The Timetraveller

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Lizzy Cowell                        English Coursework                        10/En2

Time Machine

        The Time Machine is a book that was written and published in 1895

        H G Wells wants us to compare the Morlocks with the crab-like creatures because he wants to show what will happen to humans when they evolve. Wells wanted to scare people. In this extract the time-traveller carries on ‘moving on a hundred years’ He could be doing this to satisfy his own curiosity that this is not the ends of human life. Wells makes sure the time-traveller goes back to Victorian society to share what he has found because he is trying to implant the idea of change into the readers mind. This agrees with H G Wells ideas and could suggest that he is trying to warn the reader. This could also show that he is trying to scare the reader.

        You could compare the book to current films like ‘Day After Tomorrow’ because it deals with current issues. ‘Day After Tomorrow’ talks about a current issue of global warming. When ‘Time Machine’ was written there were many theories about evolution. For instance, the time-traveller goes forward in time and expects the world to get better; this could go with the issues that Darwin and his theory of evolution were raising in Victorian society at the time. The word ‘desolation’ shows H G Wells agreement with Huxley’s theory of entropy and decay.

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        When the time-traveller goes forward in time, what he finds is not what he expected. The time-traveller expects everything/everyone to have evolved. What he finds is H G Wells view on the future-entropy and decay. When the traveller arrives in the future his first assumption is that the Eloi is the upper-class and the Morlocks are their ‘slaves’. This is a very capitalist idea and could easily relate to Victorian times.

        In the Time Machine, when the traveller is ‘looking around again’ he has a sense of confusion about what is happening. The word ‘again’ suggests that he has already ...

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