Time Machine
Pre 1914 Prose "'The Time Machine' By H.G.Wells Illustrates Life In Britain At the End Of The Victorian Era." How Far Do You Agree With This Statement? The 19th century was a time of change and revolution particularly in technology as the first car was invented and rapidly improving. "The Time Machine", by H.G. Wells was written in 1895, which was during the Victorian era. "The Time Machine" is about a time traveller who invents a machine that can travel in the future. Through the time machine the traveller learns that there is no longer a race of human beings but two species divided, the Eloi and the Morlocks. During the Victorian era came the industrial revolution which had a huge impact. Technology was rapidly improving with telephones and cars being created. However, this tended to only benefit the upper class as they could afford these common luxuries whilst the lower classes were being sacked as these machine were more beneficial and faster. Also during this time came the creation of violent tools, such as guns, which would have influenced Wells as people were using guns to threaten and abuse people. Therefore the time machine is an illustration of the Victorian era. Wells was also influenced by Darwin's theory of evolution as in his novel it is an example of how the world around him would be if the human race divided into two new species. Morlocks were the examples
The red room, the stollen bacillus and the inexperienced ghost
Knowing, Not Knowing, Humour and Irony in the short stories by HG Wells By Ruksana Kossari HG Wells was well known for writing such books as War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible man and The Island of Doctor Moreau. They were famous and unique because of his innovating idea of science fiction therefore being remembered as 'the farther of British Science Fiction'. However, he actually wrote in a number of different genres, and often wrote to explore British society. HG Wells brought stories to life by using emotive language; an example of this is...'with my hand in my pocket that held my revolver' we know this suggests the narrator is underlying fear. At the time he was alive, called now the Victorian Era, British society was dreadfully divided by class. HG Wells was a Socialist and so he wanted to show that this sort of society was not even-handed. We can see this in all of his stories that we have studied, as in each one there is a person of a higher class that needs to learn a lesson. Society was more repressed than we would expect today, they believed in control of excess emotion; being too emotional was, for a man, a sign of weakness. The Victorian British were more ready to accept the supernatural, but also living at a time of engineering advances, and the tail end of the Industrial Revolution. The three short stories we have studied are; The Stolen
Comparing and contrasting features of 5 short stories.
Comparing and contrasting features of 5 short stories The stories that are going to be compared are; The Monkey's Paw - W.W. Jacobs, The Signalman - Charles Dickens, The Red Room - H.G. Wells, The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Sir Thomas Browne and The Speckled Band: Sherlock Holmes Stories - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. These are all short stories written at around the same period as each other, yet they have some very different features; in the language used, the way in which tension is built, the point at which the tension is climaxed, the narratorial style and how the writer keeps the reader's attention throughout the story but especially towards the beginning. I am going to investigate the effectiveness of the various features. Initially The Monkey's Paw beings with a descriptive paragraph about the surroundings and the mood within the home the story is set in. It begins with a slight feeling of tension, as the weather is described to be, 'cold and wet' which is usually associated with ghost-type stories but this tension is immediately released with the 'but' and the contrast between the external conditions and the warmth and ease within Laburnam Villa - where 'the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly. The first characters introduced are the father and son who are playing an unobtrusive game of chess which links in with the atmosphere created. The game of chess is
The Time Machine by H.G Wells - What do we learn of the Eloi's and Merlock's in chapter eight? How does this reflect the society in which the author lived?
The Time Machine by H.G Wells What do we learn of the Eloi's and Merlock's in chapter eight? How does this reflect the society in which the author lived? A Scientist invents a time machine in the 19th century that enables him to travel in time. He has lots of other journeys in the story but the main one took place in the year Eight hundred and Two Thousand Seven Hundred and One. The scientist arrives back and tells people about his journey in a meeting. When the time traveler gets to his destination he finds little pretty people called Eloi's. The Morlock's take the Time Travelers time machine and with this he is forced to stay in this time. The Time Traveler discovers that the morlocks and the Eloi's in this time are very different. Later in the story he learns more about the two. He finds the time machine with the morlocks and manages to rapidly escape back to his own time. Towards the end of the story, The Time Traveler goes on another adventure. No one knows where he went or when he will return- if he ever does return. Chapter eight focuses on the Time Traveler learning more about the society in the time he has landed in. The world is beautiful, with splendid buildings. The Time Traveler goes on a walk one morning and comes across seven wells, rimmed with gold. They are by a path next to a hill. He looks down them and notices no reflection and that they are very deep.
Compare "The Red Room" by H G Wells and "Farthing House" by Susan Hill examining how the writers create suspense in the stories.
Katie Hill 1J Compare "The Red Room" by H G Wells and "Farthing House" by Susan Hill examining how the writers create suspense in the stories. "The Red Room" is a pre 20th century story and "Farthing House" was written in the 20th century. Many social changes happened after "The Red Room" was written before "Farthing House" was, and this affected how they were written. "The Red Room" has a definite Victorian style and it is a piece of typical gothic fiction, written during the industrial revolution. Before there was radio and television, novel reading privately and aloud in family circles was very common especially as a middle class leisure activity. Conditions were right for the large numbers of novels in the Victorian age, especially with the industrial revolution strengthening the position of the middle class, who made the majority of the novel reading public. Many novels were sold and read and it became very profitable for writers and also very popular for the middle class. "The Red Room" is about the nature of fear and how it affects you, it was written in 1896. In 1994 when "Farthing House" was written many changes had happened since 1896 such as the industrial revolution had been and gone, women had many more rights and reading was not as popular since television and radio had been invented. "The Red Room" is about the narrator who starts of in an apparently
Several stories in the collection show features of Gothic writing. Compare the ways in which suspense and mystery is built up and show how the settings contribute to the effects. Refer in detail to TWO or THREE stories from the collection.
GCSE English and English Literature Task 2 - Prose study (En 2 + Lit pre - 1914 prose) Coursework Task 1: Several stories in the collection show features of Gothic writing. Compare the ways in which suspense and mystery is built up and show how the settings contribute to the effects. Refer in detail to TWO or THREE stories from the collection The stories that I have chosen for my piece of coursework are: The Speckled Band and The Red Room. I have chosen these stories as they both exhibit features of gothic writing. In this essay I hope to compare the ways in which these stories build up suspense and mystery. I also hope to compare the ways in which the settings contribute to these effects. In The Speckled Band suspense is built up by the use of descriptive language, which is used from the start. At first, the suspense is finding out about a young woman who has called on Holmes with a case for him. "It seems that a young lady has arrived in a considerable state of excitement" Tension is built up here as the woman, when offered a cup of hot coffee to stop her from shivering, replies: "It is not cold which makes me shiver," ... "It is fear, Mr Holmes. It is terror." This builds up tension and mystery, as it make the reader wonder what has made this young woman quake with fear. It grips the reader and makes them read on to find out what has happened to this woman and why
How is the convention of gothic fiction used to build tension in "The Red Room" and "Monkey's Paw"
Gothic Fiction - The Red Room and The Monkey's Paw In these two stories, the Red Room and the Monkey's Paw, a convention of gothic fiction is used to build up tension to grab the reader's attention more to the story and also to create a frightening atmosphere. The cultural society of Victorian times in the United Kingdom influenced both these writers to create such frightening stories as then the idea of a ghost or haunting was an early idea at the time, people were more aware of the religious background of spirits and demons, even the fact that they could be in their very own homes! These ideas were taken in to make a good gothic fiction story by building up tension. In the Red Room, the characters have an eerie and mysterious manner as we do not know their names, we are only given description labels of each character such as "the old woman" and we do not know the narrator's name throughout the story. This is cataphoric reference, as the narrator's name is not mentioned at all which first creates a mystery to the reader, as we would want to know his name from the very start. Also the man with the withered arm keeps repeating the same warning to him, "it's your own choosing." As this saying is said over and over, it sticks to our minds that something bad may happen to the narrator, which builds up the tension, as we would want to know what would happen to the narrator
How does H.G. Wells use language in the novel "The Time Machine" to teach us about his vision of the future?
Pre- 1914 prose GCSE Coursework How does H.G. Wells use language in the novel "The Time Machine" to teach us about his vision of the future? In this essay, I'll be writing about how "The Man Who Invented Tomorrow" uses language in his novel "The Time Machine" to teach us about his incredible vision of the future. My understanding of Science Fiction is that it can be based on anyone, humans, animals etc...it can also be set anywhere, examples are schools, car parks, on the streets, etc... Science Fiction is something that is made up and not real. The key features that tell me this, are the unlogical story plot and the characters, things such as an alien trying to take over the human world, or even a zombie waking from the dead that starts to kill people. A few of the films and TV programs that represent Sci-Fi are: Star Trek, E.T, X- Files, and Star Wars. These examples often deal with people being in a spaceship, lost in space, or even an alien lost on earth. The important connection between H.G Wells and the Science-Fiction genre is that he had accurate visions of the future and he saw many things that were related to Science-Fiction, like, computers, Video Cassette Players etc... When he wrote this book, he made sure he used scientific terms for this particular piece of text, for example, "Scientific people know very well that Time is only a kind of Space. Here is a
Examine the ways in which fear and tension are built up by the writers of 'The Red Room' and 'Examination Day'
Examine the ways in which fear and tension are built up by the writers of 'The Red Room' and 'Examination Day' Two short stories titled the Red Room by H G Wells and Examination Day by Henry Slesar, have used different techniques to build up a fear and tension in their stories. The Red Room was set in the 19th century and was aimed at Victorian readers who liked ghost and mystery stories. The Red Room has a Gothic genre and therefore uses the horror tradition to build up fear. It uses settings such as dark lonely castles, churches, and old houses in Desolate or exotic locations. The readers liked to be frightened as the story developed, but they preferred the ending to be explained, therefore much of the writing in the story is detailed and explicit in order to build up fear in the readers mind. Examination day was written in the 20th century, and therefore its readers were more sophisticated. People were less frightened by Gothic detail and the supernatural, and more shocked by fear of what may happen in the future with the advancement of technology and controlling governments after world war two. This is a science fiction story and the style of writing is plain and impulsive, the fear is left to be built up in the reader's imagination. 'The Red Room' is a good example of Victorian writing which aims to scare the reader. In it a young man visits a castle to find
How does H.G. Wells use the medium of Science fiction to comment on the social conditions of his time and warn people of the future consequences? H. G. Wells, the writer of "The Time Machine" was
How does H.G. Wells use the medium of Science fiction to comment on the social conditions of his time and warn people of the future consequences? H. G. Wells, the writer of "The Time Machine" was a socialist who was very concerned about the inequality and class divisions of his time. Like Priestley in his character the Inspector in "An Inspector Calls" he is irate with the working conditions of the working class. They worked in dark factories, often in underground basements cut of from natural life. They worked in an intense labour to make money for the middle classes; in this novel Wells describes the Morlocks as an underground existence, he shows their lack of intelligence by saying, "I felt not assured of their physical and intellectually inadequacy". The Eloi are used as an over ground community representing the middle-class. Wells then uses the Eloi to show that he believes the current middle class will be like if they don't listen to his message, and then eventually all mankind will die as they are weak, helpless creatures who cannot change the face of their life's because they have the "Intellectual level of one of our five-year olds" and it is run by the Morlocks as they eventually kill them. Wells uses the medium of Science Fiction, a pessimistic vision of the future, to introduce his idea of the future and time travel to try and warn his time of the future. At the