'The Time Machine Essay'
How was the Time traveller disappointed with the future and the farther future?
The Time Traveller expected the people of the future, and their technology to be greatly ahead of ours:
'I had always anticipated that the people of the year
Eight Hundred and Two Thousand odd would be
Incredibly in front of us in knowledge, art, everything'
He was discouraged to find creatures, as the Time Traveller says 'on the intellectual level of one of our five-year-old children'. The Time Traveller was staggered over the difference between what he expected and what he was witnessing. He must have found it very disappointing that these fragile fools were his descendants. The Eloi didn't take care of their buildings as many of them were 'very badly broken or weather worn'. This showed that they had lost their carpentry skills and their liking of architecture. They also had no books, which would have frustrated him as he had written a book on physical optics. Seeing as books are learning for the future, no books, no learning. He even thought at one point that he had built the Time Machine in vain.
The Time Traveller, himself being an inventor, was saddened to find that there was no fire in the future. Without they couldn't melt metal, which was needed for inventions. 'the art of fire making had been forgotten on earth'. This book was written at the time of the industrial revolution and without fire it would not have been possible for it to have occurred. It must have seemed a total waste of effort to him building the Time Machine as he didn't see anything which pleased him while Time Travelling.
How was the Time traveller disappointed with the future and the farther future?
The Time Traveller expected the people of the future, and their technology to be greatly ahead of ours:
'I had always anticipated that the people of the year
Eight Hundred and Two Thousand odd would be
Incredibly in front of us in knowledge, art, everything'
He was discouraged to find creatures, as the Time Traveller says 'on the intellectual level of one of our five-year-old children'. The Time Traveller was staggered over the difference between what he expected and what he was witnessing. He must have found it very disappointing that these fragile fools were his descendants. The Eloi didn't take care of their buildings as many of them were 'very badly broken or weather worn'. This showed that they had lost their carpentry skills and their liking of architecture. They also had no books, which would have frustrated him as he had written a book on physical optics. Seeing as books are learning for the future, no books, no learning. He even thought at one point that he had built the Time Machine in vain.
The Time Traveller, himself being an inventor, was saddened to find that there was no fire in the future. Without they couldn't melt metal, which was needed for inventions. 'the art of fire making had been forgotten on earth'. This book was written at the time of the industrial revolution and without fire it would not have been possible for it to have occurred. It must have seemed a total waste of effort to him building the Time Machine as he didn't see anything which pleased him while Time Travelling.