Saturday, June 1, 2019

The Relationship Between Eloi and the Morlocks in The Time Machine by H

The Relationship Between Eloi and the Morlocks in The Time Machine by H.G. Wells The Time Machine was inventively write as a social critique of the dainty Era in 1895 by Herbert George Wells, the father of modern science fiction. Wells economic consumptiond the novel to permit the messages across on social and political problems at the time when London was on top of the world. The novel criticized mainly on communism, imperialism, capitalism, as well as Social Darwinism. The Time Machine was an adventurous science fiction novel about a Time Traveler, the inventor of a time machine who travelled to the year 802,701 A.D. In the course of his journey, he saw the degeneration and the separation of mankind through the two evolved species, the Eloi and the Morlocks, in which their relationship and their significance would be explained in this essay. When the Time Machine landed in the future, the Elois were the first creature that the Time Traveler had come across. Their name was from the imitation of the word Elite and they were the evolved upper classes, the protagonist, who lived to a higher place the ground. The Elois were described as being beautiful, peaceful, and graceful. They had their own language in which the Time Traveler described as having a strange and very sweet and runny tongue, (Wells, 25). The Elois only lived on fruits since other kinds of cattle or animals became extinct after they ate each other. According to the Time Traveler, the Elois were small and weak as if they were ache from tuberculosis. Even though the Eloi seemed to be careless and fearless during the day, they were afraid of the dark in which they called Dark Night. Du... ...the way. The Time Machine definitely gives an eye-opening experience for the good deal who were unaware of the result from the separations of the classes in the society especially the problems which were caused by capitalism and imperialism. Through the Time Traveler, H.G. Wells described his grieved to think how brief the dream of humane intellect had been. (Wells, 81). He believed that it committed suicide along the process of degeneration in which he powerfully described in this novel. He successfully criticized the Victorian Era in a way that was entertaining, exciting, and educating. Even if Wells meant for the novel to criticize the certain era, it can still be classically and universally use since this problems still last to these days. Bibliography Wells, H.G. The Time Machine. London J.M. Dent, 2002.

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