Time Machine- H. G. Wells

Time Machine

"The Time Machine", by H. G. Wells, is about a man from London who builds a time machine. When he travels in time, he ends up in a Utopian place in the year of eight hundred and two thousand seven hundred and one. Filling up the future were "pretty little people that inspired confidence-- a graceful gentleness, a certain childlike ease."(244) He found out soon after that the people were called Eloi. The Time Traveler tried to tell the Eloi that he was from the future by pointing to the sun. The tiny people induced that he came from the sun in a thunderstorm, gave him flowers, and took him to a big house, which was fine with the curious Time Traveler. Later, the Time Traveler thinks deeper about these "Eloi's" and realizes that they all might be communists!

"Looking round, with a sudden thought, from a terrace on this I rested for a while, I realized that there were no small houses to be seen. 'Communism', I said to myself."(250)
He also realizes that the Eloi are asexual, meaning that they all look the same, boy or girl. He comes to conclude that, with these hints, that they are communists. Soon the Eloi become bored with him and continue their everyday life, which was like luxury. All the did was eat, sleep, and bathe. The Time-Traveler does some exploring and finds spider-like humans during the night go down a well. When he sees the difference between those creatures and the Eloi, he thinks he should rethink his strategy about communism.

"About London, for instance, perhaps half the prettier country is shut in against intrusion. And this same widening gulf will make that exchange between class and class, that promotion by intermarriage which at present retards the splitting fo our species along the lines of social stratification, less and less frequent. So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing  pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-Nots; the Workers getting continually adapted to the conditions of their labour."(273)

He thinks that the Eloi's are the Haves, living comfortably and able to have anything they need, and the other creatures the Have-Nots, working underground in order to survive and not being able to have anything they want but to work for the anything they want. I think that the Time Traveler thinks everything that the Eloi's have must come from somewhere and, thinking that there is tunneling under the wells there must be factories and such down there and that is where the Have-Nots must work, acquiring the stuff the Haves have. This means that there he begins to think there is a division between the "race" of the people inhabiting the new world so, instead of communism, there is a little bit of capitalism instead.