Special Words from Time Machine

Words:

1. Grotesque; Disturbing; ugly and misshapen. "'Great shapes like big machines rose out of the dimness, and cast grotesque black shadows, in which dim spectral Morlocks sheltered form the glare.'"(279)
2. Discordantly; out of tune; harsh in sound. "'I shivered violently, and shouted again- rather discordantly.'"(280)
3. Scintillating;  exciting; vivacious. "'And amid all these scintillating points of light one bright planet shone kindly and steadily like the face of an old friend.'"(286)

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The Time Machine-By H.G. Wells

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells was about a man from the 19^th century that traveled through time in his time machine. The Time Traveler, for that is what he was known as, traveled to the year 802,701 A.D. and when he arrived there, he was in the same place he was before he left. While he was scoping out the area, he ran into some strange little creatures called the “Eloi”.  After The Time Traveler observed the Eloi, he came to his own first hypotheses that they are communists. He studied them further and began to see what they do all day. Well actually the Eloi were very lazy people that were afraid of the dark. All they did all day, every day was eat, sleep, and bathe. The Eloi were also asexual, which meant that they all looked the same which supported his hypothesis of the communist society. It was understandable that the Time Traveler thought that the Eloi were Communist until he met the Morlock. Once he met the “Morlock” he learned that they were pretty much the complete opposite of the Eloi. First of all the Eloi had fair skin, curly blond hair, and had little suction cup type instruments on their hands. Whereas the Morlock were pale skinned, strong, smart creatures that hunted the Eloi. The Eloi were afraid of the dark because the Morlock came out at night and hunted them. The Eloi were weak and the Morlock were strong. The Eloi were lazy and the Morlock were hard working. The Eloi and Morlock were opposites that lived in the same society. I think that is why Wells changed his perspective. The Eloi lived in a Communist society as Eloi. But the Eloi and the Morlock together were not a Communist society. That is what Wells was saying.

The Time Machine -- By H. G. Wells

          The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells is about a 19th Century man who discovers a way to travel through time. On his first journey through time, he goes to 802,701 A.D. He is still in London; in fact, he is in the same place he was when he first departed on his journey to the future. Shortly after arriving, out of nowhere, a flock of little creatures, called Eloi surround him and call him the sun god. After observing them briefly and seeing the “great hall” where they all eat and sleep, he first assumes that they are communists. Communism means “a theory or system of social organization in which all property is owned by the community and each person contributes and receives according to their ability and needs" (OED). He observes that the Eloi do not seem to be working, they all eat and sleep together, and they use no money. During the time when H.G. Wells wrote this novel, Russia was becoming a communist country. Much of the world, and particularly Great Britain, feared this new political approach and therefore disavowed everything about it. Some people however found this political approach to be an amiable, if Utopian, form of political organization. This is why the time traveler's first instinct is to think that the Eloi are communists. He considers the Eloi to be the natural consequences of a communist world view. At this point, he decides to feel existentially frought about these "communists." He notices that the Eloi are lazy and rather stupid or simplistic. He thinks that communism leads to such laziness and weak-mindedness. Later in the book, the time-traveler, who one assumes represents Wells' views, changes his opinion about what may have caused humans to evolve into the Eloi. These, however, are his first impressions.

          As he wanders through this “utopia,” without a cicerone, he stumbles upon a well, which eventually causes him to rethink his initial evaluation. When he drops something into the well, it sucks it down. This inescapable “sucking” eventually becomes an interesting metaphor for the time traveler who realizes that the underground dwellers are unable to escape from the lives they’ve been born into as workers. Throughout the novella, the time traveler has seen white ape like creatures that he later realizes are known as Morlocks. They dwell underground and come up out of the wells in the middle of the night (this may also be a metaphor for how H.G. Wells gets ideas for his novels…. Maybe they come out of him in the middle of the night). As he tries to understand how the Morlocks relate to the Eloi, he crafts a theory that, somewhat like our own democracy, there are “Haves and Have nots” in the future. He sees his own world becoming more and more socially and economically stratified and he thinks the situation with the Morlocks and Eloi is an exaggerated version of this:

"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 for 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 labor” (273).

          As the time traveler sees more and more of how the Eloi and the Morlock interact, he becomes more certain of his “haves and have nots” theory. He believes that the Eloi are the “Haves” and the Morlocks are the “have nots.” The Eloi have become weak-minded from having too much of everything too easily and the Morlocks having nothing, but constant work, have become vengeful and malevolent, and now stalk and feed off the Eloi, literally.

Time Machine

Mason Unthank

May 9th, 2014

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      In the Story “Time Machine,” by H.G. Wells,  the man known as “the time traveler” journeys into the far future. His occidental self notices an evolution of man known as Eloi. who look quite a bit different, they have blonde curly hair, have fair skin, and have tiny tentacle-like suckers on their hands. The Eloi are very indolent, arrogant, blissful, and afraid of the dark. The time traveler presumes that the Eloi live in a communist society, because he doesn't see anyone working, though the Eloi of clothes, shoes and food. One night, the time traveler walks in while the Eloi are sleeping, and when he startles them they seem to express an extreme fear. He does not seem to know why, until the near future. While he was walking outside, he noticed a series of deep wells. He lights a match, looks inside, and sees another subdivision of the human race, called Morlocks. The Morlocks live underground, come out at night, and do all the work for the Eloi. The Morlocks have pale skin, are strong, smart, and hunt the Eloi, which is why the Eloi are afraid of the dark. This makes the time traveler switch his prospective from a communist society to a society of “haves” and “have-nots,” which is more of a capitalistic view. So, while the Eloi live in a utopian heaven, the Morlocks live in a dystopian hell.

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells is about a man known as "The Time Traveler" who builds a time machine and travels into the future. He travels into the year of 802,701 AD. During his travel to the future he meets a race of people called the Eloi. The Eloi are asexual and very, very indolent. The Eloi always eat fruit and play. They also do everything together they never really and place and never leave one another. The other kind of people called the Morlock live underground. The Morlock and Eloi don’t exactly like each other. The Morlock are the opposite they are rarely seen in the day time but they are always out at night. Later the Eloi enslave the Morlock so that they will make them clothes and shoes. The Morlock live under ground in a city and the Eloi live up on the land. The place where the Morlock live probably represents hell and up where the Eloi live probably represents heaven.  The time traveler comes back from this time and place and tells his friends about it. He later goes off again in his time machine and never returns. The Time Travelers first impression of the Eloi is that they live in a communist society. The Eloi are always seen frolicking and playing during the day.   They are very lazy and do not work at all. They eat fruit so that they do not have to hunt.  There are no signs of aggressive behavior.  Each Eloi is of the same status. They all slept in the same area called the Great Hall. Parts of the community where falling apart and broken because the Eloi became so week, frail and lazy the society didn’t advance. He realizes that the Eloi have clothes and shoes and determines that somebody has to be making these goods because the Eloi don’t work. Then he comes to the conclusion that the Eloi have enslaved the Morlock. For payback of this the Morlock start eating the Eloi. Even though the Time Traveler went 802,000 years into the future there were still conflicts between the human races.

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.