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.
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