Eloi VS. Morlocks

Mason Unthank

April 16^th, 2014

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In the story “The Time Machine,” by H.G. Wells the Eloi live in a city, which is a bit dilapidated. This gives it the feel of a neglected Garden of Eden. There are probably many reasons for this. The Eloi are very indolent (physically and mentally lazy,) and don’t do any work. They would much rather be playing outside than working on rebuilding an entire city. The Eloi enslaved the Morlocks so they could do the hard labor for them, reducing the amount of time they have to work. The main course of an Eloi’s day is waking up, eating playing, bathing, sleeping, and so on and so forth. The Morlocks however differ. The Morlocks in “The Time Machine” are a much more versatile species. They can build, are strong, and smart. When “the time traveler” enters one of the wells, he notices series of tunnels and elaborate machinery. This gives the Morlock world the feel of a well-organized hell. The Morlocks use their muscles to build and do work for the Eloi, their brains to design machinery and plan attacks and are just overall a better species for the type of world they live in. The Eloi and the Morlocks were both supposed to have evolved from humans, but when looking at their differences, this can be hard to believe. 

Time Machine Defintitions

Acacia: A small tree or shrub belonging to the genus Acacia, of the mimosa family, having clusters of small yellow flowers.

Acacia trees are one of the giraffe’s main food sources.

Procure: To obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means.

Bob was lost and hungry, so he decided to procure some food.

Imperceptible: Something not capable of being perceived by the senses.

The lighting was so poor it was imperceptible.

Brontosaurus: (Animals) any very large herbivorous quadrupedal dinosaur of the genus Apatosaurus, common in North America during Jurassic times, having a long neck and long tail: suborder Sauropoda.

The brontosaurus grazed on the taller trees with the help of its long neck.

Words to Research from the Time Machine

Wane: To appear to become thinner of less full. “The moon was on the wane: each night there was a longer interval of darkness” (282)

Dexterous: Having or showing a great skill or cleverness: showing dexterity. “All the buildings and trees seemed easily practicable to such dexterous climbers as the Morlocks, to judge by their wells, must be.” (283)

  Aperture: A hole or a small opening in something. “Swinging myself in, I found it was the aperture of a narrow horizontal tunnel in which I could lie down and rest” (278)

 Hermetically: Closed tightly so that no air can go in or out. “I found it in a sealed jar, that by chance, I suppose, had been really hermetically sealed” (294)

Time Machine Research Words :3

The word “interminable” means endless, annoying and hard to bare. They use this word in The Time Machine when the time traveler goes off into his ‘interminable’ voyage. “So that it was the Psychologist who sent forth the model Time Machine on its interminable voyage.” The word unfathomable means too deep or impossible to be measured. “Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.” The word Steatite means a soft heavy compact variety of talc having a soapy feel; used to make hearths, tabletops and ornaments. “In another place was a vast array of idols – Polynesian, Mexican, Grecian, Phoenician, every country on earth I should think. And here, yielding to an irresistible impulse, I wrote my name upon the nose of a steatite [soapstone] monster from South America that particularly took my fancy.” 

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.