Critical Analysis of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Critical Analysis of "The Time Machine" by H.G. Wells
The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells, is a science fiction book about a man who travels into the far future wanting to know what our civilization turns into. He is shocked to see that the people have evolved into two different and completely different races. The Time Traveler, as the book calls him, first thought that the people lived in perfect harmony and peace, but later learns that that is not true.
After building a time machine, the Time Traveler takes a journey to the year 802,701. He gets out of the time machine and is greeted by the people. He finds them to be beautiful creatures, but he also notices that they act like five or six year olds. He tries to talk to them but they could only understand very simple sentences. He followed them around and was puzzled by how the only things they did all day were dance, play, eat, and sleep. He wanted to know how they were able to survive without working. A few days past before he decided to go back to the time machine. He went back to the spot where it disappeared and found it gone. After yelling and screaming for his machine, he learns that there is another race of humans and they are the ones that took the machine.
The other civilization the Time Traveler found, were very different from the first. These live underground, in the dark, and are very hairy. Soon after watching them, he figured out how everything in this strange world worked. The hairy creatures, known as the Morlocks, were the evil ones who supplied the Eloi (the kind and gentle people) with food, water and clothes. They only did that to fatten them up so they could eat them. So, the Time Traveler had the challenge of getting his machine back from them. After finding weapons, he went down to their cave, fought them, and returned to his time. Upon arriving, he is greeted by four or five guests that he invited over before the travel. He tells the story to them all and they are shocked and left his house in disbelief. One visitor came back wanting to know a little more about his journey. When he got there, the Time Traveler excused himself and travels back into...