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How The Eloi And The Morlocks Differ

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In the novel The Time Machine by H.G. Wells the Time Traveller has some theories about how the Eloi and the Morlocks have evolved.The Time Traveller built a time machine and it rocketed him into the year 802,701 AD. He arrives at a place with small humanoid creatures called Eloi. The Eloi are are frail and peaceful. After exploring the area his time machine disappears. Later on in the night he meets the Morlocks, who are ape like creatures. The Eloi live above ground and the Morlocks live underground. Where they live kind metaphorically speaking defines their social status due to the Eloi being upper class and the Morlocks being lower class. Charles Darwin was a British scientist who proposed the theory of evolution, which states that all

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