The Evolution Of Social Classes In The Time Machine By H. G. Wells

In Mantsios article “Class in America” he states that Americans hold beliefs that blind them to social classes, citizens in America have four myths they use to ensure talk about the classes never take place. America has the largest gap between rich and poor in the world, and the lower class has no means to an end they can’t afford health care or quality education. The upper class avoids talk about social class the most; wealthy people don’t want to admit that they are better off than others. While the lower class sees how much better off others are than them, but they still don’t like to label themselves. I agree with Mantsios that most Americans avoid talk about classes although I am not one of them. Also I

James Loewen begins his argument by establishing that students are leaving high school without knowing the basic inner workings of the class structure. He goes on to attribute some of the ignorance concerning class structure to have stemmed from a lack of labor history and class system information in high school history books. Loewen continues to describe the shortcomings of history books on topics such as social stratification, the realities of social classes in colonial America, and social class inequalities. He then goes into great detail about the continuous inequalities between those in higher and lower social class. Overall, the author of this piece argues that a person's social class influences too many aspects of their life. He claims

Children from the lower class families were sent to work in mills and coal mines. Middle class children’s lives weren’t any better they had it just as bad as the lower class. The middle class children would always help out at the home and on the farm but as society became more industrialized their working conditions changed domestic jobs were becoming scarce which forced the children to search for work in unfamiliar places outside of the home. Textile mills would employ many children the mills were so profitable they would run 24 hours a day resulting in many children working night

In “The Jungle” Upton Sinclair writes about how back in the 1870’s, also known as the gilded age, there was lots of poverty and depression because lack of jobs and money. There is many themes such as, Poverty, depression, and Irony. Most of the people back then were either poor or rich there was no middle class. Someone considered middle class would be a robber or a thief. One example of depression is Jurgis moves to the us to live his American dream life but when he gets here he discovers it’s not what he thought it was.

• Be able to use the terms variation, adaptation, natural selection, and evolution as they apply to this and

In the first chapter, Coyne discusses the basic concept outline of evolution, and brings clarity to the common misconceptions thought and said about how the science works, and the large misuse of the word theory. The first chapter of this book also defines very carefully each of the main hypothesis of evolutionary theory. Which stands in dissimilarity to many other treatments of evolution, which all have a propensity to confuse some readers by integrating different meanings of the word. Coyne also divides Darwinism into six components. They are: evolution which means change over time, gradualism which is a policy of slower change rather than sudden change or a revolution, speciation which is the evolutionary process where a new biological species

Looking at the article “Class Matters” by Peter Sacks, Social classes are divisions in society, which are based on social and economic status. People from a similar social class have a distinct level of power and wealth within a given community or country. The most common social groupings, based on status, are the upper, the middle, and the lower social classes. The precise considerations of determining these hierarchical social categories vary from time to time. Many researchers have come up with different perspectives as far as social stratification is concerned. According to Karl Marx, social stratification is a result of one's position in the hierarchy of factors of production. Therefore, social stratification is a manifestation of financial muscle within society further creating the divide within social groupings as seen through educational divides and inequalities that lie in many aspects of life.

The Eloi were one of the 2 species that humans evolved to in Wells’ story. At first, they seem very content. They share everything with one another: food, shelter, and the land. There is no industry or pollution. "Communism,"(58) the Time Traveler says to himself at one point. This all seems marvelous, but the desire to learn and gain knowledge has also gone. “A queer thing I soon discovered about my little hosts, and that was their lack of interest.” (55) The Eloi, after so many years, have failed to continue to discover and create new things. They are simple and are not capable of thinking critically, or even having a sophisticated language. The Eloi are afraid of the darkness, and The Time Traveler later finds out why: the Murlocks.

Many middle class families realized that many workers had absolutely nothing and were sick from lack of food, warmth, and shelter. Louis Alcott’s “Little Women”, represented a middle class family giving away their Christmas breakfast because of neighbors that were starving and freezing. This recognizes the comfort that was provided in being a middle class, but did not have the luxuries of the wealthy. The middle class could purchase enough food for one meal but kept a tight budget(source 2). The middle class had exemplary jobs and were payed a comfortable sum of money, nevertheless, the poorest unskilled laborers had to work in repugnant

H. G. Wells’ novella The Time Machine is a story about the price for a life of luxury. Through his writing, he warns society of what could happen if they continued the path they were on. Arriving in the future, thanks to the time machine that Wells created, readers observe a world where society has split into two species. In Victorian England, there was a fear residing in the upper class that the working class would engage in an uprising and throw them from power. This brought the desire for security, which is what the Eloi hold in the year 802,701. Degeneration occurs when people live in a society that requires little work and there is dependency on others for food, shelter, and clothing. No physical labour means extinction of the survival

Throughout the Fifties, mass society started to rule in the United States. The 1950’s is one known as the Eisenhower era. As the Supreme Allied Commander in Western Europe throughout World War II, General Dwight D. Eisenhower headed the compels that battled a frantic battle against the Axis powers. The Fifties picked up a notoriety for being a serene time. Residents moved to the suburbs and TV began to take charge. The novel American Social Classes in the 1950’s by Vance Packer investigates of class conduct of America in the 1950’s so students can explore.

Life can at times seem bad, even in the lives of some of the most prestigious, rich, popular people in the world. Bad hair, lack of sleep, abundance of homework, and an absence of money have the tendency to put a damper on some people's days, among other things. Too many times, though, in today's society things are taken for granted. Imagine not having a place to sleep, having no means of education, or having all hard-earned funds taken by the government, not even leaving enough to feed the family. This is how it was for Englanders in the 1800s. The condition of the working-class in 19thcentury England was, without a doubt, disgusting and miserable. The circumstances were spiraling out of control and the working class was

Darwinism is a theory of evolution developed by Charles Darwin also called Darwinian Theory. Darwin utilizes Thomas Malthus’ principle of exponential population growth to debate the possibility of infinite growth of population sizes which is tested by the limitations of geography and natural resources that makes it impossible for an infinite number of beings to survive. The limitation in resources results in species experience a “struggle for existence,” creating a survival competition. In this theory, Darwin stated that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual 's ability to compete, survive, and reproduce. Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species in 1859 which argued that species evolved to get better all the time. Some people used his theory to argue that members of the elite or height of the social ladder were superior to the working class and impoverished due Darwin 's "survival of the fittest", which is considered Social Darwinism. In one of the earliest examples of science fiction, The Time Machine, H.G. Wells’ introduces Social Darwinism along with the theory of evolution.

According to Marx's account of history, every class is naturally unsound, and predestined for ultimate destruction due to its internal discrepancies. They will then bring rise to a new class, which has settled the discrepancies of its precursor but retains it own, which will cause its eventual passing.

But in mysterious state of despair the other group, the Morlocks, live in a huge underground world. Wells expressed the theory of evolution by making the Eloi, distant descendants of the wealthy but because they didn't use their brains or muscles, they were very weak and had lost most signs of human intelligence. However the Morlocks descended from the labourers and the working class. Both species had adapted to their environment. The Eloi were small and very weak, as they didn't work at all, they also had very short attention spans, as they didn't pay attention to things for very long.