The Time Machine - Argumentative Essay

The Time machine by H.G Wells imagines what it might be like to travel into the future. Wells presents two creatures in the text that has evolved during the time. These creatures are the Eloi and the Morlocks. Even though the Eloi and the Morlocks both have human traits, the text suggests that the Eloi are more human than the Morlocks because of their body form and thinking.

He focuses on the struggle of human beings to achieve their goals by both transcending and re-creating the past. Yet humans prove themselves unable to move beyond the past.

The author develops the theme of progress halts when conflicts and challenges disappear through the characters when the Time Traveler first discovers the Eloi. The text states, “‘A queer thing I soon discovered about my little hosts, and that was they would come to me with eager cries of astonishment, like children, but like children, they would soon stop examining me and wander away after some other toy’” (Wells 43). This proves that the theme is developed through the characters because the Eloi are so simple minded and have not made any progress as a species since they have no challenges (except the Morlocks).

In the beginning, the Time Traveller’s fear of how humanity has advanced pushes him to go exploring in the future. “‘But presently a fresh series of impressions grew up in my mind—a certain curiosity and therewith a certain dread—until at last took complete possession of me. What strange developments of humanity, what wonderful advances upon our rudimentary civilization,

The last line of the Time Machine by H.G. Wells really summarizes the moral lesson of the novel. Although it is not always experienced by the time traveler, 100 percent of the time, the protagonist has experienced it more than enough for it to stand

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Wells iconic novel, The Time Machine, fear is one of the most relatable, and -not oddly enough- most commonly used theme in even modern literature, today. Wells uses the “Unknown” to support the theme of fear in a variety of ways: from the Time Traveller’s fear of the future and its inhabitants, to the fearful cycle of wants and needs from Morlock to Eloi. Each scenario Wells introduces over the length of the novel shows a different way to look at fear, and the best example of this is the Time Traveller’s apparent fear of being trapped in this unfamiliar and ultimately unknown world during the year of 802,701, A.D. As the Time Traveller finally realises what has become of the world and himself, he is enveloped in fear, and he quotes, “At once, like a lash across the face, came the possibility of losing my own age, of being left helpless in this strange new world. The bare thought of it was an actual physical sensation. I could feel it grip me at the throat and stop my breathing” (“The Time

The world is advancing so rapidly today, it seems that it will never stop growing in knowledge and complexity. In the novel “The Time Machine” by H.G. Wells, The Time Traveler, as Wells calls him, travels hundreds of thousands of years into the future through time. He arrives at a world that, at first glimpse, is peaceful and clear of any worries. As The Time Traveler explores the world, he discovers that the human race has evolved into 2 distinct forms. Although the world appeared to be the Garden of Eden, it was, in reality, the Garden of Evil. Wells uses three aspects of the futuristic world to illustrate this: the setting, the Eloi, and the Murlocks.

In their writings Katherine Boo and Doris Pilkington described the challenges faced by two very different families in two very different societies. In the excerpt from Behind The Beautiful Forevers Katherine Boo shares the story of a Muslim boy named Abdul, the challenges of his family as he works to get them out of the slums of India. In the excerpt from Rabbit Proof Fence Doris Pilkington tells of Kundilla an elder in the Aboriginal tribe describing their lives before and after the white raiders attack.

In relation to time, Mulisch demonstrates that wars and hidden emotions of the past prevail into a future that is not clear: “To dynamic personalities, the present is a ship that drives its bow through the rough seas of the future. To more passive ones it is rather like a raft drifting along with the tide” (151). No matter of whether the past takes a toll at a passive or active personage, no matter of whether you are controlling the boat in the “rough seas” or just passively admiring the “tide” and allowing it to control your path, the mirage of perfection in the future is not attainable without a resolution of the

G. Wells was writing The Time Machine, England was in the fin de siècle. This time was described as ‘an epoch of endings and beginnings’ (Ledger and Luckhurst pg xiii). The Victorian era ended and the Modern era began creating ‘a time fraught with anxiety and with an exhilarating sense of possibility’ (Ledger and Luckhurst pg xiii). The fin de siècle sparked debate regarding civilization’s future questioning if humanity would advance or ultimately decline. Cultural degeneration grew to become a fear in the people of Victorian England. It is evident that Wells used this fear in his description of the Eloi, the degenerative upper class. This species of human was a product of years of luxury; beautiful yet useless. The Time Traveller told his guests, ‘Man had been content to live in ease and delight upon the labours of his fellow man, had taken Necessity as his watchword and excuse, and in the fullness of time Necessity had come home to him’ (Wells 62). Here, Wells is presenting the fact that this futurological world was exactly what society received. Being one of the first practitioners of the science fiction genre, Wells wrote a novella that was a political commentary on a dystopia. With the statement ‘Even now, does not an East-end worker live in such artificial conditions as practically to be cut off from the natural surface of the earth’ (Wells 48) he connected the present to a pessimistic view of the future. The purpose of this novella is not to give the reader a

The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to tow things, to eternity itself, and to that point of

Even though the government was strict many people still rebelled against them. For instance Julia got chocolate from the black market and she also has had sex with hundreds of party members. This proves how the people were still able to find pleasure but eventually they would get caught by the thought police. Who are basically the police of Oceania and watch everything the people do. They are the ones who catch the people who rebel and then torture them until they understand to listen to Big Brother and all three slogans. Later on when the people get brainwashed and start agreeing with the Party they are killed.

Argumentative Essay “Thousands of teens commit suicide each year in the United States. In fact, suicide is the third leading cause of death for 15- to 24-year-olds.” (healthychildren.org) In the novel, Where Things Come Back, the author John Whaley highlights the morality issues of suicide along with how friendships have a measure of control to one's feelings.

There is a general theme in this story of how living in the past can lead to not being prepared for the future, and it is visited numerous times throughout