The Time Machine Fear

“We do not fear the unknown. We fear what we think about the unknown.” Is a quote from Teal Swan. This idea is incorporated into a lot of director’s movies, however, Tim Burton, a creator of many famous movies, would probably have one of the best understandings of this idea. This is through Burton’s constant use of ideas about the unknown in many of his films. Yet, these ideas of fearing the unknown and curiosity of the unknown are especially prominent in Burton’s films such as The Corpse Bride and Edward Scissorhands. There are a great amount of techniques Burton uses to convey these ideas of the unknown, but Burton typically uses techniques such as some sort of misfit protagonist that is different than most people and a judgmental

The idea of fear of various characters is portrayed in the film using a variety of techniques.

In the year 1625, Francis Bacon, a famous essayist and poet wrote about the influences of fear on everyday life. He stated, “Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other” (Essays Dedication of Death). Clearly, external surroundings affect perceptions of fear as well as human nature in general. Although C.S. Lewis published the novel, Out of the Silent Planet, over three centuries after Bacon wrote his theory on fear, Lewis similarly portrayed external surrounding to manipulate perceptions of fear. From the first chapter of the novel, Lewis revealed fear to be a weakness that leads to ignorance. It was this

Every single person in this world fears something, and there is magnificent amount of different types of fear that people know of. Each type of fear has a different name. For example, fear of change is called metathesiophobia, and fear of darkness is called Achluophobia. Fear can be not only a phobia but in a novel it can be represented as theme. One of the examples of a novel that has a lot of fear in it is The Chrysalids by John Wyndham which took place in the future, years after a nuclear holocaust has devastated large areas of the world. In that novel Wyndham explores many themes throughout the text, the main one being fear. The existence of fear in this novel is a critical factor in the unfolding of the plot. Most of the problems that occurred in John Wyndham’s tale happen because of fear. Overall, this is shown through everyone’s fear of being different, fear helped to develop Petra’s character, and by everyone thinking that if a baby was born as a blasphemy, the women is always the one who is responsible for that, but never the man.

“Fear is one of the persistent hounds of hell that dog the footsteps of the poor, the

In The Tent Peg, one feels the urge to comprehend the unknown because of their curiosity, greed and desire to attain ultimate knowledge. The fear of the unknown overwhelms people to such an extent that their actions, beliefs, and behaviour are hindered by it. What is it about the unknown that is fearful? Van Herk demonstrates that an individual is intimidated and threatened by the unknown, hence, giving rise to one’s survival instincts. The fear of the unknown is displayed through the desire to colonize, dominate and conquer another. Throughout the novel, characters discover that fear is relative and does not exist by itself.

of man on the planet. Fears are of many kinds—fear of objects, fear of people, fear of the future,

We all fear what we don’t know. Transformations are an important trait in everyday life however when an unknown factor is present, fear can ultimately become an outcome of this equation. An author may use transformations as a tool to help frighten readers by providing an unknown element causing a feeling of uncertainty to pass through the reader. Many authors use this technique as a way to spike surprise or fear throughout their stories, this technique can be seen in multiple short stories and novels including Wild Things “critique,” The Invisible Man, and “Where Is Here.” Transformations are extremely useful when providing fear do to the overbearing unknown feature now added.

One of the greatest fears of all time is uncertainty and fear of the unknown. As a result, Brooks and McCarthy frighten the reader by highlighting this common fear in The Road and World War Z. For instance, McCarthy chooses not to specify the cause of the cataclysm that destroyed most of the civilization. Instead, he illustrates the bleakness of the landscape by describing the “soft ash”(1), the implacable darkness, and the “days [being] more gray each one what had gone before”(1). Without a clear story of the cause of the apocalypse, McCarthy lets the reader imagine different possibilities as to what exactly led to this horrible disaster,

Fear of the unknown can impact people’s judgement and decision, which ones may end up doing horrible acts or suffer from hysteria. In Lord of the Files, a bunch of six to twelve years old boys are left in an isolated and uninhabited island. In the beginning of the book, the youngers boys, refer to littluns in the book, are scared and one of the boy with a mulberry-colored birthmark on face mentions he saw a snake-thing and later says it was a beastie in the forest. They do not know where the beastie come from, some of them say it is from the sea and some of them say it come in the dark. The older boys did not believe that at first, but after the boy with a birthmark on face went missing, they started to panic.

There’s this terrifying feeling you get about something that looks human but is superhuman. Its like zombies, they look like us (at first) and then they try to eat us. At this point the saying “we fear what we don’t know” comes into play, because we don’t know what they are or how they got here. This makes us very scared because we feel like we have no control over the situation. Just like in Dracula, they feared him because they couldn’t stop him, he was the overpowering force.

Time traveling, a concept known to modern man as inconceivable, but in The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells, this fathom of human fantasy has come to life. Wells entangles a unique blend of contrasting characters, conflicts of capitalist verses laborer divisions, and foreshadowing of the destruction of humanity to seem together this novel of visionary proportions. "The Time Machine is a bleak and sober vision of man's place in the Universe."(McConnell Pg.1581)

In The Time Machine, the characters all seem to have rights similar to the ones in the U.S. like: the freedom of speech and the right to peacefully assemble. For instance, every Thursday the Time Traveler has a meeting or get-together of some sort, meaning they can have peaceful assemblies, and they talk about many subjects, meaning that either they have rules about what they are allowed to talk about that don't apply to what they are doing, or they have the freedom of speech. I believe that both groups have rights similar to those of U.S. citizens, and that they probably have other ones besides the ones mentioned before, because with every society, there has to be structure and rules holding it together.

He tells them about an evolution of the human species called the Eloi. These creatures take him in after his machine stops at their time. The time traveller believes that they are very dumb because they seem so content with what they have that they don’t aspire for anything else. One of the Eloi, named Weena, makes a special connection with the time traveller and they become friends. The time traveller goes out to return to his time machine but finds that it has been moved.

In 1895 H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine was published and dealt with the issues that were prevalent during 1890s Britain, such as social inequality, which similarly affects society today. In this short story, Wells