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The time machine Essay

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On pages 57-58 Wells elaborates on his ideas of the situation between the Morlocks and Eloi further than in earlier parts of the book. He explains the struggle between the Morlocks and the Eloi including altered ideas about the hierarchy of the civilization - how the human race evolved into two different species.

The Time Traveller comes the conclusion that the Morlocks are similar to the working class and the Eloi the upper-class of his time. This started when the Morlocks were pushed underground for so long that they evolved to find “the daylit surface intolerable” providing much evidence that they are definitely the most downtrodden species of the two. The Eloi were spoiled, remained above ground and sat around idle all day doing …show more content…

When he figures out that the Morlocks are the true masters of the Eloi, his sympathy with the Eloi overshadows whatever ideas he may have about the rich being justly punished. The Time Traveller begins to understand the Eloi's fear of the night when the Morlocks come out from underground, in this chapter he really talks in depth about them, noting that that he feels like a “beast in a trap” anticipating for his time to be badly effected by the Morlocks.

Wells’s thoughts on humanity where influenced by his era and background. He was born into a lower-middle classes family in the Victorian Era, this would have been difficult for him, because at this time class was clearly marked resulting in people becoming very “class conscious” meaning that he would have been judged on how rich his parents were. In contrast to the last factor, the Boer War was from 1899- 1902 where British Concentration Camps were first used to group together enemies. This could have effected the idea that the Morlocks were forced to be grouped together in a different space to the Eloi. To add to that, the Industrial Revolution was at it’s peak during Wells’s life. He witnessed how Industrial Revolution and Capitalism alarmingly further divided the classes.

In my opinion, the situation between the Morlocks and the Eloi seems to be a constant struggle which never could never be resolved simply, however, it could be argued that it

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