Selfish Desires Will Always Corrupt Paradise: "The Time Machine” by H.G. Wells

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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.

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The majority of the story is set in the future, year 802,701 AD. This place The Time Traveler goes to is, at first look, a wonderful land with no worries. The land was lush with flowers and full laughter. “My general impression of the world I saw over their heads was a tangled waste of beautiful bushes and flowers…” (50). It looked to be the “Golden Age” of the human civilization; there was no war, no famine, and no pove...

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