The Time Machine represents the different classes of society and how each one is changing and benefitting. The Eloi represent the upper-class who are very petty and lazy as they sit around all day and do nothing for themselves. The Morlocks represent the lower and working-class as they live underground and have to work to survive. While the Eloi's society seems perfect at first, they are lazy and weak with no stress for survival showing it is an imperfect society.
With no stress for survival, the Eloi have adapted to become weaker and lazier. Natural selection does not occur anymore and that allows the less fit to survive Eloi to live. The time traveler does not understand as seen from the quote, "What, unless biological science is a mass
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of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active, strong, and subtle survive and the weaker go…(Wells).” The Eloi, as well as the Morlocks, are not affected by natural selection, but the Morlocks are much more prepared and fit to survive, "Both the Eloi and the Morlocks evoke--apparently quite deliberately--mythical and real aspects of the human past. The vegetarian Eloi dwell in a kind of Garden of Eden belonging to the innocent childhood of the human race, whereas the Morlocks are primitive, carnivorous "cave" dwellers, who hunt and kill for their food (Firchow).” The Morlocks are very fit to survive showing they are more of a perfect society who can survive as the Eloi are unfit and can easily die off if natural selection occurred. The Eloi and Morlocks have evolved into two different species from the upper-class humans and the lower working-class humans. The time traveler sees how they have evolved when he says, "So, as I see it, the Upper-world man had drifted towards his feeble prettiness, and the Under-world to mere mechanical industry (Wells)." The time traveler is saying that the Eloi are lazy and do not do anything all day because they think they are too good and will soon face the struggle for survival while the Morlocks work to survive and will continue to live just fine. The creatures have evolved into two very different species as seen in the quote, "For the future schism of humanity into the creatures of light (the Eloi) and the creatures of darkness (the Morlocks) is not merely social but it is also psychological (Firchow)." It is ironic because the Eloi is not a perfect society in the way they do not have to do anything, but are still the upper-class creatures while the Morlocks live in the darkness and work to survive showing they are more of a perfect society. The Morlocks and Eloi have changed into two different species very differently than would be expected.
The upper-class evolved into the lazy and weak Eloi while the lower-class evolved into the hard working Morlocks see in the quote, "The Upper-world people might once have been the favoured aristocracy, and the Morlocks their mechanical servants: but that had long since passed away. The two species that had resulted from the evolution of man were sliding down towards, or had already arrived at, an altogether new relationship (Wells)." The expectation would be that the upper-class would evolve into a greater species and the lower-class would die out, but it is the exact opposite. The Morlocks are living perfectly fine and working everyday to survive while the Eloi are lazy and do not do anything which could be dangerous to the species’ survival in the future. In The Time Machine, the two species evolved very differently, "The Eloi and the Morlocks represent how human beings have genetically changed in the future as a result of their ability to adapt, or not, to their environments. The Morlocks, representing a mutation of the working class of Wells's day, are ape-like, with large eyes and white skin, features that have evolved because they live underground. They fear the light and love the darkness. Conversely, the Eloi are effete, fragile, and fearful of the dark, a result of thousands of years of not having to work to survive (Time)." The Eloi are a result of never having
to work so they do not know how and the Morlocks are working creatures who will continue to have no problems surviving while the Eloi will soon struggle to survive because of how they adapted into a weak species. The Eloi’s weakness shows the time traveler how humans will struggle in the future if they are this weak. The time traveler knows the Eloi are weak from the quote, "I never met people more indolent or more easily fatigued (Wells)." The time traveler knows how weak and lazy the Eloi are and has never seen any other species like it. The time traveler went to the future looking for answers about evolution of humans, but did not find the answers desired, "However, use of the time machine did not make life easier for the Time Traveller or result in any knowledge that could change the future. Rather, the TimeTraveler's experiences showed a future of doom, as his journey revealed a world in which the struggles of the 1890s were not resolved but rather exacerbated. His journeys even deeper into the future revealed a world in which humanity had been extinguished from the face of the earth." The time traveler sees the Eloi are far from a perfect society and knows humanity is doomed if something does not change and this will continue to be the future for the upper-class. In the end, the time traveler knows that the future of the upper-class is doomed because of how less sophisticated and weak the Eloi are. The Eloi cannot do anything for themselves while the working-class Morlocks survive easily doing their work to survive. While the Eloi may have been thought to be a perfect society, they are far from it being a weak and lazy society doomed in the future.
The USA is a very big country with a lot of people and the social classes are very important. We can see that social class plays a big part of people’s life. Everyday people are working, studying, trying to be better. Even though right now it’s a time when everyone has many opportunities in his life, anyway there is a gap between classes and groups of people with the same features. Your background probably will build your future. The main idea is that Social Classes still exist. There are three reasons why line between groups still exist.
... that they affect one another. A person who lives by a lower income will not have that mines and chances of become wealthy. A person in the other spectrum, which is born into a higher class, will most likely stay wealth. This leads to an endless cycle of generations staying within the working class realm. The likely hood of a person moving up a class is rare but it does exist. People need to be pushed and have a drive to keep going and to keep trying. That is why we are told we have an equal chance in life so we can all strive for better even though in reality we do not all have an equal chance. But nonetheless people should try to become successful even if they never make it in life because a life without purpose, goals, or ambitions is a meaningless life. As humans we need a reason to live, another day for people to take advantage and make the best of it.
This gives the readers a clue that what is to happen in the upcoming text is a
Social Classes Throughout History The gap between different classes has always been very prominent in
In many ways, judging and comparing Vigil’s Aeneid and Ovid’s Metamorphoses is inevitable because each of the writers lived at roughly the same time in history, both sought to create a historical work that would endure long past their mortal existences, and while each man was ultimately successful in their endeavors, they achieved their desired goals in vastly different ways. That being said, the epic poem by Ovid is superior because unlike Virgil, whose epic poem utilized a character centered narrative steeped in historical inferences and a theme that celebrated the moral virtues of Greek and Roman society, Ovid defied tradition by creating an intricate narrative that looked
“Throughout recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic era, there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low.” (Orwell, 201) From the ancient and primitive tribes of our ancestors to the blue-collar and white-collar jobs within cities, the human race has always divided itself into clear groups of social classes. Sometimes, the distinction is placed to forcibly separate the elite from the workers, while others are formed through a separation of class interests. Over time, writers have distinguished a pattern common within most societies. Most societies, from the utmost primal to the most advanced, have congregated themselves into three classes of people. These societal classes are exemplified
By what has been used to describe them, it is clear to say that the Elois is the privileged ones while the Morlocks are more of the hard labour ones. At other words, Elois was seen as the higher class while Morlocks were part of the lower class. Aside from the social classes, some things that made Elois differ from the Morlocks were what they ate, their intelligence level, and appearance. Traits of such are what structured the society they live in. Each hold some good and bad traits that the traveler has deciphered while spending and observing them very carefully. From what the traveler has come across, the Morlocks are brighter than the Elois however, their appearance does give them a more disgusting and inhuman look. In contrast to the Elois who were more appealing to look at but barely did any physical or mental work. Hence showing the comparison of these two creatures and how combining them has helped establish the society they
The upper class developed the eElite American Culturef which gave them the view that they were superior to the others around them. They also developed a bad view of lower class people as they did not mix with them.
Wells was able to optimize his usage of themes that are evident all throughout the novel. One of the dominant themes present in the novel was the severe discrimination of social classes. Wells grew up during the time where the upper class were harsh to the lower class, and Wells captured this in his novel. In the story, the Eloi made the Morlocks into their servants, wherein they became extremely dependent on them for their survival. Morlocks, in the other hand, are oppressed and they began to rebel against the Eloi (http://www.hyperink.com/Major-Themes-And-Symbols-In-The-Time-Machine-b930a15).
To start, when the Time Traveler first meets the two groups he prefers for the Eloi, “[The] graceful children of the Upper-world were not the sole descendants of our generation, but that this bleached, obscene, nocturnal Thing, which had flashed before me, was also heir to all the ages” (Wells 30). It does not take long for the Time Traveler to judge the creatures of the future based upon shallow traits such as their appearances. The Time Traveler depicts the Eloi as graceful children because he wants to make them appear as innocent like a child. Then he dehumanizes the Morlocks by defining them based on their exterior qualities, saying they are bleached and obscene. In continuation, Firchow explains the divide between the groups as “into the creatures of light (the Eloi) and the creatures of darkness (the Morlocks)” showing that the divide is not “merely social but it is also psychological.” (Firchow). Furthering the idea that this is a divide between good and evil, Firchow explains that the Time Traveler sees the Eloi as light and the Morlocks as darkness. The split between the Eloi and the Morlocks shows Wells opinion of the human condition that we are imperfect beings incapable of reaching a perfect balance. Furthermore, Tuerk presents the contrast between the groups plainly, stating that,
With this being exemplified by the African Kingdoms and the Industrial Revolution, their social classes are similar. As in history social classes are divided into rich and poor. As the Industrial Revolution was divided into a high class, middle class, and lower class. This also happened to the African Kingdoms such as Lozi was divided into royal, commoners, and slaves. Kingdom Zulu, social classes were divided into chiefs and slaves. As shown the similarities to one another, that led to their
In The War of the Worlds the authors tone can be seen a detached. This is because along the course of the story the focus jumps from one thing to another. While the narrator does make some good point they are not exactly organized. “At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all. “This detachment shows the little comprehension of the events. This goes to demonstrate that the story is fate driven because nothing they do or think seems to impact the unfolding and outcome of the story. Then for The Time Machine the tone the author took was a combination of science and irrationality. This demonstrates that the characters in the book were more driven by free will than fate. Also something that builds upon free will id the fact that most of the themes like, society, change, and technology are only possible through free
The looks of the Morlocks left an hatred toward the Morlocks due to their appearances and behaviours (east the Eloi). The looks of both the Creature and Morlocks, left both Victor and the time travel to view them in a negative way.
The brutal system of capitalism and widening gap between classes experienced by Wells during the late Victorian Britain leads him to join the Fabian Society and adopt socialist and liberal views. His personal schooling and scientific education allow him to think outside of the confines of society and help usher in social reform. The Time Machine embodies the problems of not only society during Wells’ time but modern society as well.
The Morlocks working and living conditions is an allusion to the real living conditions in London at the time of H.G Wells writing The Time Machine. The Time Traveler describes how in his own time, “There is a tendency to utilize underground space for the less ornamental purposes of civilization; there is the Metropolitan Railway in London, for instance, there are new electric railways, there are subways, there are underground workrooms” all of which require that people be underground away from fresh air for many hours at a time (Wells 41). People can develop serious health problems if they are not allowed to go outside. Some of these negative health effects are a sensitivity to bright light, pale skin and in some extreme cases insanity. Wells