The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells was a famous English writer during the Victorian age and had several famous books including: The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, and a few other well-known titles. The Time Machine especially, had depicted an interesting way of thinking for the age in which the book was written. Wells had expressed his thoughts about how the future was going to turn out within this book. Although the book may have an odd depiction of the future, it also has some reasonable theories that may be scientifically possible.
The book The Time Machine takes place in the Victorian age and the main story is focused on a gentleman who is a scientist and an inventor living in England. Wells depicts the protagonist’s name as “The Time Traveler,” and does not provide a birth name, but yet the character is understood to actually be Wells himself. The Time Traveler had introduced a small model of the time machine for a group of dinner guests that he had gathered with occasionally. The guests do not believe The Time Traveler whenever he tells them that he will return in one week after traveling into the future with his machine. The story goes on, and he decides to use his time machine to travel into the future to where he finds Earth to be succumbed to only two different kinds of species, the Morlocks and the Eloi.
The Eloi and the Morlocks were extremely unique in every way and the Time Traveler sought out to learn about their ways of life. The Eloi appear to be a very fragile type of people, similar to a childlike frailty, and they also live very lazily without going outside frequently, if at all (Wells). The Eloi live above the surface of the earth taking precedent in ruins without having to tend to at all, nor do they care ...

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... cause an allergic reaction in susceptible individuals” (Whitman). This quote from Whitman introduces a new problem which displays another fault with the GMOs. The pesticide and other treatments may create unexpected allergic reactions to not only childeren but to adults as well, since the immune systems may not have resistance to the bacteria in their bodies. Nonetheless, the system of modifying foods genetically may seem immoral to people based on the unnatural aspect of it. Some may suggest this process goes against the natural ways food was once supposed to be grown and treated.

Works Cited

Kloor, Keith. "The GMO- Suicide Myth." Issues in Science & Technology 30.2 2014: 65-70. Web.
Wells, H.G. The Time Machine. United Kingdom: William Heinemann, 1895. Print.
Whitman, Deborah. Genetically Modified Foods: Harmful or Helpful? April 2000. Web. 27 February 2014.