The Time Machine

The main characters in The Time Machine were The Time Traveler, Weena (an Eloi who

The Time Traveler rescued), the Eloi as a race and the Morlocks as a race. Now that

you know the main characters, I will explain their purpose in the novel and their

behaviors. Weena was by far the most interesting character in the novel. She was an

Eloi who was drowning while trying to bathe in a river. The Time Traveler quickly

jumped into the river and rescued her. Weena then started following The Time Traveler

everywhere during his explorations. He learned about the Eloi people and their language

and the Morlocks from Weena. The Time Traveler was definitely intelligent. He figured

out a way to travel through time! He was also a very charming, rich and friendly man, a

little too anxious and curious, I would say. His anxiousness made him go to another time

unprepared, nothing with him but a package of matches. The Morlocks are a futuristic

equivalent to our current day primates-just uglier, smellier and they live underground.

They are very aggressive and are blinded by even weak sources of light. The Morlocks

are carnivorous and sometimes make a meal of an Eloi. The Eloi are a beautiful, friendly

and fragile race of small creatures. They seem to have a great fear of the dark,

because that is when the Morlocks come out from their Underworld. Both are

descendents of humans. The Morlocks stole The Time Machine (I think) to lure The

Time Traveler into the brass gates so they co...