The Time Machine. The Time Machine Coursework Most of the story "The Time Machine" is written in first person narrator. "I told you all last Thursday" This narrator is the main character, the Time Traveller. However, at the end of the novel, the narrator changes to a reporter. The reporter is telling the story through his eyes. This is because in the epilogue the Time Traveller was not around to tell the story, as he went missing The Time Traveller comes across arrogant, as he believes he knows best, and nothing could go wrong. "Very calmly I tried to strike the match the match were of that abominable kind that light only on the box." And "'Communism' I said to myself." This shows a lack of responsibility, because he believes everything is should be more advanced. His arrogance also allows him to get the better of him. The Time Traveller however is not responsible, organised or always correct; he is in fact unorganised, forgetful and presumes things automatically. While the Time Traveller has his faults he is an extremely intelligent person. The fact that he could invent, and build a working time machine, proves his intelligence. '"This little affair," said the Time Traveller "Is only a model. It is my plan for a machine to travel through time.'" The character the Time Traveller is most definitely presumptuous. We know this because in many scenarios he is too quick to jump to conclusions. He doesn't think before he acts. "In some of these visions of Utopias which I have read, there is a vast amount of detail about building, and social arrangements" This can consequently, change the views of the reader. HG Wells may have written this novel to try and get the people of the Victorian era to r... ... middle of paper ... ...anding and knowledge from the time when HG Wells wrote this novel and the development and discoveries of today's world as well as a far more relaxed viewpoint to religion, the Time Machine by today's standards would not be a literary argument. Today, readers would not dislike the character, but they may question his ways of preparation, but today we have further technology, so the views may be divided. I believe that the character the Time Traveller would have been disliked in the Victorian era. This is because of the controversy about religion. People would have though what the character was doing was unruly as he was essentially going against God and possibly varying the way of the future. Some people didn't want to know what was going to happen, they may have felt threatened, but on the other hand, the Victorians found the unknown very interesting.
1.Who is the narrator of the story? How is he or she connected to the story ( main character, observer, minor character)?
The story is mostly told in chronological order except there some are flash backs. When they tell about some events in the past it isn’t a person talking, it is put into third person omniscient instead. “When Gideon Crumb first came to London the city was still ruled by the Scriven”(150) This quote is when a character is telling what happened to him in the past but instead of him talking, When I first came to London…, it is being told in non-Dialogue so it is like you are traveling back to the past in the story.
The narrator does not move chronologically, contrarily, but uses small flashbacks to tell his point, leading up to the actual visit of the blind man where he then tells the story in a present tense. This lets the author seem like he is actually telling the story in person, reflecting on past occurrences of his life when necessary. His tone however, is a cynical, crude, humorous tone that carries throughout the story. The word choice and sentences are constructed with simple, lifelike words, which makes the reader sense the author is really telling the story to them.
The story is told in the first person voice. The narrator is talking to one particular person; He refers to this character in the second person voice. “This is your
Obviously the whole book is about the struggle mankind faces, but it is not always with aliens, they are actually more of a good way to represent what Wells really believed. He believed man is dominant, yet should remember how big the universe is and that the possibility of life far more intelligent than ours is very great.
In this essay I am going to discuss Wells' use of contrast in the Time
...rlds. Internal and External conflicts are shown along with foreshadowing; humans believed that they were the superior of all races. Foreshadowing, Symbolism, and Irony were literary elements used to enhance the theme. Over a course of 52 years, Wells wrote more than 100 books. A majority of which were science fiction books.
H.G. Wells does not give his main character a name as it is written in
The main characters in The Time Machine were The Time Traveler, Weena (an Eloi who
SOURCE8: Michael Draper, "H. G. Wells," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 34: British Novelists, 1890-1929, edited by Thomas F. Staley, Gale Research Inc., 1985, pp. 292-315.
This brings me to one of Wells' most important ideas that he wanted to tell his readers. That was the idea of vivisection or cloning of humans and animals. In todays world we are trying to control evolution by furthering our studies into cloning. He was right about his expectations of future societies and his ideas about how scientific advancements would affect our world. It was different because when this book was published it got horrific reviews for being too outlandish with its views on society. I think that if the book was published today it would be raved as a good warning for all the cloning scientists. Tod...
During the late Victorian Britain, H.G. Wells became a literary spokesperson for liberal optimism and social reform. His scientific knowledge and literary capabilities led him to be one of the fore fathers of modern science fiction. In his novel The Time Machine, Wells, knowledgeable on the teachings of Charles Darwin and those of the Fabian Society, attempts to warn society that the brutality of capitalism and the plight of the laborer are not dealt with through social reforms then humanity will drive itself to extinction.
There are numerous people in society who lack certain skills that they need for survival.
I had made myself the most complicated and the most hopeless trap that a man devised. (Time Machine, pg.48) H.G Wells's Time Machine gave the nineteenth century society an insight into what the future holds, and shared that people should be afraid of the effects of science because science could end one's life. The Time Traveller in Time Machine returns to tell his adventures, which none of his friends believed. Thus, he was so determined to bring back proof, that he went to the future. However, during his second journey in time, the Time traveller "just vanished three years ago, and as everybody knows now, he has never returned." (Time Machine pg.117)
The narrator is the person telling the story and can range from one to several, within a single story. How the author develops the narration will direct how their work is perceived by the reader. The narrator can present the story reliably or dishonestly, from a compelling view to an ironic view. The author can lose or gain pertinent information simply by changing the narration. Narration is a guide for the reader “…it requires the invention of a narrator,” Diane Middlebook said, “who serves as a contemporary guide to the materials of the book…” (Middlebrook). The narrator of a story is fundamental to the reader’s understanding and, any changes to the narration can change the stories understanding entirely.