"The Time Machine": An Outstanding Science Fiction Novel of the 19th Century

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The Time Machine as written by Herbert George Wells remains an outstanding science fiction novel of the 19th century. The fictional genre introduces the discovery and the subsequent use of time travel- a vehicle that carries a man and further allows him to purposefully explore the unknown space. The narrator and the user of the time machine postulates that time is indeed the fourth dimension. It is the only medium that rockets a time traveler into the future away from his shell of ignorance and prevailing darkness that surrounds his earthly home. Even though many regard The Time Machine as just a mere fiction, the symbolic consumption of meat is used in the entire novel to signify the levels of transformational changes in the human intellect. The significance of the fourth dimension in the advancement of human intellect in the 19th century as depicted in the novel will be discussed throughout this peace. The protagonist of the novel is a scientist and a gentleman inventor living in Richmond; he is described by the narrator as a time traveler. Prior to the invention of the time machine, the indigenous residents of Richmond, surrey fully ascribed to their traditional cultures of cannibalism. They spent most of the time eating pork, goose and one another. Notwithstanding none of them is aware of the fourth dimension. Michael Parrish Lee also describes the pre-time machine period of darkness in his article Reading Meat in the H.G Wells. According to Lee, this period marked the rudimentary period of human civilizations when high levels of cannibalism, uncontrollable raging bodily appetite and cravings for the bones and meat took a toll on men. In fact, the writer (Lee) categorically captures two characters: Fred and Rosam... ... middle of paper ... ...onscience. In conclusion, H. G. Wells has made an articulate use of the theme of Consumption to indicate transformation changes in the human behavior as shaped by the prevailing civilizations that are brought from the fourth dimension by the time traveler in his carrier time machine. In addition, Reading Meat in the H.G Wells has also played a vital role in explaining how the theme of consumption adequately denotes transformation and civilizations in the novel, The Time Machine. Suffice it to say, Reading Meat in the H.G Wells, is a precursor in the descriptive understanding of the Wells’s simple novel, The Time Machine. Works Cited Clarke, E. Introduction to Classical Literature. Chicago: Harris & Sons. 1998. Lee, M.P. Reading Meat in the H.G Wells. Atlanta: McMillan Publishers. 2007. Well, H.G. Time Machine. New York: Berkley, Inc. 2004.

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