The Time Machine Essay

The great thinkers of the ancient Greece taught many of the sciences such as philosophy. Among these many great thinkers, painters and writers, there stood Aristotle. With Aristotle's great mind, he begin to concoct an idea of argumentative writing that include Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. Each having it's own meaning and how it explains how a piece of writing is augured and presented. It is easy for one to distinguish these three different types of appeals and use them on a type of writing, such as Well's novel, The Time Machine. In this story, Well argues about the Human nature and how it affects the future outcome of the Human race. In H.G. Wells' Time Machine, he argues about the state of the Human being in terms of class, ignorance and overall Human evolution and possible devolution.

Social and political class all play an important role in the everyday life of an average Human. Everyday society has stereotyped the different social classes so that they each have a certain image and a certain stature to uphold. This is no different from The Time Machine. The society that was presented in the future reflects upon that what exists between the more privileged upper class and the rough-lived working lower class. This upper class is depicted as the Eloi who benefit from the working class by devouring food and other good, yet do not need employment for themselves. On the other hand, the working class is represented by the Morlocks that are more monster and ape-like. The fact that they are more physically power proves that they are indeed hard workers and thus is a working class. This seemingly unbalanced separation of classes is seemingly flipped for that it seems that the Eloi only purpose is consumption. This puts power in the hands ...

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...ows that the narrator is willing to embrace the uncertainty of the future instead of accepting the possibility of a loss of intelligence. Excatlly like the first two arguments, this one too is a Logic based appeal, which too would be Logos.

In the final analysis of the novel, The Time Machine, one could calmly say that Wells' use of Aristotle's appeals is greatly done. Each of the arguments uses the appeal Logos as greatly as possible. The epilogue leaves the reader with something far more than a bleak vision of the future. For it uses the power of the dark view of the Time Traveller’s narrative to fuel its own purpose in closing with a sense of the human element. The Darwinism of Human-kind, the ignorance of man and the evolution of social classes and statures is what Well was arguing and what seperated the novel, The Time Machine into the great book that it is.