Introduction
The time machine is a story of the time traveler who undertakes expeditious actions of establishing a time machine which ultimately projects into the future. The traveler’s time machine goes way in to 802701 AD, where he finds himself in a different world. According to the narrator, the traveler’s bumps into small creatures, which are referred to as Eloi. Unfortunately, the traveler’s time machine disappears and explores all means to find the time machine. During his exploration actions in search for the time machine, he discovers other creatures which to Eloi refer to as the Morlocks. Accordingly Morlocks live under the earth's surface. Finally, the traveler finds the time machine and springs on to it where he goes thirty million years into the future.
On the other hand, war of the worlds involves Martians who attack the earth in a vigorous and ruthless manner. The Martians fight with the British army where the soldiers are attacked by their tank-like tripods which they use in striking the country. In this case, the country side people are faced with the Martians which are to be fought in order the people can regain their land from the aliens.
The time traveler is said to be very intelligent and everyone could have believed in his stories due to the fact that his arguments were firm with supportive evidence. Therefore, the traveler decides to explore in the future and tries to find how the future will look like by creating a small machine the size of a clock which could go back into the past as well as forth into the future. At his house with several guests, the traveler tries to exhibit the potential aspect of his time machine by allowing the guests to experience the actions of the time machine. Additionally, the traveler makes the guests believe that time is the fourth dimension (Wells 49).
As the time traveler pushes the lever forward things begin to change all over sudden. The time elapsing very quickly within a second by five hours. Additionally, he starts to feel dizzy as continues to push the lever more forward into the future. Therefore, the traveler notices that as he continues to press the lever more and more, the faster the time moved into the future. He begins to experience weird moments into the future where suddenly the lab vanishes. There are different features which appear unique and different from the real world situation. In this aspect, the sun goes round in a continuous path across the sky. Additionally, depending with the season, the sun moves up and down. The traveler becomes very much worried of the future and what could have happened if he stopped the lever. Ultimately, the traveler pulls the lever to stop after being frightened by the happenings.
The traveler finally stops at a hail storm where he notices a lot of weird things and animals I the region. He is afraid of what human beings might have evolved into and he becomes more frightened. Additionally, he realizes that some figures and creatures are observing around some big buildings as he pushes the lever further into the right. However, according to the traveler, the creatures are fearless and are friendly to him even though they have some expounding features like big eyes, thin red lips and curly hair. Apparently, more creatures surround the traveler as they speak nice to him. At this point, the traveler feels very much comfortable in the serene environment and goes ahead to get the control levers from the time machine so that nobody else can use the machine.
On the other hand, the creatures produce enormous sounds like thunderstorms while they shower the traveler with flowers. The traveler wonders about their behavior and starts to think they are fools. The creatures lead the traveler into buildings with a myriad and different hieroglyphic. The traveler is welcomed with great fruit meals while he is taught to speak their language which seems to be strange and difficult to understand.
Additionally, the traveler figures out that the creatures live together in their ruins which are in the huge buildings. He goes further to describe the animals as indolent and foolish probably because of the language and their living habits in the ruins. Moreover, there is a significant aspect to note by the traveler; that the creatures have no signs to tell of the gender and all of the creatures do not experience old age (Wells 93).
The traveler suggests that the creatures have grown in their own world without hardships and fear. As a result, they possess totally different characters from the real human being traits since human beings are exposed to challenges in life and exposed to fear. The traveler perceives the communism in these creatures as a result of their lack of fear and ultimate no need for family among them. However, as he continues his exploration of the creatures, the traveler figures out that his theory is probably wrong about their communism's way of life.
According to Wells, he probably may be suggesting the negative effects of communisms as compared to capitalists. On the other hand, he puts the idea of human intelligence meant to ease the lifestyle of the humans. However, he further addresses the issues of capitalists and acknowledges that he could have been wrong in his judgment theory about the communism.
Afterwards, when the traveler goes back to his time machine he finds it missing from the point he had left it. However, he is certain that the creatures he had encountered could not have the ability to move the machine far from the original position. Therefore, he goes back to wake the creatures to inquire them about the machine. The traveler thinks of the pedestal statue and he is certain that the time machine would have been hidden in the statue. However, he tries to open the statue, but in vain. Consequently, the traveler becomes a patient and tries to rethink about the creatures. He finds that the creatures could have been somewhat different from what he initially thought. On the other hand, he cannot understand the theory behind their clothes, the wells underneath and how the time machine suddenly disappeared from its original position.
The time traveler befriends one of the creatures whom he rescues from drowning. The creature, Weena, finds it hard to let the time traveler go away from the ruins where they sleep in clumps since they are usually afraid of darkness. As he stayed in the buildings with the creatures, the time traveler figures out other underground creatures which appear only during the night. Therefore, from his deductions he matches the underground creatures with the current laborers and is only expected to emerge during the night (Wells 82).
The time traveler makes comparison between the creatures with the current human beings. He deduces that, the existing gap between the underground and over world creatures as the gap which persists between laborers and the idle rich. Further, he suggests that underground creatures are the laborers for the over world creatures and have been forced to work for them with their sunshine access denied. Therefore, the rich are allowed to own huge property while the poor are not allowed to own anything.
The time traveler finally comes to realize that the over world creatures are the Eloi, while the underground creatures are referred to as the Morlocks. However, further questions by the time traveler to Weena sets her angry. According to the narrator, there seem to be some enmity between the Morlocks and the Eloi.
The time traveler decides to go underground in search of his time machine where he probably thinks could have gone with the Morlocks. Additionally, the time traveler descends into one of the wells into the underground world of the Morlocks. The Morlocks are used to the darkness, thus they are afraid of the light. Therefore, the time travel drops in the wells with lighting matches which are purposely meant to scare away the Morlocks from arming the time traveler. Unfortunately, the time traveler’s light matches run out while in the tunnel, underground. He is frightened by the situation as Morlocks angrily attacks him. However, he narrowly escapes the attack and goes up the well. However, he figures out that the Morlocks were eating some kind of meat which probably was Eloi meat hunted during the night. The time traveler now distinguishes the difference between the Eloi and Morlocks. Further, he postulates that the enmity between Morlocks and the Eloi (Wells 62).
Therefore, he establishes an idea that probably the Eloi ancestors could have forced the Morlocks’s ancestors to work for them and stay underground. However, there has been an equal power balance which has resulted into the weakness of the Eloi and thus the Morlocks have grown to be stronger with time. Further, the time traveler imagines of the horrible situation which could have existed as the Moerlocks were driven into the underground world while the Eloi stayed over the world. However, despite of all these endangering expeditions to find his time machine he never gives up.
According to the narrator, he tries to exhibit the war against class, where there are differences between the capitalists and the communist. In this case, it is clear that the rivalry between Morlocks and Eloi started way back in their ancestral periods. The time traveler and Weena enter the palace of green porcelain in search of the time machine. They find the palace to be a ruined old museum with a lot of older substance left in the building, for instance they find inflammable substances which probably were used as lighting materials. Unfortunately, they are caught up by the Morlocks, frightened, he breaks off a lever of the machine and they flee to the woods. They are followed by the Morlocks into the woods where they fell asleep without any knowledge of the Morlocks around them. As a time traveler struggles to get hold of the Morlocks, he holds the lever of the machine they got from the museum which wildly swings him killing several Morlocks. Consequently, the rest of the Morlocks run for their safety. He follows the directions of the Morlocks in an aim to find Weena whom he could not find in amidst of the giant forest fire which was rampantly spreading (Wells 38).
The time traveler finds his way into the pedestal where he finds it open. He is very happy to see his time machine in the pedestal. However, lazing around, the Morlocks frightened him with their thunderstorm sounds. The time traveler manages to hold into the lever of his time machine and springs into the future.
The time traveler completes analyzing his adventure with the Morlocks and the Eloi and goes further to another directly related adventures of the time machine travel. As the time traveler goes further into the future he notices that the sun became redder and it grew larger. Further, he realized that the earth had come to a stand still since it never rotated. Finally, the time traveler comes across giant crabs on the beach, when he goes further two months in the future he realizes more of the giant crabs. However, thirty million years into the future the earth seems to have no life (Wells 57).
Conclusion
In conclusion, the story has two different folds. Initially, the story about 802 701 AD is significantly used to portray the political structure of lake Victorian in England. It further recommends that the current society needs to change its way of thinking lest it adopts the Eloi way of living. On the other hand, the Morlocks provide a clear explanation about the criticism of the capitalism. The other fold is about science fiction of the time traveler, which brings out different periods in the future.
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