Humanity And Downfall In H. G. Wells 'The Time Machine'
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Humanity?s Future and Downfall Have you ever envisioned what the future will hold for you? How about the entire human race as a species? Well, H.G. Wells did. He had a remarkable view of human nature that very few others on the planet ever even considered. He seemed to have this certain fascination with how the human race would evolve and/or deal with future endeavors. As a boy, Wells? family was not the most financially robust. He spent most of the day working as an apprentice to a draper. Every day he worked for long, strenuous hours, but in his free time, he read book after book, filling his head with ideas and forming the imagination that would eventually lead to the creation of literary classics we still read today.1 …show more content…
book The Time Machine expresses one of the greatest and most well-known creations of science fiction which is the idea of time travel. Throughout history, scientists have been theorizing and testing the possibility of time travel. Some of the most famous scientists have even given a little thought about the impossible proposition including Albert Einstein. Einstein theorized that all parts of time, past, present, and future are relative rather than absolute. All three exist all at once. This conclusion has inspired different scientists who have been attempting to crack the code of time travel for centuries. Some have even claimed to have accomplished such an achievement. Though there is no actual proof that time travel exists now doesn?t mean that it won?t exist in the future. With the new technology we are inventing every day, perhaps one day we?ll be able to travel through …show more content…
story The Time Machine a scientist, who created a time machine, travels into the future to discover what has happened to the human race. As he activates his newly created machine, he lands thousands of years into the future. In this future, he encounters two co-existing tribes. One that lives above ground called the Eloi and the other that lives below ground called the Morlocks.10
The Eloi creatures are scrawny and weak looking with a peaceful, fearless exterior.11 They are the first of the two tribes he encounters. When he meets them they don?t seem to fear the Time Traveler in any way. They take him in and he learns little bits about them. Meanwhile, the Morlocks are a bit bigger with an ape-like quality to them. When the Time Traveler encounters them they are a lot more hostile and they attempt to capture him but he manages to
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Humanity?s Future and Downfall Have you ever envisioned what the future will hold for you? How about the entire human race as a species? Well, H.G. Wells did. He had a remarkable view of human nature that very few others on the planet ever even considered. He seemed to have this certain fascination with how the human race would evolve and/or deal with future endeavors. As a boy, Wells? family was not the most financially robust. He spent most of the day working as an apprentice to a draper. Every day he worked for long, strenuous hours, but in his free time, he read book after book, filling his head with ideas and forming the imagination that would eventually lead to the creation of literary classics we still read today.1 …show more content…
book The Time Machine expresses one of the greatest and most well-known creations of science fiction which is the idea of time travel. Throughout history, scientists have been theorizing and testing the possibility of time travel. Some of the most famous scientists have even given a little thought about the impossible proposition including Albert Einstein. Einstein theorized that all parts of time, past, present, and future are relative rather than absolute. All three exist all at once. This conclusion has inspired different scientists who have been attempting to crack the code of time travel for centuries. Some have even claimed to have accomplished such an achievement. Though there is no actual proof that time travel exists now doesn?t mean that it won?t exist in the future. With the new technology we are inventing every day, perhaps one day we?ll be able to travel through …show more content…
story The Time Machine a scientist, who created a time machine, travels into the future to discover what has happened to the human race. As he activates his newly created machine, he lands thousands of years into the future. In this future, he encounters two co-existing tribes. One that lives above ground called the Eloi and the other that lives below ground called the Morlocks.10
The Eloi creatures are scrawny and weak looking with a peaceful, fearless exterior.11 They are the first of the two tribes he encounters. When he meets them they don?t seem to fear the Time Traveler in any way. They take him in and he learns little bits about them. Meanwhile, the Morlocks are a bit bigger with an ape-like quality to them. When the Time Traveler encounters them they are a lot more hostile and they attempt to capture him but he manages to