Humanity For The Future In The Time Machine By G. Wells
The theme of the novel answers on of the biggest questions in today’s time as to what the future holds for the human race.Due to the publication date an era in which the novel was first published Wells creates a controversial setting from the reality where people showed hope and promise for the future, whereas the time traveler sees that it is not progressing but in reality the future is falling. Wells uses conflicting images through the narrator to portray a negative tone to the story, and to foreshadow disappointment that will come instead of innocence that a reader would expect by other times in the novel. The novel describes the different issues with society and shows that over time humanity will fall. In the novel, “The Time Machine”,
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The colors Wells chooses can usually be associated with innocence but he chooses the opposite effect of them. The color white is used over again in the text as imagery for the ghosts of humanity as mentioned in the Novel:
“I felt a peculiar shrinking from these pallid bodies. They were just the half-bleached colour of the worms and things one sees preserved in spirit in a zoological museum. And they were filthily cold to the touch. Probably my shrinking was largely due to the sympathetic influence of the Eloi, whose disgust of the Morlocks I now began to appreciate. (Wells
The grey-white color of the morlocks is actually attached to the idea of ghosts. These
morlocks were originally just used as the idea of death but the preceding quote refers
to the “filthily cold” specimens which actually stands for death itself. All of these items of
white color just foreshadow death. After the traveler goes into the future, he sees that mankind is fading over the years. Another color used in the story is the repetition of the color red. The color red is used to describe the sunset, which stands for the ending of humanity, fire or hell, and also blood. All of the negative words throughout the novel place a harsh tone for the rest of the book. Wells uses this to foreshadow the end of humanity he
The colors Wells chooses can usually be associated with innocence but he chooses the opposite effect of them. The color white is used over again in the text as imagery for the ghosts of humanity as mentioned in the Novel:
“I felt a peculiar shrinking from these pallid bodies. They were just the half-bleached colour of the worms and things one sees preserved in spirit in a zoological museum. And they were filthily cold to the touch. Probably my shrinking was largely due to the sympathetic influence of the Eloi, whose disgust of the Morlocks I now began to appreciate. (Wells
The grey-white color of the morlocks is actually attached to the idea of ghosts. These
morlocks were originally just used as the idea of death but the preceding quote refers
to the “filthily cold” specimens which actually stands for death itself. All of these items of
white color just foreshadow death. After the traveler goes into the future, he sees that mankind is fading over the years. Another color used in the story is the repetition of the color red. The color red is used to describe the sunset, which stands for the ending of humanity, fire or hell, and also blood. All of the negative words throughout the novel place a harsh tone for the rest of the book. Wells uses this to foreshadow the end of humanity he