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How Does One Way To Regret The Sphinx In The Time Machine?

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How Does One Way To Regret The Sphinx In The Time Machine?
To: Timothy J. Juntilla, Department of English
From: Aima Choudry
Date: September 22, 2014
Re: Project Proposal for Paper #1

I. Introduction:
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, a novel about a mans journey through the future or criticism to the evolution of human race? The time traveller sets out on this journey not knowing what he would find or see in the year 802,701. When he arrives he comes across people known as the Eloi. The Elois are uneducated, small beautiful creature who don’t work or have any political issues. What seems at first like a utopian society that he heard of in the 19th century turns out to be quite different as he finds out about the Morlocks. The Morlocks live underground and are the “working class” creatures that
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a.) He is thrown off the time machine, note the symbolization of being thrown off the “seat of power” b.) He begins to notice big buildings and a white statue. 2. Note the large white statue is sphinx and plays a large role in the time traveller's journey. a.) He leaves the time machine to explore.
3. Prince’s Article:“One way to interpret the sphinx in The Time Machine is to extend this analogy to human evolution, as David Lake does when he argues that because the “rise and fall of Man” is the primary subject of the novella, the sphinx, “this leprous, crumbling sphinx,” “represents the ‘three-legged’ stage, the decay of Man in the future world…”
4. The Time Traveler begins to fear what mankind had became. B. Discovery of the Eloi and the Morlocks 1. Note his reaction to the Eloi a.) Beautiful and graceful creatures b.) They spoke their own language and imitated what they heard.
2.Hume’s Article “All later descriptions use codes normally applied to women or children: mouths small and bright red, eyes large and mild, a language that sounds sweet and liquid and cooing and melodious.” a.) He thinks of the Eloi as his pet or as
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