The Time Machine, written in 1895, provides a parody of English class division. The story is told by Hillyer who tells his friends of his visit to the year 802701 just a week after their discussion of time travel theories. Hillyer tells of the two types of people he found during his travel: the Eloi and the Morlocks. The Eloi, small and weak, live above ground, whereas the Morlocks are brutish creatures who live below ground and also eat the Eloi. Wells, being a strong advocate of Darwinism, promotes the idea of “survival of the fittest” in showing the struggle between the seemingly defenseless Eloi and the ruthless Morlocks. In the same sense in the English society, there were and perhaps still are basically two classes of people: the insignificant and weak humans, and the strong, dominant humans. The more dominant humans, in a sense, “eat” the weaker humans. In the

Dr. Moreau attempted to play god in his experiments. But, as the story shows, his experiments backfire. The Dr. portrayed himself as someone who did not believe in a god, but saw the human race as the

inhumane and unreasonable. Prendick was able to survive the shipwreck as well as the island for several months after the chaos broke out. I believe that part of the reason that he was able to survive, was that he was never part of the problem in the first place. The survival of the fittest theory comes into play once again in this book, but at the same time, you almost get a sense of “do not bother it and it will not bother you”. The very power that Moreau and Montgomery sought and fooled around with, came back to kill them in the end.

The story seems to show a false sense of security that the human race has. Every man wants to believe that he is invincible and that there is nothing greater than him. The people that do not view themselves as unconquerable are actually usually the people that survive. The writer did not, from my viewpoint, perceive himself as greater than the Martians, and he realized their potential power. He was determined to survive, and he did. He was able to endure many threatening situations and he lives to see the end of the “war of the worlds”. His desire to persevere might have been driven by his aspiration to, in a sense, “conquer” the Martians, but he appeared to be slightly humbled by the posing threat of the invaders.

Wells was able to carefully study technical details in order to provide the story with a slightly realistic atmosphere. The time machine’s basic “principles” contained resources seeing time as the fourth dimension. Albert Einstein published his theory of the four dimensional continuum of space-time just years later.

The unnamed “philosophical writer” in The War of the Worlds, recounts the previous event of the earth’s invasion of Martians. He tells of the Martians landing on earth and destroying basically everything that crosses their path. The writer is able to get his wife to a safe place, but returns to his home where he meets an artilleryman who’s entire regiment has been wiped out. The

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