The Time Machine
The Time Machine “A Pessimistic View” Alfredo Pini Per:5 Englsih IV Critical Analysis the novel The Time Machine, H.G. Wells shows the reader a pessimistic glimpse of what he perceives to be the future of the industrial world. The way the writer tells the story, he tries to get the reader to believe what he believes in the fourth dimension, the time machine, and his pessimistic future. For the writer of fantastic stories to help the reader play the game properly, he must help him in every possible unobtrusive way to domesticate the impossible hypothesis. He must trick him into an unwary concession to some plausible assumption and get on with his story while the illusion holds. This is exactly Wells technique in The Time Machine .(Hillegas p. 200) The Time Machine was mostly based on how the author felt. He came from a poor group of people among a town of wealthy people observing the disparity of both of the social classes. It is almost like the Morlocks living among the Eloi. “In The Time Machine Wells devices a geographical landscape functioning as a Poe-esque symbol of psychological terrain.” (Rainwater p 35) Some say that he was beyond his time. Powerfully influenced by Darwin, Wells shows the direction in which the wor
ld was headed. He sought that the female gender of humans would be on an equal level as male gender. Also he anticipated the use of weapons of mass destruction, like atomic weapons, that would destroy large cities and maybe eventually the world. Wells was ahead of his time. “He was, in many respects, a pessimist, and yet he continued to hope that somehow humanity would see its folly before its too late.” (Platzner p 113) In showing the reader of how he feels of the future, he has the Time Traveler explain about the time traveling device. Next, Wells talks about the life in the year eight hundred and two thousand seven hundred and one AD. Then the author writes about his character, observing the environment of thousands of millions of years passed the time of the Morlocks and the Eloi. Later, the reflection of how the Time Traveler felt on his visit to the future. Finally, he shows how to change the future; the Time Traveler returning back in time to make it better. “ The Time Machine is a bleak and sober vision of man’s place in the universe.” (Hillegas p 200) The story begins at a dinner party at the Time Traveler’s house. The inventor of a time machine explains to his guests the principles on which his time machine is based. He tells them the relationship of time and space. In his theory there was not only three dimensions, but four, and he can prove it. To the amazement of his guests he asks one of them to pull one of the levers on his model machine and it disappeared. He says that the model moved back in time so fast that it was invisible for the eye to see. When the Time Traveler came back to the present, he gives his dilemma of proving his traveling. He shows the flowers Weena gave him. The Medical Man examined it and said that he did not recognize it. Asking if he can keep them, the Time Traveler replied no to his wish. When the Time Traveler traveled to the future he noticed that the life in the year eight hundred and seven hundred and one AD was a lot different than the nineteenth century. The earth seemed to be missing animal life, diseases, and the advancemen
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