Monkeying Around with Time
The relationship between space and time has always fascinated the curiosity of men, ever since Einstein's theory of relativity, we have wondered is there truly a way to time through travel. The subject of creating a time machine or travelers has not been proven, but this does not stop creative mind such as H. G. Wells, Chris Marker, or Terry Gilliam from creating fictional worlds where time travel is possible. These stories and narratives of time and space are tales of the human intellectual interest in time travel and the possibility they may uncover about humanity of both the past and the future that is possible through fictional scientific proof. H. G. Wells the earliest of these writers imagined in 1895 an English scientist, the Time Traveller using a time machine to travel through the fourth dimension, which is/was time itself in his sci-fi novel The Time Machine. Much of the plot and character interaction can be seen in both Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962) and Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys (1995) of the Time Traveler falling in love with a woman from a different time. Even though the audiences’, readers’, or creators’ dream of traveling through time changes with new technological advancement the literary and visual publication of the stories shows the past or
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G. Wells’ The Time Machine, but if The Time Machine plot is simplified based on narrative elements than H. G. Wells’ story could be seen as an imitation of Homer’s Iliad or Odyssey. A traveler going to new lands and undiscovered that become read through the words of the narrative as fictional worlds with advanced vessels made by gods or technology that is almost god like to travel through space to unknown future or past. For “imitation is the sincerest [form] of flattery,” according to the English cleric, Charles Caleb Colton, which is the soul and heart of sci-fi