Comparing The Eloi And The Morlocks In The Time Machine

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In the book The Time Machine, the time traveller has a lot of theories from his travel into the future. He meets two types of people, the Eloi and the Morlocks. Some of his ideas don’t make a lot of sense to me, but they follow the ideas of Charles Darwin, from his book Origin of Species.

The time traveler thinks that the Eloi used to be the upper class people and that they became weak and unintelligent over the years. The Morlocks were the lower class factory workers. They continued their habit of working and serving people. This follows Darwin’s idea that humans continually evolve. These people have changed from how people were in the current time that the time traveller is in.

The time traveller thinks that things, like buildings,