Hg Wells The Time Machine

The Time Machine

While traveling to the future for some could be exciting, in the time traveler's case in H.G. Wells's "The Time Machine" it is intimidating because the future world looks like a paradise gone wrong from post-human to the structure of the environment.

To start with, the nature of H.G. Wells's "The Time Machine" is intimidating due to the future world, which doesn't make sense. First, in post-human, the Morlocks used their strengths and powers against everyone. For example, taken from the text, "I shouted at them as loudly as I could. They started away, and then I could feel them approaching me again. They clutched at me more boldly, whispering odd sounds to each other. I shouted violently, and shouted again rather discordantly."

The Eloi are terrified since they are so frail that it's easy for the Morlocks to come and capture them and, worse, eat them. "The Upperworld people might once have been the favored aristocracy, and the Morlocks their mechanical servants; but that had since long since passed away." The time traveler helps readers understand that once upon a time, the Morlocks were the slaves of the Eloi, which explains why the Morlocks treat the Eloi as such. The power that the Morlocks grew into led the Eloi to be so fearful of them. The time traveler even figures out that the Morlocks are carnivores who care for the Eloi the same way people in his time care for cows or, better yet, animals of sport: "the Morlocks made their garments and maintained them in their habitual needs, perhaps through the survival of an old habit of service... or as man enjoys killing animals in sport: because ancient and departed necessities had impressed it on the organism" (Wells 56). Thanks to the evolution of the dystopian world that is governed by the gradual decline of power into disorder, the Eloi live in great fear of the Morlocks since they have little energy or physical or mental

The environment in the future is intimidating, which fills the time traveler with fear when he first lands. "Already I saw other vast shapes – huge buildings with intricate parapets and tall columns, with a wooded hillside dimly creeping in upon me through the lessening storm. I was seized with a panic fear" (Wells 62). When first landing, the time traveler is threatened by the structure of the buildings, which leads him to ponder about what man has come to and if he will be seen as some "old-world savage animal" or "a foul creature to be incontinently slain." Furthermore, the environment is intimidating for the time traveler due to the desolate people. After traveling farther into the future after escaping the Morlocks, he is now faced with having to escape giant monster-like crabs. "Can you imagine a crab as large as a yonder table, with its many legs moving slowly and uncertainly, its big claws swaying… With a frightful qualm, I turned and saw that I had grasped the antenna of another monstrous crab that stood behind me" (Wells 83). Once again, the time traveler gets himself into a crazy situation with another set of creatures that would love him as a