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The Time Machine, By H. G. Wells

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The Time Machine,by H.G. Wells, was spoken back in the views and the ways that people back from its time period thought about the future. Back in 1987 they never had any electronics or skyscrapers, they only had signs of wealth by looking at someone and their appearance. Looking to the future, Wells showed how he saw the path of society and what it could look like in the future. For this reason, Wells used metaphors for the hierarchies of life throughout the novel to represent communism, such as how he thought, ”evidently, I thought, this tendency had increased till Industry had gradually lost its birthright in the sky. I mean that it had gone deeper and deeper into larger and ever larger underground factories, spending a still-increasing …show more content…

In addition, Wells talked of two different forms of beginnings living in this futuristic land that the narrator, who was a mystery, traveled to. These two forms that he spoke of being the Eloi and the Morlocks. Even so, the Morlocks are spoken to show the lower class living below, even underneath the upper class, the Eloi. “What had happened to the Under-grounders I did not yet suspect; but from what I had seen of the Morlocks—that, by the by, was the name by which these creatures were called—I could imagine that the modification of the human type was even far more profound than among the ‘Eloi,’ the beautiful race that I already knew”(Wells 80). The Morlocks will come out at night and live freely while the Eloi sleep, but once morning hits the Morlocks have to go back into the ground and work while the Eloi can be lazy and sit back and …show more content…

In fact the time traveler says, “ indeed there is no necessity – for an efficient family, and the specialization of the sexes with reference to their children's needs disappears. We see some beginnings of this even in our own time, and in this future age it was complete”(Wells 46), speaking on how he noticed that there was no difference on their genders. Furthermore, this is shown in today’s society because women are starting to rise in the ranks of businesses and taking over a “man’s” job. The Street talks on how, “the number of women in the workforce grew by more than two million between 2000 and 2010”(Fiegerman, Seth), showing that women are starting to take more initiative to become more successful than

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