What Is The Mood Of The Time Machine

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The story The Time Machine by H.G. Wells was about a Time Traveller who time travelled to the future to the year 802,700. He experienced a lot of different things. He came upon two groups of people called Eloi and Morlocks. The Eloi look all the same, woman like, and were not very intelligent. Their land was beautiful but the buildings were dilapidated. They were very nice and gentle people who only ate fruit. The Morlocks on the other hand were completely opposite. They lived underground in the pitch black dark and only came out when the sun goes down. The Time Traveller explored their living too. He descended into the well to where they lived. While he was down there the Morlocks were attacking him. He saw that they ate meat unlike the Eloi who eat only fruit. He also realized that the Morlocks were afraid of light to escape them he kept lighting his matches. He met an Eloi named Weena she was the one who showed him that the Eloi were afraid of the Morlocks. So while the Time Traveller was here he theorized a lot about how these creatures became the way …show more content…

After realizing this he made a hypothesis on why this might be. He believes that these people are this way because of their gentleness. They are all strong as men and gentle as woman. He believes that they are this way because it makes life easier and gives their children no worries “and the children’s needs disappears” (Wells Chapter 4). The Time Traveller believes that them being this way makes their life easier in general. This is thousands of years later and humans are still changing. Darwin’s idea is that humans will continue to evolve. Which fits what the Time Traveller theorized, the humans evolved to look the same and all act childish to make living less