The Time Machine is about the possibility of time travelling. In the story, one man succeeds in building a fully working time machine, and he uses it to travel into the future. The story was written during the Victorian times (1895), by H.G. Wells.

Lord of the Flies involves a group of boys who crash land on an island, in the middle of nowhere. It begins as paradise, but as the story goes on it turns out differently to what they expected. William Golding wrote the story, during the Cold War era. It was written after the Second World War. The times, in which wells and Golding lived in, reflected on what was written in each of their stories.

Wells lived in a time of peace and stability, as there hadn't been a major war for 30 years, which was in 1865. This had an impact on what Wells wrote about in his story. There was an influence on who and what the characters were in the story, and how they lived and did things. The Morlocks are very similar to the miners of the Victorian times. The Morlocks lived underground and in the dark. The miners didn't live underground, b

In the Time Machine the land of the Eloi is described as calm and peaceful, and like a summers day. "...The intense blue of the summer day", "...everything was calm and peaceful". It is a perfect world to live in, " The air was free from gnats, the earth from weeds or fungi; everywhere were fruits and sweet delightful flowers". The place where the Time Traveller first encounters the Eloi, the whole location is full of beautiful and exotic fruits. There seems to be an unlimited supply of fruit, showing that the place is like paradise, and they will never go hungry, "the fruits were very delightful, and seemed to be in season all the time I was there".

There are warning signs, even at the beginning, that everything will not be like paradise. In the Time Machine the White Sphinx was described as "...greatly weather-worn", and this lead to an unpleasant suggestion of disease. The Time Traveller feared that cruelty had grown into a common passion, and that he was going to get beaten up by the Eloi. The weather is beautiful when the Time Traveller first arrives in the land of the Eloi, but then it changes. The sky goes grey, mist covers the area, and then it hails exceptionally hard. The gloomy weather illustrates that the exploration will be difficult. The Time Traveller describes the experience of time travelling like "...the flapping of a bats wing". This is an unpleasant description, and gives us a clue that the time in which he arrives in will not be like paradise.

In the Time Machine, the descriptions become more threatening in the story. The Time Traveller finds out that there are more, different people to the Eloi. "A pair of eyes, luminous by reflection against the daylight without, was watching me out of the darkness", this was when the Time Traveller first spots a Morlock. The Morlocks are also described as "human rats".

The action also becomes more threatening in both stories. In the Time Machine the Time Traveller actually comes face to face with some of the Morlocks. "...While I stood in the dark a hand touched mine, lank fingers came feeling over my face. The Time Traveller also ends up fighting with the Morlocks, when he goes underground to look for his time machine. "...With a mace in my hand more sufficient, I judged, for any Morlock skull I might encounter.

I think H.G. Wells is saying that society is de-generating, and way into the future we will turn out just like the Eloi. He thinks that we will be small, frail, indolent, and unintelligent creatures, a bit like children of our own times. Golding thinks that there is a savage side to everybody and the need for survival is strong. He thinks that we all need a bit of both, that is savagery and civilisation. Golding thinks that necessity (survival) makes the people savages.

In the Time Machine, the Time Traveller keeps saying, "My original expectations of the future are incorrect". As the story goes on, the Time Traveller begins to realise that the land of the Eloi is not like paradise, and not what he expected it to be like. He discovers that the Eloi are not the only species, and that the Eloi are on

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