The Time Machine
The story begins with an assembly of men in their usual discussion group; the group consists of an assortment of different classes of men with, somewhat, conflicting political and philosophical views on society. One of the characters at the discussion group, who refers to himself as I, is retelling the whole story to the reader. The protagonist of the story, known to the reader as "The Time Traveler," opens the discussion on the first night with the possibility of manipulating the fourth dimension, time. The group expands conversation on the idea with some similar and some conflicting notions. The discussion itself soon elaborates into a heated deliberation between "The Time Traveler" and another member of the group Filby. Eventually "The Time Traveler" comes to tell the group of his own experiment using his philosophies and hypothesis on time travel, and in order to test his hypothesis "The Time Traveler" has made a model which he will use to test his theory on time travel. group all agrees to keep an open mind on the experiment, and not jump to any immediate conclusions by calling the model an illusion if it works. "The Time Traveler" sets the model on the table and throws the switch; the model then disappears and successfully t
Englishman H. G. Wells worked as a writer, historian, and philosopher from the latter 19th century through the mid 20th century. Wells questioned society's chances for survival in a world in which technological advances outpaced intellectual development. Best remembered for his inventive stories of fantasy, technology, and the future. For a time he was a member of the Fabian Society. He envisioned a utopia in which the vast and frightening material forces available to modern men and women would be rationally controlled for progress and for the equal good of all. (CD-ROM. 1996. Encarta Encyclopedia) . H. G. Well's sensitivity to the working class is shown in his depiction of the future world. This description of the working class is symbolic of the way the rich of the 20th century conduct every day life with the working class society. As if Wells himself was saying, "You can drive us into the ground, but your lack of human respect will catch up with you in the end." And the rain upon arrival ravels into time. Filby is astonished, yet still somewhat disproving because the machine wasn't built to travel to a point were it could once again reappear. To Filby there still wasn't enough evidence to prove "the Time Traveler's" theory. "The Time Traveler" then confessed to the group that he had been diligently working on a life-size model of the time machine, which was nearing completion. After seeing this, the storyteller recalls, "None of us knew quite how to take it." next Thursday the group met once again at "The
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Approximate Word count = 1027
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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