The Time Machine

A detailed Summary of The Time Machine

There are numerous people in society who lack certain skills that they need for survival.

These people may lack intelligence and depend on other human beings to help them get

through life. However, most of the time, it is there fault that they lack these necessities. In

"The Time Machine" by H.G Wells, the Eloi had this problem. They were victims of their

own weaknesses because they didn't understand that learning these important skills was

When he arrived in the future, The Time Traveller, after seeing and hearing the

Eloi, concluded that they had an extremely low intelligence compared to the people that

lived in his time. They were often described as and compared to little children. "Then one

of them asked me a question that showed him to be on the intellectual level of one of our

of these fears was darkness, which he found out from his friend Weena who was an Eloi.

would have to stop playing games all day and get serious. Unfortunately, they paid the

the one thing dreaded." (87) When the sun set at night, the Eloi would all go inside their

houses. The Time Traveler noted that he never saw an Eloi outdoors, or alone indoors

possessed. The fact that the Time Traveller lived 800,00 years in the past led him to

the right from wrong. On the other hand, they should have realized that eventually they

in bathing in the river, in making love in a half-playful fashion, in eating fruit and sleeping.

believe that over time, the generations got less and less intelligent and more involved with

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Category: English

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