THE Analysis of THE Time machine

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The
Time Machine has two main threads. The first is the adventure tale of
the Eloi and Morlocks in the year 802,701 AD. The second is the science
fiction of the time machine.

The adventure
story includes many archetypal elements. The Time Trave

ller's journey to the underworld, his fear of the great forest, and his
relationship to Weena, mirror imagery prevalent in earlier literature,
imagery strongly associated with the inner workings of the human psyche.

The tale of 802,701 is political commentary of late Victorian England.
It is a dystopia, a vision of a troubled future. It recommends that
current society change its ways lest it end up like the Eloi, terrified
of an underground race of Morlocks. In the Eloi, Wells satirizes
Victorian decadence. In the Morlocks, Wells provides a potentially
Marxist critique of capitalism.

The rest of the novella deals
with the science fiction of time travel. Before Wells, other people had
written fantasies of time travel, but Wells was the first to bring a
strong dose of scientific speculation to the genre. Wells has his Time
Traveller speak at length on the fourth dimension and on the strange
astronomy and evolutionary trends he observes as he travels through
time. Much of this was inspired by ideas of entropy and decay
promulgated by Wells's teacher, Thomas Henry Huxley.

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