View of humanity ( The Time Machine by H.G. Wells :: essays research papers

H.G. WellsThe Time automobileMischel Figusch Englisch-LK Jg. 13The view of human raceity in The Time Machine-Essay This move is about the view of humanity that arises from The Time MachineIt includes the TTs speeches and his theories about how the Eloi and the Morlocks came to be. It also shows that Wells haunts at critical aspects on society.The beginning hints at Wells political attitude are already noticeable in the beginning of the novel To discover a society, give tongue to I, erected on a strictly communistic basis.(page 10, line 19)By the manakin of Eloi and Morlocks, he warns of Capitalism and its consequences to mankind. This vision which is presented in The Time Machine shows or rather forecasts the results of the social split between the leisurely wealthy amphetamine class and the working class, especially in the Victorian England. The increasing maturement of the division between upper and lower class will lapse into a big disaster in further future. The intellig ence of the human species is going to be at an unthinkable minimum. All achievements in culture, engineering and knowledge will be vanished. You see I had always pass judgment that the people of the year Eight Hundred and Two Thousand special(a) would be incredibly in front of us in knowledge, art, everything. and then one of them suddenly asked me a question that showed him to be on the understanding level of one of our five-year-old children-- asked me, in fact, if I had come from the sun in a thunderstorm (page 38, line 4 11)The reason for this devolutionary evolution is the non-existence of the demand to learn more, or rather to use the learned or delicate things. Knowledge and accordingly advancement of knowledge hasnt got a significance anymore. In one of his former theories, the TT assumes that the Morlocks, the inferior race (at this focus in time) which lives in the underworld, are the direct outcome of Englands East-end worker, who already live in such artificial conditions as practically to be cut off from the natural surface of the earth. (page 77, line 17)The Time Machine can be seen as Wellss socialist process of monition of what will befall humanity if capitalism continues to exploit worker for the benefits of the rich.