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While the Eloi lived above ground the Morlocks where kept in a much more out of the way place. a diabolic or demonic world beneath the surface inhabited by the brutish creatures who spend most of their time in the darkness in underground machine shops (Haynes 13). While the societies lives is so different the races depend on each other in many ways. While the Eloi are frail and weak thy cannot do much. This has caused them to become reliant on the Morlocks for food. The Morlocks supply the Eloi with food at night, they eat only fruit.  Fruit by the by, was all their diet. These people of the remote future where strict vegetarians and while with them, in spite of some carnal cravings, I had to be forgivers also (Wells 25).Since the terrain of the future was almost perfectly in tune to man they Morlocks had few choices for food. everywhere are beautiful flowers and fruit, and no animals of insects-nature is seemingly perfect subjugation to man (Hillgeas 430). Thus the Morlocks had only one source of a meat source.  Some way down the cCHNKWKS zTEXTTEXTgFDPPFDPPjFDPCFDPClSTSHSTSHnSTSHSTSHn2SYIDSYIDPnSGP SGP dnINK INK hnBTEPPLC lnBTECPLC nFONTFONTn<TOKNPLC n4STRSPLC o:PRNTWNPRZoH FRAMFRAMxTITLTITL*yDOP DOP >yem. The other side of this belong toCJ Lodge Mrs. .Jolly CP English 12 6 March 2005 The Ideals of The Time Machine HG Wells is always very interested in societies in which the characters represent something. In HG Wells s book ,The Time Machine, he chooses around three major topic to explore. He makes use of his characters to display a interdependences between societies, where the two different societies depend on each other for food. He illustrates how evolution serves a major role in future societies by shaping the things living in them. He also gives you an idea about his views on Utopia by showing that a future society where everything is  perfect has a major flaw. He shows all these major topic many times in his novels and The Time Machine is a great novel to portray almost all of his ideas and beliefs on all of these subjects. In The Time Machine, there are two societies consisting of a weak side, which are called the Eloi, and a strong society, called the Morlocks.  The time traveler finds that in the year of 802701 A.D. that adaptation has divided the human race into two distinct( and degenerate) sub-species  (West 12). He created these two different sub species of people for a reason which many believe has influences from his present time..  The Eloi and the Morlocks are apart, just are earlier in the ninetieth century the widening of the social differences between the capitalist and laborer had become more pronounced (Hilgeas 421). But while these societies are widening apart from each other there will always be something in which draws both together for survival. The race of the Eloi are a frail race. They are feeble and must rely on help and are much like children.  The Eloi in The Time machine Wells created a literary symbol. The Eloi desire above all else to exile themselves frentral vista was a little table laid with what seemed to be a meal. The Morlocks at any rate where carnivorous (Wells 46).Therefore HG wells decided to use his two different races of  human beings that depend on each other for food. While the ideas of this is uncomfortable for some people, the thought of people eating each other is quite normal in the animal kingdom. With a animal kingdom consisting of only two kinds of species they must in theory provide food for each other for survival making it less of a scary thing to think about and making it more common place. . The next theory HG Wells decide to explore with The Time Machine is the theory of human evolution. Wells believed that by looking at parts of out civilization as a whole to can find weaknesses that would shape our future. Wells believed that through utopias we would eventually become weaker and weaker .His basic theory was as the human race would become more and more comfortable with our surrounds we would adapt just as we have into to strong beings we are now but it could have an opposite affect. Thus theory is explored in just about every part of the novel starting with the Eloi .Eloi are the race signified that they do not have to work and will always be happy .Thus allowing them to become weak over time as they would never encounter any problems. and so the inhabitants of the utopia, above ground evolved into a feeble pretense a process which constitutes one of the major criticisms of thee twentieth century ideas of the utopia (Hillgeas 431).Many people also think that s these are takes on his modern times. IN the time of HG Wells s writing it was the industrial revolution. That basically had two kinds of people there was a rich upper class. They Like the Eloi Had to do nothing they would just sit back and allow everything to be done. He reaches the goal that nineteenth century progress is tend toward only to find that in the absence of any challenge to initiative, its inhabitants have devolved into the puny and unintelligent Eloi (Draper 3) There was people to do what ever they want HG wells to this into consideration and thusly made his Eloi a evolved version of present time people. his present parody of both Christian and Marxist beliefs, while Scrutinizing the natural aims of the industrial civilization ( Draper 3).The other half of society in the industrial Revolution where the workers. As HG wells even said in his book many times People will Use other places never used for such things in order to create a place for unsightly labor. There is a tendency to utilize underground space for less ornamental purposes of civilization (Wells 41). The idea of people working underground was not something that was uncommon. The people of the industrial revolution used to put some of the more ugly things. Thus these people have evolved into The Morlocks. This can usually be inferred from the fact that when they presented them in there home they are shown with machinery. But as I said to myself  you are in for it now and feeling my way along the tunnel I found the noise of the machinery grow louder (Wells 44).The Idea of this utopia making species weak must have another side. The Morlocks have become the dominate species now. This fact is much different from the ideas that many people believe, because what was the upper class is actually being ruled by the lower class. And the worst part of this equation is that the under ground civilization are the stronger side of the two, and they treat the Eloi not as a equal species but more as live stock.  worse still, these descendents of the ruling class have now become the meat supply of the descendents of the working class, the subterranean Morlocks (Draper 3).Therefore the Eloi are now weak  to the notion a humanity degenerating inevitably from sheer pressure of physical comfort  (Zargwill 487).Which is mirrored by the Morlocks becoming now the rulers. This is quit a strong message sent by Wells shown by many critics on this subject . Is that idea that an evolutionary trend would make a man a more intellectual animal and might also make him a much less human one (Berganzi 538).And create a strong message from which people will continue to learn. The evolution theory is very basically his idea of degeneration and leads very well in to wells theories on utopia. He showed his ideals on utopias all thought out the novel very well. Wells started with just the setting showing his ideas on utopias. When the time traveler arrives at the future he is hard pressed to find any sign of life. He cannot find anything that would resemble his original world in the form of animals as quoted earlier in this paper he displayed no signs of animal life.  everywhere are beautiful flowers and fruit, and no animals of insects-nature is seemingly perfect subjugation to man (Hillgeas 430).Then Wells started using the scenery as a device to display his vision of a utopia, when the time traveler arrived there he began to look around and to describe the terrain. He used the landscape to tell the reader that the plain was new and that it looked almost perfect if viewed correctly. the landscape was a misty and vague, I was still on the hill side upon which this house still stands and the shoulder rose above me gray and dim (Wells 17).The next thing Wells did to show the reader how the ideals of his utopia was to slightly hint to his societies by revealing hints to the Morlocks. He did this by showing shafts which went toward the ground that he could not explain but asked the reader to fill in the holes and was a nice way to show the difference of how Wells wanted the two sides of humans to be. How was it related to the indolent serenity of the beautiful upper worlder? And what was hidden down there, at the foot of that shaft (Wells 100)? The next thing was to describe the building to the reader, he made all the building seem very large as to create a sense of a higher order. a great heap pf granite, bound together by mass of aluminum, and so a labyrinth of precipitins walls and crumbled heaps amidst which thick heaps of very beautiful faota like plants stood (Wells 27). He went on to describe them I further detail. Already I saw vast shapes huge buildings with parapets and tall columns with a wooded hillside in upon me through the lessening storm (Wells 19). Wells was so fixed on his new scenery that he spent large amounts of the opening of the book to describe them  I looked up again at the crouching white shape, and the full temerity of my voyage suddenly came upon me (Wells 18).Many Critics says the fact that he used so much space from the beginning of his novel was to try to impact the reader. He felt that by describing this new scenery he could convey that the future is this very grandiose place where everyone lives in giant buildings.  these buildings of utopia and the first manifestation of wells familiar preoccupation with housing and the physical features of the future ( Hillgeas 430). Wells Used the same thing to describe all of the houses and such of his new world and would also use it to describe things that where small.  The big doorway opened and a proportionately great hall hung with brown fabricate. The roof was and shadow and could not be seen (Wells 22).Then next Wells manipulated his characters actions to show his new utopia. Everyone was dressed the same and all had almost exactly similar physical features.  Their hair ,which was uniformly curly came to a sharp end at the neck and cheek; there was not the faintest digestion on the face and their ears were singularly minute (Wells 20).They all has similar features and lived as a community. Many people think that the Eloi had a strange similarities to communism because of the sharing and because of the group housing. There is first of all , the fleeting vision of the world of the Eloi as an Arcadian and communism at the beginning of The Time Machine ( Perrinder 2). There were associations to government showing another way how wells has problems with societies. In Wells s work he shows how he personally does not like utopian societies because as the society become perfect the inhabitants start to be come to comfortable and eventually all of the humanity actually starts to fall apart. The too-perfect serenity of the upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration to a general dwindling in size strength an in intelligence (Well 43).The people of the above world appeared to be intelligent often making him feel out of place to it the ideals of a utopia..  I Might seem some old-world savage animal, only more dreadful and disgusting for our common likeness a foul creature to be incontinently slain (Wells 19). But actually wells shows that the hero the time traveler is more sophisticated person than the Eloi. So through his imaginative work of scenery and landscapes making theme immense and seemingly flawless and then turning around and showing their perfect society as having major flaws showed that Wells was against the fundamentals of a utopia. In conclusion HG Wells has shown through works specifically through his use of the two sets of characters the Eloi and Morlocks of The Time Machine how two completely different society s can be interdependent of each other for life, how Evolution of mankind through us becoming lazy and weak because of a over simplified lifestyle and, how he personally feels about the ideals of utopias. He shows how easily the weak can become strong and how quickly the strong can become weak. 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