The Time Machine

Description

One of the earliest science fiction stories ever written, the Time Machine by H.G. Wells in 1895 created a concept that had popular culture buzzing-the invention of a machine capable of moving through time.

The novel follows the story of an unnamed protagonist known as “The Time Traveller,” who invents a machine capable of traveling through time. In this, he travels to a far-off future where he finds the world filled with two distinct races: the gentle, childlike Eloi and the wicked underground Morlocks. As he spends time in this strange future, he realizes that the two species have evolved from humans but now live in a starkly divided society, with the Eloi dwelling on the surface as if living in paradise, and the Morlocks are masters of life underground.

The novel unfolds with themes such as social class disparity, evolution, and what humanity may look like in the future. The more the Time Traveller learns of the Morlocks, their predatorial nature, and the real nature of his kind, he is confronted with some very disturbing reality about civilization and survival.

In the novel The Time Machine, Wells makes an attempt at social and scientific aspects of the time, elevating a total picture of all detrimental impact from industrialization and division into separate classes. It ends vaguely; the ending brought the reader into dilemmas of human fate. Due to its creative imagination and thought provoked by imaginative ideas, The Time Machine remains one of the classics of the science fiction literature.