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    society reflect the projections made by people in previous years, decades, and centuries. In looking at the visions of the future presented by both novelas, The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, and The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster, each story presents aspects of society that prominently appear today. Written during the Industrial Revolution, a time where technology and human innovation was at one of its highest points in recent history, both stories explore the possible effects of the machinery that was

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    obstacles is the major theme in H.G. Wells novel titled, “The Time Machine”. This novel is about a time traveler who traveled far into the future and encountered strange humanoid creatures. The world was very different and another species called the Morlocks had stolen his Time Machine. The Time Traveler persevered through this and he eventually got his Time Machine back and he travelled back home. An example of the main theme in The Time Machine being how you should persevere through obstacles is found

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    I choose The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells, for my movie book comparison. H. G. Wells copyrighted it in 1895. Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux played the main characters in the movie. It was directed by George Pal and opened in the year of 1960. There were two main characters in the book and the movie. One of them was the time traveler, George, whom Rod Taylor played. And the other one was Weena, the child like woman that George the time traveler saves. Yvette Mimieux played her. Both the characters

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    his novel The Time Machine. H.G. Wells leaves the characters nameless in order to create a sense of equality among them. The very first thing Wells does is introduce the characters, because without them, there would be no audience to tell the story to. The characters are important to the novel, yet most of them remain nameless. They are

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    The Values of British Imperialism: Implications on a Futuristic Society H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine recounts the trip of a scientist, the Time Traveller, from Victorian England to the future where humanity has been reduced to two sub-species: the Eloi and the Morlock. The novella examines how key values of Victorian England, such as self-improvement, shape the social structure of the Victorian period and the cascading effects of these values on the society of the future. In the Victorian social

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    The Time Machine Essay

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    The Time Machine As I understand it, Darwin in his book ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES published in 1865, argues that natural selection leads to adaptive improvement. Or even, if evolution isn't under the influence of natural selection, this could still lead to divergence and diversity. At one time, there was a single ultimate ancestor, and from this, hundreds of millions of separate individual species evolved. This process where one species splits into two different species

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    Time Machine Fear

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    H. G. Wells’ novella The Time Machine is a story about the price for a life of luxury. Through his writing, he warns society of what could happen if they continued the path they were on. Arriving in the future, thanks to the time machine that Wells created, readers observe a world where society has split into two species. In Victorian England, there was a fear residing in the upper class that the working class would engage in an uprising and throw them from power. This brought the desire for security

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    Scientific research often emphasizes a common goal of creating perfection within humanity; the wish to manipulate nature to gain superiority technologically is a theme Wells touches upon in The Time Machine: “…[the] perfect state lack[s] one thing even for mechanical perfection – absolute permanency… however it [is] affected, [it] become[s] disjointed” (120). During the Victorian Era technology was just starting to become mechanized, this Industrial Revolution sought the perfection of machinery to

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    Plot Of The Time Machine

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    kills his fiancée, Emma, he devotes himself to build a time machine that will allow him to travel back in time and save her. When he completes the machine four years later, he travels back to 1899 and prevents her murder, only to see her killed by a horseless carriage. Alexander soon comes to realize that any attempt to save Emma will invariably result in her murder through other circumstances. Distraught, Alexander travels forward in time to 2030 to discover if, by then, science has been able to

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    thought of time travel to the consumers of science fiction: H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine. The novel speaks of times so far in the future and yet so similar to both Victorian Era England and the possibilities of the choices humankind has made since then. Let us take a journey to the year 802,701 and see what the future has in wait for us. The story begins in Victorian Era England at a dinner party between professionals. H.G. Wells used this theme to match many other novels of the time. Unlike those

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