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    people. The Morlocks and the Eloi. The Morlocks are smart and aggressive savages. While the Eloi are weak, helpless, and careless. In The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells, certain types of people evolved into what came to be the Morlocks and the Eloi. In our society today, there are many Eloi as we rely more on new science and technology. We have become more addicted and reliant to our own technology, like cellphones. We rely on drugs for almost every illness. For the Eloi of today’s society…

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    Dystopian Mass Shootings

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    violence in this future civilization; everyone, especially the Eloi, is happy all the time. But, this falls into one of the main characteristics of dystopian civilizations: a dumbed down, complaint population. The Time Traveler described the Eloi right away as “on the intellectual level of one of our five-year-old children” (39). The Eloi do not fight back against the norms and do not care for each other. In one instance, Weena, an Eloi, is drowning in front of everyone but no one does anything…

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    Victorian Time Travel

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    disbelieve it. The time traveller feels that as time goes on man should make great improvements to humanity, but, when he travels to the year 802,701 AD. he discovers that his own time seems as though its more advanced than the civilizations of the Eloi and Morlocks. After travelling through time, the time traveller discovers that the separation of man could be the fall of humanity. The…

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    The Time Traveler

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    At the start of chapter ten the Time Traveler returns to the same location where he watched the Eloi play in his first encounter with the future, but now he observes through a modified lens as he finally begins to realize what the true division between the Upper-world people and Under-grounders means. The Time Traveler is given narrative authority which allows Wells to use this personal approach to give a storytelling appeal to the expression that ignorance is bliss, “the same beautiful scene,…

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    The Time Machine Analysis

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    adjusted for light, are flexible and go after the Eloi. Both races show characteristics of both ruler and ruled, and, at last, there isn't a lucid social message along these lines. On the off chance that the vision Wells invokes is a notice, then it is indistinct whether it cautions against the decision classes debilitating to the point of getting to be prey, or of the abuse of the working man. Hence – the vast number of conceivable readings of the Elois and Morlocks – it's difficult to peruse…

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    background knowledge of Wells ' time, it is easier to understand the intentional or unintentional racism. From the start of the Time Traveler’s journey in the year 802,701 we can see moments of prejudice shown towards the newly found Eloi. When he first encounters the Eloi he expresses his disappointment towards the species that the humans evolve into. He does so by expressing how their stupidity…

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    descriptions of the Eloi and the Morlocks. Wells depicts the Eloi as a “Dresden china type of prett[y]. Their hair, which was uniformly curly…there was not the faintest suggestion of [hair] on the face and the ears were singularly minute. The eyes were large and mild; and … I fancied even then that there was a certain lack of the interest I might have expected in them. [The] people of the remote were strict vegetarians (Wells)” as well. From this description Wells gives the impression that the…

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    Greek Spoken Language

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    as one will simply be unable to community anything other than simple actions and objects. ANSWER: The Eloi communicated using only “concrete substantives” (also known as concrete nouns) and verbs. Concrete nouns are usually used in spoken speech to represent tangible objects that one can feel using one of the senses; verbs are used to describe a certain action. Considering the fact that the Eloi only communicate about actions and tangible objects, it becomes obvious that complex ideas would…

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    Dandelion Wine and The Time Machine are two very famous classics, and continue to work their way into everyone’s hearts to this day. The author’s purpose is also known as a theme, or symbol of the book. Both Dandelion Wine and The Time Machine have many themes, and symbols. These books are used in many programs that my foreign friends go to and use their English skills for good things. For example, my friend in India uses these books in his school. These books are great, and have many things to…

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    traveller has to rescue her. This events lead to their friendship developing and eventually developing into a romance. By rescuing weena he shows his heroism and his true personality. Around the time that the traveller finds out that the morlocks eat the eloi, by finding this out he wants to take weena and go back to his timeline in london. As soon as he mentions morlocks and time travelling she begins to cry because she is scared. He tries to calm her down by telling she will be safe if she…

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