The Time Machine

H.G.Well’s, The Time Machine, is a dystopian written in 1895 about a Time Traveller who after many attempts creates a Time Machine. The book starts as men arrive to the Time Travellers house eager to hear of the Time Travellers discovery. At these meetings the Time Traveler discusses his the Time Machine where groups of men arrive interested in his discoveries. The perspective of the novel is from a gentleman who is interested in what the Time Traveler has to say. At one of these meeting, the Time Traveler arrives late and the man whose perspective we are in is left feeling concerned. The Time Traveler then arrives disheveled leaving the men to question what has happened to him. This proceeds to the Time Traveler going into this story about how he traveled to 802701 AD and discovered a world far from what his victorian self is used to.

The year is not so far advanced from our own with tall grey buildings and a close burning sun. The Time traveler comes across the Eloi. These creatures are human like but average to about 4 ft tall. The time traveler then agree to go have a meal with them. When he returns to the place that he left the Time Machine, he finds that it is in fact missing. That night when he is looking for the Machine, which he decided is in a pedestal of a nearby statue, he stumbles across what the Elio call Morlocks, creatures that live underground. The story continues from there...

The Time Machine is one of those novels which is short but de to the extensive description and the scientific explanations it may feel like a longer read. Subjects such as Darwinism and Global Warming are discussed within the novel. Not to mention the questionable behaviour of our descendants and the idea that if we make life too 'comfortable' for us humans and don't challenged our selves, in the sense that the environment we life in is adapted to fit our needs, then we will evolve into a 'weaker' species.

I give the Time Machine 4/5 stars. Loosing a star for the fact that Weena (the female of the story) died for dramatic value. She is a fridged character. {The term (sometimes formed as "fridging") was popularised by comic book writer Gail Simone through her website "Women in Refrigerators." On that site, Simone compiled a list of instances of female comic book characters who were killed off as a plot device.}

On the whole, H.G.Well's work is a classic dystopian for a reason and set the sense for dystopians in the future and for that reason it is worth the read.

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