IntroductionSince the industrial revolution, technology has been advancing to make life easier. Progress has been made at a rapid pace and capitalism has played a part in this. Herbert George Wells wrote The Time Machine during the turn of the 20th century, the industrial revolution. Wells used the Victorian culture mindset to predict the outcome of this progress. He warns of the results on humanity from the societal thoughts and social class division in capitalism.
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Arguments
EloiEloi are fragile creatures that have evolved from humans but do not look as if they have progressed. They are as smart as a 5 year old, have humans really evolved?
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MorlocksThe cousins of the Eloi, hairy monsters that also evolved from humans. They eat Eloi but they are also evolved humans. What happen to humanity?
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DivisionWells warns us of the thoughts in the Victorian culture as he presents the future with two different species of human. He evolves the two social classes to two different species.
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Thesis
The Time Machine is a sci-fi novel which presents the negative consequences of humanity as a result of progress through capitalism because of the new evolved Eloi, man-made monsters known as Morlocks, and the widening of the gap in between the social classes present in capitalism as it evolves.