The Time Machine is a sci-fi dystopian novel which warns readers of the future of negative consequences of progress and capitalism through the fragile Eloi, monstrous Morlocks, and the widening of the gap in between the social classes present in capitalism as it evolves.
Key point
Wells builds on the ideology of social classes in the Victorian culture to present a warning sign of the two classes in capitalism of a widening gap between the rich and the poor
Closer
Wells showcases a different perspective to present the negative consequences of capitalism on humanity as he travels to the future to find a gap between the two social classes that has created different species