The Time Machine

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vancements. People like Wells began writing and foreseeing what it would be like to travel to the future. A famous phrase, says; ‘The Future is now’. This was exactly what the people of Wells’ time ought to have thought.

The audience distinguishes ‘The Time Machine’ as a novel written in the Victorian times. Through its use of language, compositions of words and phrases that are scarcely used or known in modern day, existing of the many are; ‘askew’, ‘stupor’ and ‘sconces.’ The introduction to the novel uses complex language to bewilder the audience. E.g. when the main character travels through time and foresees what as come of the future, he aims to baffle his Victorian audience. Wells uses ‘Scientific people’, such as the ‘Physiologist’ and the ‘Medical man’. To persuade his audience if scientific people believe his theory, then audience should consider what comes next is accurate.

Wells structures his novel as one may express a scientific theory, using frequent language references to science: ‘three dimension’, ‘ dimensional geometry’, and ‘philosophical’. This indicates that science is a major constituent of the narrative. As the story progresses, Wells uses a different approach to unfold the time traveller’s journey. Wells goes on to explain his hypothesis of the evolution of the Elois and Morlocks to be descendants of the upper and lower class civilisation. Therefore the work of fiction sounds more like an academic theory than a story.

There is reason to believe that if the book were written today, at least one female companion would’ve been present at the time. The matter that no females were involved in the first chapters, shows us that the story was written in a time, when the male citizens was dominated the females. This may be because science was considered science a male hobby; as a result women were not allowed to join.

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