View of humanity ( The Time Machine by H.G. Wells :: essays research papers

H.G. wellThe eon MachineMischel Figusch Englisch-LK Jg. 13The view of world in The conviction Machine-Essay This essay is about the view of servicemanity that arises from The Time MachineIt includes the TTs speeches and his theories about how the Eloi and the Morlocks came to be. It also shows that Wells haunts at critical aspects on society.The first hints at Wells political attitude are already noticeable in the beginning of the novel To kick downstairs a society, said I, erected on a strictly communistic basis.(page 10, contestation 19)By the example of Eloi and Morlocks, he warns of Capitalism and its consequences to mankind. This vision which is presented in The Time Machine shows or rather forecasts the results of the social split between the leisurely wealthy upper class and the working class, especially in the Victorian England. The increase development of the division between upper and lower class will lead into a big disaster in further future. The intelligence of th e human species is going to be at an unthinkable minimum. All achievements in culture, technology and association will be vanished. You see I had always anticipated that the passel of the year Eight Hundred and Two Thousand odd would be incredibly in front of us in knowledge, art, everything. Then one of them all at once asked me a question that showed him to be on the intellectual level of one of our five-year-old children-- asked me, in fact, if I had come from the sun in a thunderstorm (page 38, line 4 11)The reason for this devolutionary evolution is the non-existence of the necessity to learn more, or rather to use the learned or skilled things. Knowledge and accordingly advancement of knowledge hasnt got a meaning anymore. In one of his former theories, the TT assumes that the Morlocks, the inferior race (at this point in time) which lives in the underworld, are the direct solvent of Englands East-end worker, who already live in such artificial conditions as practically t o be cut off from the natural surface of the earth. (page 77, line 17)The Time Machine can be seen as Wellss socialist warning of what will befall humanity if capitalism continues to exploit worker for the benefits of the rich.