Summary:
A book summary of the science-fiction classic "The Time Machine" by H.G. Wells. The plot takes place with the main character, the inventor of the time-travel machine, traveling 800,000 years into the future to be encounter with bizarre races of animal-like people.
In "The Time Machine" all of the basic plot revolves around one man's great invention of the time machine. The main character in this story is the Time Traveller, who tells his amazing adventures to his fellowship and friends.
The Time Traveller spent years and years researching and perfecting his invention, until finally he finished it. Once he did, he decided to travel more then 800,000 years into the future, meeting a great new Earth, completely different from the one was accustomed to. There were now new rulers of the earth, very unlike humans. The Morlocks were spider-like, subteranean dwellers who were extremely vicious and cunning. The Time Traveller also met another race - the Eloi. The Eloi were a much more peaceful and tranquil race. There were also considerably more timid, small and weak, almost like children.
The Time Traveller first met the Eloi. He was welcomed by them as a God. They brought him into their homes. When the Time Traveller landed, there was an explosion and a flash of light, so the Eloi believed he was a great God from the Sun. They were quite a daft people, especially for the year 802, 701. The Time Traveller soon learns that the Eloi are a race which only purpose is to feed another. The Morlocks bred the Eloi to be totally ignorant of their surroundings, never to fight back, and to be fruitful and multiply, so that they could have a steady food supply. The Morlocks live underground, and work all day, and then travel up the long, narrow shafts to aboveground, to feed.
When the Time Traveller landed, he left his unknowingly left his Time Machine unprotected, out in the open. The Morlocks took it, and locked it up inside a sphinx statue in the middle of the square. In order to travel back to his own time, he had to travel down to the dwelling of the Morlocks. Once he was down there, the only way he could keep the Morlocks from ripping him apart was to blind them with his matchbook. Once he noticed that he only had three matches left, he made a run for the exit, just barely making it back out.
After the Time Traveller eluded the grasp of the Morlocks, they lured him into the Sphinx Statue where his Time Machine was being kept. Once he ran into the Statue, a group of Morlocks jumped him, hoping to capture him, but the Time Traveller fought back, using the levers from his Time Machine that he removed as a club, to bash some skulls. He fought off the Morlocks, and made it into his Time Machine, and successfully returned to his own era, to tell of his adventure to all of his followers.
Throughout the whole novel, the Time Traveller is the most cunning, powerful figure in the plot. He is always in control, and knows what is going to happen next. When he goes underground with the Morlocks, he suddenly loses control of the situation, and doesn't know how to respond and take back control at first. He ventured into the lion's den, and needed to get out. The Morlocks are the only confrontation in the whole book. They are also the only ones that ever pose a threat or challenge the Time Traveller, throughout the whole book, he is omnipotent.
Once he travels 800,000 years into the future, life should be advanced tenfold, yet earth is ruled by hairy spiders who live underground and are warded off by a box of matches. This species which rules the earth in 802, 701 seem extremely useless for the amount of time they had to evolve. They seem to have made no scientific, mathematical or ethical advances whatsoever. This species looks to have devolved in many ways. All the Morlocks did all day was craft useless inane objects for the Eloi to use, then came up at night to feast on the Eloi. It makes no sense. How can the two sole species on earth 800,000 years later, be satisfied to just make clothes, and eat? This part of the book makes no sense.
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