How Does One Way To Regret The Sphinx In The Time Machine?
To: Timothy J. Juntilla, Department of English
From: Aima Choudry
Date: September 22, 2014
Re: Project Proposal for Paper #1
I. Introduction:
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, a novel about a mans journey through the future or criticism to the evolution of human race? The time traveller sets out on this journey not knowing what he would find or see in the year 802,701. When he arrives he comes across people known as the Eloi. The Elois are uneducated, small beautiful creature who don’t work or have any political issues. What seems at first like a utopian society that he heard of in the 19th century turns out to be quite different as he finds out about the Morlocks. The Morlocks live underground and are the “working class” creatures that …show more content…
consume Elois. By providing these two different class wells is trying to prove devolution of society through the knowledge of the “upper class” and “lower class” in the Victorian Era. Throughout the Time Machine H.G Wells tries to demonstrate how the class systems have changed, not just differentiating through rich and poor, but instead displaying how they have evolved into two different species over time. social class is causing degeneration and devolution
II. Annotated Sources:
Sayeau, Michael “H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine and the “Odd Consequence” of Progress”
Sayeau’s article starts off directly addressing the time traveller and begins to talk of his understanding of Wells. Sayeau gets straight to the point and begins to talk about the Eloi, he discusses different reactions to several aspects of the book. From there he elaborates further on the Eloi and who they are which leads on to the role of the morlocks which is a different analysis than the characters before. This article can be very useful while writing an essay on the Eloi and Morlocks because the author really goes in depth about two main and things which are in fact the Eloi and the Morlock. Having a source that elaborates on both creatures and on Wells’s perspective will help me to demonstrate how I can go further into the change and devolution of society that occurs throughout The Time Machine
Semanksy, Chris “ Critical Essay on ‘The Time Machine’”
Semanskys article analyzes the book in several ways upon the topic of progress. Semansky tries to show how the time traveler sees his society's downfall and self destruction. He discusses both the Darwin and Marx theories of a “classless society being inevitable” in comparison to Wells. From there he further elaborates on the Morlock and Eloi, how they have evolved from our capitalist ways. This is a beneficial source for my essay due to the elaboration on progress. The relationship between the Eloi and Morlocks that Semansky shows helps to prove the downfall and destruction of society, through no one other than the capitalism of our own time. Analyzing Darwinism and Marxism during the time of The Time Machine we see how Wells views the progression in a different perspective.
Huntington, John “The Logic of Fantasy”
Huntington’s article discusses how the topics discussed in The Time Machine connect to modern day. Although Huntington’s article, mainly discusses the Eloi and Morlock class system, he manages to take many different aspects from within the book to compare as well. Near the End of the article we see huntington try to point out the fact that Wells tries to take a both pessimistic and optimist perspective about the future. Huntington talks about how our society is changing into this completely different society that Wells is trying to prove.I think that this article is going to be beneficial to my essay due to the fact that Huntington provides so much information about the Eloi and the Morlocks, who are the main topic to my paper. The way that Huntington elaborates on the little parts in The Time Machine, really help bring the idea of social change to a better understanding. Not only that but Huntington also uses key scenes from the book to demonstrate what Wells is trying to show through the words that he uses.
Hume, Kathryn “Eat Or Be Eaten: H.G Wells’s Time Machine”
Hume’s article discusses three main points, which include size, gender, and power. Throughout most of the article Hume tries to prove how these three characteristics play a large role in The Time Machine. She uses examples like the british empire to show how these characteristics play roles.Along with that she shows examples from the book using the Eloi and Morlocks with these characteristics, proving that these are the concepts intriguing the readers in Wells’s books. Hume’s article is an important aspect to my essay because I think that it can be really helpful while comparing the Eloi and Morlocks to the time traveller. The time traveller is someone who has all three of these characteristics so it shows how he is superior to the society that he has landed in, although we would expect it to be different. It is also helpful because this article doesn’t just stick to the Eloi and Morlocks but instead it explains more even in the Terminal Beach chapter as well, which could help make a well rounded essay.
III. Research Questions
1.How did the technological advancements affect the perspective that The Time
Machine was written from?
2. Justify why Wells out of all people would choose to write a book on this, does something/someone affect the way of his thinking?
3.Did Wells intend to have people interpret The Time Machine in different ways?
4. What reasoning might have lead to Wells creating two completely different species? 5.Does the time traveler go back to further understand or change our future from destructing in front of his eyes?
IV. Research Plan:
I. Introduction A. Thesis Statement: Throughout The Time Machine, H.G Wells tries to demonstrate how the class systems have changed, not just differentiating through rich and poor, but instead displaying how they have evolved into two different species over time.
This essay will discuss and analyze how capitalism evolves the society into different species over time
II. Victorian Era( England in the 1890's) A. The Class system (19th century)
1.The class systems were divided into the “upper class”, “middle class”,
“working class”, and the “lower class”. a.) The Upper class wealth to get an education and stay in the upper class, which in return provided them with power.
b.)The working class was expected to work only to fulfill the needs of the aristocratic. 2.Increase in Industrialization 3. The 19th century political power was under the control of those in the “upper class”, which showed why anyone other than upper class was never allowed in any political debate or decision. B. The Time Travelers society 1. Note the class system of those in the time travelers house. 2. Note who is present: the Medical Man , Psychologist, Mayor, the Very
Young Man, Filby, and the narrator. a.) Only upper class was invited to these dinners.
b.) The Psychologist(Brain), The Medical Man(Body), and the narrator are the only ones who attend both of the dinners.
c.) Note man is defined through profession. d.) We are immediately given proof of their social class through their these dinner gatherings. 3.Cody's Article: "The working classes, however, remained shut out from the political process, and became increasingly hostile not only to the aristocracy but to the middle classes as well. As the Industrial Revolution progressed there was further social stratification. Capitalists, for example, employed industrial workers who were one component of the working classes..”
4. The Victorian Era was prospering in technological advancements, Wells will show what this prosperity can lead to. C. The Revelation of the Time Machine: 1. The Time Traveler reveals a small model of his time machine. 2. Note that he allows someone other than himself to pull the lever, sending the machine into the future.
a.) As the guest begin to think about all the advantages is where we see the aristocratic mentality
3. “`It would be remarkably convenient for the historian,' the Psychologist suggested.
`One might travel back and verify the accepted account of the Battle of Hastings, for instance!'
`Don't you think you would attract attention?' said the Medical Man. `Our ancestors had no great tolerance for anachronisms.' `One might get one's Greek from the very lips of Homer and Plato,' the Very Young Man thought.”(Wells 8). III. The Sphinx Era A. The Confrontation of an Evolved World. 1.The time traveler travels 802,701 years into the future.
a.) He is thrown off the time machine, note the symbolization of being thrown off the “seat of power” b.) He begins to notice big buildings and a white statue. 2. Note the large white statue is sphinx and plays a large role in the time traveller's journey. a.) He leaves the time machine to explore.
3. Prince’s Article:“One way to interpret the sphinx in The Time Machine is to extend this analogy to human evolution, as David Lake does when he argues that because the “rise and fall of Man” is the primary subject of the novella, the sphinx, “this leprous, crumbling sphinx,” “represents the ‘three-legged’ stage, the decay of Man in the future world…”
4. The Time Traveler begins to fear what mankind had became. B. Discovery of the Eloi and the Morlocks 1. Note his reaction to the Eloi a.) Beautiful and graceful creatures b.) They spoke their own language and imitated what they heard.
2.Hume’s Article “All later descriptions use codes normally applied to women or children: mouths small and bright red, eyes large and mild, a language that sounds sweet and liquid and cooing and melodious.” a.) He thinks of the Eloi as his pet or as …show more content…
children.
b.)They are lazy and show signs of stupidity. c.) He is no longer fearful of the the future instead he sees himself holding the “power, size, and gender”(Hume).
3. His Findings a.) Note there are no single households anymore, only buildings. b.) They live a life of ease and no struggle, communist society. c.) There is no necessity for family. 4. Huntington’s Article: “ The inhabitants of the future have lost much of the erotic, intellectual, and moral energy that we generally associate with human beings and which it is the purpose of the usual pastoral to liberate. The society of the future is reduced to what in
1895 might be considered childish needs and pleasures, and it is under the terms of this radical diminution that the systems of spatial opposition work.”
5. Morlocks in comparison to the Eloi a.) Ape-like creatures who live underground
b.) Morlocks work for the Eloi. c.) We find an explanation to why the Eloi fear the dark, its because the
Morlocks hunt for Eloi at night.
d.) The Morlocks Fear light, hence why the Time Traveler uses a match around them a lot throughout the story. 6.) A further significance of the Morlocks can be seen in the fact that they are frequently referred to in terms of unpleasant animal life: thus they are described as, or compared with, "apes," "lemurs," "worms," "spiders," and "rats." One must compare these images with the traveller's original discovery…” 7.) Change in Society. a.) Humanity is no longer the way he had viewed it be b.) Note how Wells depicts that two species left in the social class system. The Upper class and the lower working class, Eloi and Morlocks. IV. Terminal Beach 1.From the year 802,701 he travels thirty million years into the future. a.) The Time traveller ends up at the “Terminal Beach” b.) Degeneration just continues and all forms of intellect seem to have diminished 2. Sayeau’s Article:“I fancied I saw some black object flopping about on this bank but it became motionless as I looked at it, and I judged that my eye had been deceived, and that the black object was merely a rock” (p. 115). a.) While travelling throughout time Wells shows the time traveler see earth as we know it change. b.) The Time Traveler sees no form of society or very little life still existing.
3. Sayeau’s Article:“From his dinner party at the focal point of an empire upon which the sun never set, the Traveller has ventured to a remote England, the end of England and the world, upon which the sun literally, physically, simply hangs on the western horizon. He eventually brings his machine to rest on a beach..” a.) The sun is dying coming to an end
V.Conclusion
A. Thesis Restatement:Throughout the Time Machine H.G Wells tries to demonstrate how the class systems have changed, not just differentiating through rich and poor, but instead displaying how they have evolved into two different species over time. social class is causing degeneration and devolution B. Analyze how society has diminished from what is today.
V. Progress and Work Ethic Throughout the progress of this I feel that I have accomplished a lot in terms of getting a better understanding of what exactly to add in my paper and what is irrelevant and unneeded.
What I have done right now is the outline of what I want my essay to look like or at least somewhat, my thesis, and a good idea of the quotes that will be imputed into my essay. I have put in about 20 hours into writing this, now that I have finished that I need to work on my essay structure more in depth and on a good conclusion for my essay. Seeing how much time was needed to put into this I think that I need to plan on setting aside at least 15 hours in planning and writing my
essay.
VI. Conclusion
None
Works Cited
Hume, Kathryn. "Eat or Be Eaten." The Time Machine. New York, NY: Norton, 2009. 202-12. Print.
Huntington, John. "The Time Machine." The Logic of Fantasy: H.G Wells and Science Fiction. New York, NY: Columbia UP, 1986. 32-55. Print.
Prince, John S. "The "True Riddle of the Sphinx" in "The Time Machine"" Science Fiction Studies 27.3 (2000): 543-46. JSTOR. Web. 22 Sept. 2014.
Sayeau, Micheal. "Contemporary Justice Review: Issues in Criminal, Social, and Restorative Justice." H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine and the “Odd Consequence” of Progress 8.4 (2005): 431-45. Web. 22 Sept. 2014.
Semansky, Chris. "Critical Essay on ‘The Time Machine’" Novels for Students. Vol. 17. N.p.: Gale, 2003. N. pag. Print.
Wells, Herbert G., and Stephen Arata. The Time Machine: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism. New York, NY: Norton, 2009. Print.
From: Aima Choudry
Date: September 22, 2014
Re: Project Proposal for Paper #1
I. Introduction:
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, a novel about a mans journey through the future or criticism to the evolution of human race? The time traveller sets out on this journey not knowing what he would find or see in the year 802,701. When he arrives he comes across people known as the Eloi. The Elois are uneducated, small beautiful creature who don’t work or have any political issues. What seems at first like a utopian society that he heard of in the 19th century turns out to be quite different as he finds out about the Morlocks. The Morlocks live underground and are the “working class” creatures that …show more content…
consume Elois. By providing these two different class wells is trying to prove devolution of society through the knowledge of the “upper class” and “lower class” in the Victorian Era. Throughout the Time Machine H.G Wells tries to demonstrate how the class systems have changed, not just differentiating through rich and poor, but instead displaying how they have evolved into two different species over time. social class is causing degeneration and devolution
II. Annotated Sources:
Sayeau, Michael “H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine and the “Odd Consequence” of Progress”
Sayeau’s article starts off directly addressing the time traveller and begins to talk of his understanding of Wells. Sayeau gets straight to the point and begins to talk about the Eloi, he discusses different reactions to several aspects of the book. From there he elaborates further on the Eloi and who they are which leads on to the role of the morlocks which is a different analysis than the characters before. This article can be very useful while writing an essay on the Eloi and Morlocks because the author really goes in depth about two main and things which are in fact the Eloi and the Morlock. Having a source that elaborates on both creatures and on Wells’s perspective will help me to demonstrate how I can go further into the change and devolution of society that occurs throughout The Time Machine
Semanksy, Chris “ Critical Essay on ‘The Time Machine’”
Semanskys article analyzes the book in several ways upon the topic of progress. Semansky tries to show how the time traveler sees his society's downfall and self destruction. He discusses both the Darwin and Marx theories of a “classless society being inevitable” in comparison to Wells. From there he further elaborates on the Morlock and Eloi, how they have evolved from our capitalist ways. This is a beneficial source for my essay due to the elaboration on progress. The relationship between the Eloi and Morlocks that Semansky shows helps to prove the downfall and destruction of society, through no one other than the capitalism of our own time. Analyzing Darwinism and Marxism during the time of The Time Machine we see how Wells views the progression in a different perspective.
Huntington, John “The Logic of Fantasy”
Huntington’s article discusses how the topics discussed in The Time Machine connect to modern day. Although Huntington’s article, mainly discusses the Eloi and Morlock class system, he manages to take many different aspects from within the book to compare as well. Near the End of the article we see huntington try to point out the fact that Wells tries to take a both pessimistic and optimist perspective about the future. Huntington talks about how our society is changing into this completely different society that Wells is trying to prove.I think that this article is going to be beneficial to my essay due to the fact that Huntington provides so much information about the Eloi and the Morlocks, who are the main topic to my paper. The way that Huntington elaborates on the little parts in The Time Machine, really help bring the idea of social change to a better understanding. Not only that but Huntington also uses key scenes from the book to demonstrate what Wells is trying to show through the words that he uses.
Hume, Kathryn “Eat Or Be Eaten: H.G Wells’s Time Machine”
Hume’s article discusses three main points, which include size, gender, and power. Throughout most of the article Hume tries to prove how these three characteristics play a large role in The Time Machine. She uses examples like the british empire to show how these characteristics play roles.Along with that she shows examples from the book using the Eloi and Morlocks with these characteristics, proving that these are the concepts intriguing the readers in Wells’s books. Hume’s article is an important aspect to my essay because I think that it can be really helpful while comparing the Eloi and Morlocks to the time traveller. The time traveller is someone who has all three of these characteristics so it shows how he is superior to the society that he has landed in, although we would expect it to be different. It is also helpful because this article doesn’t just stick to the Eloi and Morlocks but instead it explains more even in the Terminal Beach chapter as well, which could help make a well rounded essay.
III. Research Questions
1.How did the technological advancements affect the perspective that The Time
Machine was written from?
2. Justify why Wells out of all people would choose to write a book on this, does something/someone affect the way of his thinking?
3.Did Wells intend to have people interpret The Time Machine in different ways?
4. What reasoning might have lead to Wells creating two completely different species? 5.Does the time traveler go back to further understand or change our future from destructing in front of his eyes?
IV. Research Plan:
I. Introduction A. Thesis Statement: Throughout The Time Machine, H.G Wells tries to demonstrate how the class systems have changed, not just differentiating through rich and poor, but instead displaying how they have evolved into two different species over time.
This essay will discuss and analyze how capitalism evolves the society into different species over time
II. Victorian Era( England in the 1890's) A. The Class system (19th century)
1.The class systems were divided into the “upper class”, “middle class”,
“working class”, and the “lower class”. a.) The Upper class wealth to get an education and stay in the upper class, which in return provided them with power.
b.)The working class was expected to work only to fulfill the needs of the aristocratic. 2.Increase in Industrialization 3. The 19th century political power was under the control of those in the “upper class”, which showed why anyone other than upper class was never allowed in any political debate or decision. B. The Time Travelers society 1. Note the class system of those in the time travelers house. 2. Note who is present: the Medical Man , Psychologist, Mayor, the Very
Young Man, Filby, and the narrator. a.) Only upper class was invited to these dinners.
b.) The Psychologist(Brain), The Medical Man(Body), and the narrator are the only ones who attend both of the dinners.
c.) Note man is defined through profession. d.) We are immediately given proof of their social class through their these dinner gatherings. 3.Cody's Article: "The working classes, however, remained shut out from the political process, and became increasingly hostile not only to the aristocracy but to the middle classes as well. As the Industrial Revolution progressed there was further social stratification. Capitalists, for example, employed industrial workers who were one component of the working classes..”
4. The Victorian Era was prospering in technological advancements, Wells will show what this prosperity can lead to. C. The Revelation of the Time Machine: 1. The Time Traveler reveals a small model of his time machine. 2. Note that he allows someone other than himself to pull the lever, sending the machine into the future.
a.) As the guest begin to think about all the advantages is where we see the aristocratic mentality
3. “`It would be remarkably convenient for the historian,' the Psychologist suggested.
`One might travel back and verify the accepted account of the Battle of Hastings, for instance!'
`Don't you think you would attract attention?' said the Medical Man. `Our ancestors had no great tolerance for anachronisms.' `One might get one's Greek from the very lips of Homer and Plato,' the Very Young Man thought.”(Wells 8). III. The Sphinx Era A. The Confrontation of an Evolved World. 1.The time traveler travels 802,701 years into the future.
a.) He is thrown off the time machine, note the symbolization of being thrown off the “seat of power” b.) He begins to notice big buildings and a white statue. 2. Note the large white statue is sphinx and plays a large role in the time traveller's journey. a.) He leaves the time machine to explore.
3. Prince’s Article:“One way to interpret the sphinx in The Time Machine is to extend this analogy to human evolution, as David Lake does when he argues that because the “rise and fall of Man” is the primary subject of the novella, the sphinx, “this leprous, crumbling sphinx,” “represents the ‘three-legged’ stage, the decay of Man in the future world…”
4. The Time Traveler begins to fear what mankind had became. B. Discovery of the Eloi and the Morlocks 1. Note his reaction to the Eloi a.) Beautiful and graceful creatures b.) They spoke their own language and imitated what they heard.
2.Hume’s Article “All later descriptions use codes normally applied to women or children: mouths small and bright red, eyes large and mild, a language that sounds sweet and liquid and cooing and melodious.” a.) He thinks of the Eloi as his pet or as …show more content…
children.
b.)They are lazy and show signs of stupidity. c.) He is no longer fearful of the the future instead he sees himself holding the “power, size, and gender”(Hume).
3. His Findings a.) Note there are no single households anymore, only buildings. b.) They live a life of ease and no struggle, communist society. c.) There is no necessity for family. 4. Huntington’s Article: “ The inhabitants of the future have lost much of the erotic, intellectual, and moral energy that we generally associate with human beings and which it is the purpose of the usual pastoral to liberate. The society of the future is reduced to what in
1895 might be considered childish needs and pleasures, and it is under the terms of this radical diminution that the systems of spatial opposition work.”
5. Morlocks in comparison to the Eloi a.) Ape-like creatures who live underground
b.) Morlocks work for the Eloi. c.) We find an explanation to why the Eloi fear the dark, its because the
Morlocks hunt for Eloi at night.
d.) The Morlocks Fear light, hence why the Time Traveler uses a match around them a lot throughout the story. 6.) A further significance of the Morlocks can be seen in the fact that they are frequently referred to in terms of unpleasant animal life: thus they are described as, or compared with, "apes," "lemurs," "worms," "spiders," and "rats." One must compare these images with the traveller's original discovery…” 7.) Change in Society. a.) Humanity is no longer the way he had viewed it be b.) Note how Wells depicts that two species left in the social class system. The Upper class and the lower working class, Eloi and Morlocks. IV. Terminal Beach 1.From the year 802,701 he travels thirty million years into the future. a.) The Time traveller ends up at the “Terminal Beach” b.) Degeneration just continues and all forms of intellect seem to have diminished 2. Sayeau’s Article:“I fancied I saw some black object flopping about on this bank but it became motionless as I looked at it, and I judged that my eye had been deceived, and that the black object was merely a rock” (p. 115). a.) While travelling throughout time Wells shows the time traveler see earth as we know it change. b.) The Time Traveler sees no form of society or very little life still existing.
3. Sayeau’s Article:“From his dinner party at the focal point of an empire upon which the sun never set, the Traveller has ventured to a remote England, the end of England and the world, upon which the sun literally, physically, simply hangs on the western horizon. He eventually brings his machine to rest on a beach..” a.) The sun is dying coming to an end
V.Conclusion
A. Thesis Restatement:Throughout the Time Machine H.G Wells tries to demonstrate how the class systems have changed, not just differentiating through rich and poor, but instead displaying how they have evolved into two different species over time. social class is causing degeneration and devolution B. Analyze how society has diminished from what is today.
V. Progress and Work Ethic Throughout the progress of this I feel that I have accomplished a lot in terms of getting a better understanding of what exactly to add in my paper and what is irrelevant and unneeded.
What I have done right now is the outline of what I want my essay to look like or at least somewhat, my thesis, and a good idea of the quotes that will be imputed into my essay. I have put in about 20 hours into writing this, now that I have finished that I need to work on my essay structure more in depth and on a good conclusion for my essay. Seeing how much time was needed to put into this I think that I need to plan on setting aside at least 15 hours in planning and writing my
essay.
VI. Conclusion
None
Works Cited
Hume, Kathryn. "Eat or Be Eaten." The Time Machine. New York, NY: Norton, 2009. 202-12. Print.
Huntington, John. "The Time Machine." The Logic of Fantasy: H.G Wells and Science Fiction. New York, NY: Columbia UP, 1986. 32-55. Print.
Prince, John S. "The "True Riddle of the Sphinx" in "The Time Machine"" Science Fiction Studies 27.3 (2000): 543-46. JSTOR. Web. 22 Sept. 2014.
Sayeau, Micheal. "Contemporary Justice Review: Issues in Criminal, Social, and Restorative Justice." H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine and the “Odd Consequence” of Progress 8.4 (2005): 431-45. Web. 22 Sept. 2014.
Semansky, Chris. "Critical Essay on ‘The Time Machine’" Novels for Students. Vol. 17. N.p.: Gale, 2003. N. pag. Print.
Wells, Herbert G., and Stephen Arata. The Time Machine: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism. New York, NY: Norton, 2009. Print.