Time Machine Essay

The “Time Machine” by the author HG Wells is a science fiction novella that takes place in London in the year of 802,701. In the “Time machine” the main characters are Weena, the Eloi, and the protagonist is the Time Traveler and the antagonists are the Morlocks. The rising action in the Time Machine is when the Time Traveler gets stuck in the future and has to survive because the Morlocks are trying to kill him. In the Time Machine the conflict occurs when the Time Traveler arrives to the year of 802,701 and he meets creatures known as the Eloi, and has grown fond of them. When he’s finished exploring the new world he tries to return to his time machine but to only find it missing. In the Time Machine the climax is when the Time Traveler and Weena create a fire to provide protection from the morlocks. This leads to the fire to grow rapidly and create an enormous forest fire, and results in Weena to get lost and eventually killed. The Outcome in the Time Machine is, after the Time Traveler travels 30,000,000 years forward into the future he returns back to his home, but the only evidence he brings back with him are two flowers that Weena gave him and he doesn’t want to give them away to be studied on because they have too much sentimental value. So he travels back into the future and brings with him a Kodak camera, but he never returns back to his present time. In the Time Machine HG Wells uses tone to warn readers that capitalism will lead to mass separation in the human species. When the Time Traveler first arrives to the year of 802,701 he is confronted by the Eloi and is described by the author as fascinated and amazed, the author helps support the tone by the use of personification and simile. After the Time Traveler arrives to the year of 802,701 he begins to explore, and while he is exploring he comes across a particular object made of white marble and exclaims “It was of white marble, in shape something like a winged sphinx (Wells 21). The Time traveler