Wells keeps these question rather ambiguous throughout the story, but it does give a warning to the reader that maybe the The Time Traveler is not always to be trusted in his understanding of the future. Based on his unreliability it has to be asked, Was the meat that he found underground really an Eloi? Was he wrong in his assessment that all the mammals were extinct, maybe the Eloi only ate fruit as a choice. He is also constantly making claims based on very little evidence. The Time Traveler himself admits, in several places that his observations of the future world and its inhabitants were not always correct. Their several reasons for making this claim.įirstly, The Time Traveler seems to fit the mold of an “unreliable narrator”. In The Time Travelers treatment and description of the Morlocks, Wells reveals the fear and perhaps disgust upper-middle class Victorians felt towards lower, working-class people. A closer reading of The Time Machine reveals a social critique of Wells’ nineteenth-century culture. Looking closer at the book though, this reading does not seem to hold up. Wells’ The Time Machine, the reader might come way from reading it with the impression that the Morlocks are antagonists of the story, but are they really that bad? The creators of the movie adaptions of The Time Machine seem to think so, most of these adaptions emphasize the monstrosity of Morlocks.

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