The Time Machine: A Brief Review
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The father of science fiction novel, H. G. Wells (1866-1946) wrote ‘The Time Machine’ in 1895. The Novel highlights the disillusionment and disappointment of modern science. The tale claims of science to improve life seem hollow as inequality and oppression aggrandized with the progress of science. The horror of progress is shown by the morlocks- Eloi division in future. Dreams of socialism and communism turned into nightmares. Time traveller although travelled ahead but he sees regression and capitalist dominated world. Morlocks (working class) feed Eloi (capitalist class). They live subterranean and nocturnal where as Elio live upper ground superior and authoritarian.
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