Jan 2, 2010

The Time Machine | Literary Qualities

Wells once said that the challenge faced by a writer of scientific romances is to "trick" the reader into accepting some plausible assumption and then to make the story as human and as real as possible, avoiding unnecessary fantastic elements. The humanness of the traveller is particularly evident in his efforts to understand the world in which he finds himself and in the scenes in which he feels his isolation from other humans. And even though the reader suspects that the idea of a "fourth dimension" stretches known scientific facts, the traveller's argument is developed so logically...