The Time Machine | Social Sensitivity
Wells's theories of regressive evolution and his dissatisfaction with many of the social and economic factors of his own time contribute to the pessimistic tone of many sections of the novel. The traveller's philosophical discourses show that the unpleasant picture of the future need not be realized, however. Choices available to humans in 1895, and to humans today, can indeed change the course of the future for the better. Wells's shocking picture challenges the complacent view that "progress" left to itself always produces something better.
The traveller's first impressions of...
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