What is the theme in 'The Time Machine"?

Question

Please help me!

Answer 1

H. G. Wells was worried about the future of technology. His stories highlighted these problems. Wells was a pessimist and Jules Verne didn't like most of his work because of this.

The novel Time Machine proposed the idea that man could provide his own undoing. The surface dwellers had a paradise, except for the threat of the underground dwellers, they represented advanced technology gone wrong.

In the Food of the Gods he stated that artificial enhancement to life forms may not always be a good thing. In the War of the Worlds he stated the idea that advanced technology can cause devastation. The theme that he didn't know he was making in The War of the Worlds is that when a technologically advanced society makes contact with a less technological society, the society with the lower technology level suffers.

Okay, I have given you a hint; your job is to find evidence, in the novel, to back up that theme OR to prove me wrong. You also need to find evidence that the author was a pessimist. Where in the novel did he point out something that showed what was wrong with his future society and how could he have shown it as something good. Then study the man himself and ask yourself why I call him a pessimist.

Do your own homework! I expect an email with your answer to these questions and support for your answers.

Answer 2

A continuing class struggle even 800,000 years in the future is the most obvious theme in "The Time Machine".
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Answer 3

Fantasy book. have u seen the movie with tom Cruise, where he fights against aliens? I don't remember the title of this movie, but the theme of it is the same as in "Time Machine"

Answer 4

Ultimately, we are all screwed.