Carl Marx’s Capitalism is touted, in the book, as playing a role of an indiscernible time bomb which – if not checked– will eventually explode and self-destruct humanity. In all, Wells brings us to the reality that, despite man having to establish himself as the master of the universe and all creation, he lacks the power to control his own fate or tip the scale of immortality to his favour.īy Wells’s masterpiece, the reader sees a clear construction of anti-capitalism theory. He notices the sun has lost its shine – and the moon its shimmer. We see, in chapter eleven, how the time traveller stumbles further into a bleak date in the future where he finds himself by the beach with no signs of human life – except for a scanty sighting of washed-off algae and giant crustaceans. With respect to all the hard work put in by man in terms of innovation and technological progress to make living better and enjoyable, the resultant futuristic outcome for man is tipped, in the book, to amount to non-existence: a state of nothingness. Humanity Extinction and Universe’s Endures In the future, it turns out that our present-day man would evolve into two different species in the form of Morlocks and Eloi. History is snubbed while Charles Darwin’s concept is embraced but not without a strange twist of things. In the book, we see in the years 802, 701 AD that man’s evolution through time is drastic and rapid, the result of which the time traveller himself finds hard to piece between the two worlds’ species.

Wells’s Time Machine springs out a rather severe and opposing perspective that bears a striking resemblance with that of the sciences. While the timelines of history purport man as an unchanging being that would go on to last forever in its present form, H.G. The Time Machine Themes Continuity of Human Evolution A total peek into the windows of the future, Wells’ masterpiece shows us how even the most superior of technological advancements cannot alter the perilous fate of humanity.

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells