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A 3 page paper which compares and contrasts the 1895 novel with the two cinematic interpretations. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Machine (1895), his London-based protagonist known only as the Time Traveler is an inventor and storyteller who learns firsthand about the evil excesses of capitalism in the year 802,701 where
he encounters the Eloi, an illiterate, passive, and lazy group of humanoids that feast on fruit and live in what appears to be a modern-day Garden of Eden. However,
the ugly reality is that the Eloi are the superficial upper class that live above ground in a hollow world of leisure that has rendered them completely dependent upon the
trappings of capitalism. As envisioned by Wells, "Above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots, the Workers getting continually
adapted to the conditions of their labour" (Wells, 2004). The Eloi is incapable of fending off the nocturnal feeding frenzy of the Morlocks that represent the disgruntled working class
of the late nineteenth century. The traveler befriends Weena, but is no more able to save her than the Eloi are competent enough to save themselves from the predatory
Morlocks because they have sacrificed their survival instinct for complacency. The original version of The Time Machine was a Victorian era indictment of the British caste system and the
exploitation of laborers necessary to maintain its bourgeois lifestyle (Mitchell, 2002). However, as the novel points out, because the fourth dimension of time is constantly moving and required the
traveler to change in order to adapt, conventional logic follows that future interpretations of the work would have to change in order to remain relevant to contemporary audiences. The first
cinematic adaptation of The Time Machine was George Pals 1960 film, which was concerned about capitalism and class struggles than it was the consequences of technological warfare. David Duncans
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