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This 13 page paper compares and contrasts two essays on Wells’s novella “The Time Machine,” and then examines six other sources as well. Bibliography lists 9 sources
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compares and contrasts them. Discussion The prompt for this essay is rather odd: it asks for two critiques to be compared and contrasted, but also requests eight sources. The sources
are all from the Literary Resource Center, a database of literary criticism that can be accessed through most libraries. However, the articles cover a wide range of topics. Therefore, the
best approach seems to be to analyze two pieces in depth and then see what the others add to a readers understanding of the novel. The two pieces selected are
"The Time Machine: An Ironic Myth" by critic Bernard Bergonzi and "The Mythic Hero in H. G. Wellss The Time Machine" by Robert J. Begiebing. These two are used because
they concentrate on the protagonist to a great extent than the others. As a matter of fact, Begiebing references Bergonzis work in his essay. He argues that Wells creates "scientific
romances" which have an "archetypal dimension" that reflect the work of people like Joseph Campbell and his studies of the mythic hero (Begiebing). "The mythic pattern I refer to is
that which Joseph Campbell calls the great monomyth of the hero (Begiebing). There is no doubt that the Time Traveller, who is never called anything else, is the hero of
the novel, and he goes through the tests and ordeals that Campbell says are necessary for the hero to develop the wisdom necessary to solve the problems at hand (Begiebing).
"By his violent journey into a mysterious and misunderstood dimension, the hero gains a wisdom that could, but probably will not, be the salvation of his species" (Begiebing). The Traveller
exists in the late 19th century, but he has "at least three characteristics of the primordial heroic figure" described by people like Campbell (Begiebing). (Joseph Campbells book The Power of
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