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A 5 page paper which considers why Wells articulated such pessimistic views of the futures in his most famous works, including “The Time Machine,” “The Invisible Man,” and “The War of the Worlds.” Bibliography lists 14 sources.
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one-time biology teacher) had a lifelong fascination with the possibilities of science, but he feared, as did Mary Shelley before him and his literary contemporary George Orwell (among others) that
technology would reign supreme and hold future civilizations captive. Born in Kent, England in 1866 to a working-class shopkeeper and housekeeper, Herbert George Wells apparently developed his pessimistic nature
at an early age (Herbert George Wells). Referring to himself in the third person, Wells recalled, "In 1867 he was a small and extremely troublesome infant. He felt things
vividly and expressed himself violently. He had, one day, a great and terrible adventure. It must have seemed like the end of the world to him. He was lying on
a sofa and he rolled about upon it and fell off. He must have been scared by that fall. But also he fell on a glass bottle. It broke. He
was cut very dreadfully about the face. This body I have with me to-day still bears a scar over one eye... What a storm of feeling, what a fuss it
must have been!" (Leach 80-81) This early childhood mishap seemed to have left an indelible scar on Wells psyche, which eventually led
the young Darwinist to embrace the "cosmic pessimism" offered by the philosophy of Thomas Huxley (Scheick 46). While Wells was convinced that the principles of evolution were accurate, he
did not necessarily regard these changes as progressive (Achenbach 110). Many of his works pondered the restlessness of man (which is certainly the impetus of science) and often wondered
whether evolution, whether physical or man-made, was actually moving the world toward utopia or a perfect world, or if instead it was simply escalating Armageddon. At least prior to
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