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This 4 page paper examines H.G. Wells' classic work The Time Machine with a focus on the Time Traveller. The book is discussed in terms of the dichotomy between rich and poor and how it relates to Marx's Communist Manifesto. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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place where there are class divisions in Victorian England that have eventually created two distinct human species which are the Eloi and the Morlocks; the former is childlike and incompetent
while the latter species live underground and only occasionally creep around at night to eat the other species (2001). Wells (1995) writes: "The rich had been assured of his wealth
and comfort, the toiler assured of his life and work" (101). Clearly, one is drawn to the idea of communism as the dichotomy set up by the author resembles Marx
and Engels well known nonfiction work called The Communist Manifesto. In it, there is a division between classes. For Marx, it is the bourgeoisie and proletariat or the capitalists and
workers respectively. One class owns the means of production while the other merely works. This creates alienation in the workers and simply more wealth for the capitalists. This is not
unlike the idea to come from the H.G. Wells work. Of course, a difference between the works of Marx and Wells--and of course one is sociological and the other fictitious--is
their explanation for the outcome. Wells (1995) writes: "And this same widening gulf--which is due to the length and expense of the higher educational process and the increased facilities for
and temptations towards refined habits on the part of the rich-will make that exchange between class and class, that promotion by intermarriage which at present retards the splitting of our
species along lines of social stratification, less and less frequent" (62-63). Here, in some way Wells sees the reason for the split as relating to societys allowance of the dichotomy
to continue. One is reminded of the school voucher debate. Some want to pour money into the public schools whereas others want the poor to go to the private schools.
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