SparkNotes: The Time Machine: Study Questions The Time Machine Analysis Review Quiz The Time Traveller formulates three successive theories of how the society of the Eloi functions. What are they? First, he thinks that the Eloi are the sole descendents of humanity. He assumes that scientific progress continued to make life easier for humans, so much so that they lost their edge, becoming stupid and lazy. He implies that this fate is the result of communism, as if the lack of competition drove the human race to indolence. Second, after he discovers the Morlocks, he thinks that the Morlocks are the slaves of the Eloi. He still feels that the Eloi have devolved into frail creatures because their life is too easy, but he believes that the Morlocks, humanity's other descendent, have evolved into brute workers. He thinks that this is capitalism's division of labour taken to the extreme. Third, when he discovers that the Morlocks hunt and terrify the Eloi, he assumes that his second theory was once true, but that the Morlocks evolved to the point where they needed to prey on the Eloi. It is a theory of revenge of the working classes.

These successive theories do not replace each other; rather, each one encompasses a broader view. Describe the lifestyle of the Morlocks. The Morlocks live below ground, in a system of tunnels. The tunnels can be entered through ventilation ducts that are scattered around the landscape. The ducts suck air inward and look like wells. Large underground engines keep the air flowing. The Morlocks seem to use the pedestal of the giant white Sphinx statue as a portal to the surface. Some Morlocks stay on the surface during the day, living in the shadow of ruins like the Palace of Green Porcelain. At night, the Morlocks emerge from below the ground to roam the surface. They hunt Eloi, which provide meat for the Morlocks' diet. The Morlocks are deeply afraid of light. Describe the astronomical imagery used in the latter chapters. What do we learn about the Time Traveller? What don't we learn? Why might Wells have decided not to flesh his protagonist? More Help The Time Traveller in The Time Machine NEXT Character Analysis Sure, building a Time Machine is pretty impressive, but let's not forget that the Time Traveller also designed his own chair, a chair which "embraced and caressed" the sitter (1.1).

We're picturing some sort of Victorian recliner. We're not entirely joking here: the Time Traveller is not just an excellent scientist; he's also a top-notch inventor. The second thing to keep in mind about the Time Traveller is that he's not entirely trusted by his friends. All his guests agree that he is very clever, but in Britain people often say "clever" when they mean "too clever" or "smart aleck." As the unnamed narrator notes, the Time Traveller is "too clever to be believed" (2.1). He may be a scientific genius, but he's also a joker. We learn in the first chapter about a prank he played on his friends the previous Christmas involving a fake ghost. So it's not surprising that his guests don't entirely believe him when he tells them he's going to travel through time. These two sides may seem like they're in conflict – how can the Time Traveller be a serious scientist and a joker at the same time? Science means never having to say you're sorry. If you check out "Themes: Science," you know we think that The Time Machine shows science to be a process that involves quite a lot of failure.

If you can't admit you're wrong, you're not going to be able to adjust your theories, and you're not going to be a good scientist. The Time Traveller looks at the lazy Eloi and theorizes that they must have machines to do all their work for them (4.27). But he doesn't find any machinery and meets the Morlocks instead. If he were a bad scientist, he might stick to his theory about the machines and ignore the new data. Since he's a good scientist (more or less), though, he adjusts the theory to fit the facts. Now, instead of the Eloi being tended by machines, he imagines them being tended by Morlocks (5.37). To be a better scientist, the Time Traveller has to admit that he's wrong. It helps that he doesn't take himself too seriously and can laugh at himself. For example, he realizes how ironic it is that he's desperately trying to get back to the past when he's spent so many years trying to build the Time Machine to get to the future (5.14). OK, maybe that's not laugh-out-loud funny to us, but it is to him.

So being a joker who can laugh at himself helps make the Time Traveller a better scientist. So much for that scientific spirit. The Time Traveller is largely motivated by scientific urges – he wants to discover and understand things. For instance, after he escapes from the Morlocks, he decides to travel into the future to see how the world ends. He is "drawn on by the mystery of the earth's fate" (11.8). If we were in his shoes (or, since he lost his shoes, in his bloodstained socks), we'd probably be ready to go back and relax in the 1890s after escaping the Morlocks. And we'd definitely take a day off when we got back. Not the Time Traveller: he just wants to go out and do more science. There are times in the novel when the Time Traveller seems not so rational and scientific, though. Sometimes he is frenzied with fear. For example, check out his night with the Morlocks, surrounded by a forest fire: For the most part of that night I was persuaded it was a nightmare. I bit myself and screamed in a passionate desire to awake.

I beat the ground with my hands, and got up and sat down again, and wandered here and there, and again sat down. (9.15) Also, what about his feelings about the Eloi and the Morlocks? While he tries to be detached and objective about this ecological state of affairs (7.14), he is clearly sympathetic to the Eloi and takes a lot of pleasure in beating up the Morlocks. How does that jibe with his scientific demeanor? Is your housekeeper a Morlock? The Time Machine is very much about social class – about who works for a living and who sits around smoking with his friends after a leisurely dinner. (For more on this, check out "Themes: Society and Class.") In the 1890s setting, the working classes are practically invisible. We spend most of our time with the Time Traveller and his professional friends, all of whom seem fairly well off. We hardly see or hear anything about the servants, who are definitely there behind the scenes making this life of leisure possible. In the future, this division of social class comes out in the split between the Eloi and the Morlocks. Which brings us back to the Time Traveller's chair.

While the Time Traveller doesn't seem happy about the split between the two species in the future, his lifestyle in the 1890s seems more aligned with that of the Eloi. The Eloi live in luxury and ease. When we first meet the Time Traveller and his friends, they are drinking wine after dinner, sitting in chairs designed for optimal comfort. Hmm. It's worth asking ourselves if inventions like the Time Traveller's chair lead people toward the regrettable evolutionary dead-end of the Eloi-Morlock split (or a WALL-E-like future of fat, lazy, unthinking armchair-bound humans). The Time Machine (1960) - FAQ The content of this page was created directly by users and has not been screened or verified by IMDb staff. Visit our FAQ Help to learn more FAQ How much sex, violence, and profanity are in this movie? For detailed information about the amounts and types of (a) sex and nudity, (b) violence and gore, (c) profanity, (d) alcohol, drugs, and smoking, and (e) frightening and intense scenes in this movie, consult the IMDb Parents Guide for this movie. The Parents Guide for The Time Machine can be found here .

What is 'The Time Machine' about? English scientist H. George Wells ( Rod Taylor ) constructs a time machine able to transport him back or forward in time. By mishap, he travels to the year 802,701 AD where he learns that the human race is divided into two factions: the golden-haired Eloi who live in childlike fashion above the ground and the subterranean Morlocks who feed, clothe, and eat them. When the Morlocks take his time machine and capture the only friend he's been able to make -- the young and pretty Eloi Weena ( Yvette Mimieux ) -- George is faced with having to go underground to retrieve the machine and save Weena. In what year does the story take place? The story begins on January 5, 1900, as friends of H. George Wells gather at his house for dinner. As George later moves through time, he makes stops in 1917 where he meets James Filby, the son of his good friend David Filby (both played by Alan Young ). Another stop in 1940 puts him in the wake of WW2.

At a third stop in 1966, he finds everyone scurrying underground for shelter against an atomic bomb. To escape being incinerated, George thrusts his machine into the future. Next stop: the year 802,701. How did the human race separate into the Eloi and the Morlocks? The talking rings explain how, following a long war between "the East" and "the West", the surface of the planet was virtually decimated, forcing the survivors to move underground. Eventually, some of them chose to live on the surface again, evolving into the Eloi. Those who remained underground became the Morlocks. In Wells' book, however, the Eloi are the descendants of the wealthy, leisured class while the Morlocks descended from members of the working class. How old was Weena supposed to be? Yvette Mimieux (Weena) was 17 when the movie was filmed. Her "look" was supposed to coincide with a girl just entering adulthood. How old the character Weena was supposed to be in Eloi years was never addressed in either the book or the movie. Why are there no Eloi children or elderly people?

The reason there are no elderly Eloi is pretty much explained in the movie. They are culled from the "herd" when they reach their prime, i.e., late teens and 20s, and eaten by the Morlocks.There do appear to be younger Eloi. For example, in the scene where Weena is taken into the Morlock sphinx by the air raid siren, a young boy and a young girl can be seen walking along with Weena. If there are no baby Eloi, how do the Eloi reproduce? The reproduction of baby Eloi is not addressed. Most viewers assume that Eloi reproduction, like everything else, is controlled by the Morlocks.

Four possibilities have been suggested: (1) The Eloi reproduce normally, but their babies are raised in communes where the more responsible adult Eloi take care of them, (2) some of the Eloi taken below in the air raids are breeding stock; they are made to reproduce, the babies are cared for by the Morlocks, and the children are released when they become old enough to join the herd aboveground, (3) replacement Eloi are cloned by the Morlocks, and (4) the life cycle of the Eloi has evolved to the point where their children grow and mature in a vastly reduced amount of time. What if, when George was jumping through time, the time machine were to occupy the same space as something solid, like rock? Wells dealt with that in his novel. He wrote: The peculiar risk lay in the possibility of my finding some substance in the space which I, or the machine, occupied. So long as I travelled at a high velocity through time, this scarcely mattered; I was, so to speak, attenuated--was slipping like a vapour through the interstices of intervening substances!

But to come to a stop involved the jamming of myself, molecule by molecule, into whatever lay in my way; meant bringing my atoms into such intimate contact with those of the obstacle that a profound chemical reaction--possibly a far-reaching explosion--would result, and blow myself and my apparatus out of all possible dimensions--into the Unknown. This possibility had occurred to me again and again while I was making the machine; but then I had cheerfully accepted it as an unavoidable risk--one of the risks a man has got to take! Now the risk was inevitable, I no longer saw it in the same cheerful light. The fact is that, insensibly, the absolute strangeness of everything, the sickly jarring and swaying of the machine, above all, the feeling of prolonged falling, had absolutely upset my nerve. I told myself that I could never stop, and with a gust of petulance I resolved to stop forthwith. Like an impatient fool, I lugged over the lever, and incontinently the thing went reeling over, and I was flung headlong through the air. How does the movie end? George says goodbye to David, who leaves the house. The time machine can then be heard whirling (off screen).

David comes back in and bangs on the door to the lab, gets it open just in time to see that there are tracks between the lab and the garden. The housekeeper follows him, and David explains that George had to move the time machine from the outside back into the laboratory so that, when he returned to the future, he wouldn't be on the inside of the sphinx anymore. The housekeeper notices that three books are missing. She wonders which books George might have taken, to which David replies, "Which three books would you have taken?" She then wonders whether George will ever return, to which David replies, "One cannot choose but wonder. You see, he has all the time in the world." The film ends with David leaving the house and the housekeeper turning off the lights as the snow falls. What were the three books that George took back with him? The three books were not named in the film, and they were not a part of Wells' original story in which the items that George took back with him included a knapsack and a camera.

Interestingly, that same question has been posed to millions of students over the years, asking them, "If you were to be marooned on an island or to be sent to the future, what three books (or items) would you take with you?" Was George in love with Weena? Is that why he returned to the future? That's the assumption made by most viewers of the movie and readers of the book. In truth, we don't know that George returned to Weena, only that he returned to the future, perhaps in an attempt to change it or, at least, to educate the Eloi and help them learn self-sufficiency. SparkNotes: The Time Machine: Summary The Time Machine Context Characters A group of men, including the narrator, is listening to the Time Traveller discuss his theory that time is the fourth dimension. The Time Traveller produces a miniature time machine and makes it disappear into thin air. The next week, the guests return, to find their host stumble in, looking disheveled and tired. They sit down after dinner, and the Time Traveller begins his story. The Time Traveller had finally finished work on his time machine, and it rocketed him into the future.

When the machine stops, in the year 802,701 AD, he finds himself in a paradisiacal world of small humanoid creatures called Eloi. They are frail and peaceful, and give him fruit to eat. He explores the area, but when he returns he finds that his time machine is gone. He decides that it has been put inside the pedestal of a nearby statue. He tries to pry it open but cannot. In the night, he begins to catch glimpses of strange white ape-like creatures the Eloi call Morlocks. He decides that the Morlocks live below ground, down the wells that dot the landscape. Meanwhile, he saves one of the Eloi from drowning, and she befriends him. Her name is Weena. The Time Traveller finally works up enough courage to go down into the world of Morlocks to try to retrieve his time machine. He finds that matches are a good defense against the Morlocks, but ultimately they chase him out of their realm. Frightened by the Morlocks, he takes Weena to try to find a place where they will be safe from the Morlocks' nocturnal hunting.

He goes to what he calls the Palace of Green Porcelain, which turns out to be a museum. There, he finds more matches, some camphor, and a lever he can use as a weapon. That night, retreating from the Morlocks through a giant wood, he accidentally starts a fire. Many Morlocks die in the fire and the battle that ensues, and Weena is killed. The exhausted Time Traveller returns to the pedestal to find that it has already been pried open. He strides in confidently, and just when the Morlocks think that they have trapped him, he springs onto the machine and whizzes into the future. The Time Traveller makes several more stops. In a distant time he stops on a beach where he is attacked by giant crabs. The bloated red sun sits motionless in the sky. He then travels thirty million years into the future. The air is very thin, and the only sign of life is a black blob with tentacles. He sees a planet eclipse the sun. He then returns, exhausted, to the present time. The next day, he leaves again, but never returns.

More Help The Time Machine (1960) - IMDb IMDb 17 January 2017 4:34 PM, UTC NEWS There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error A man's vision for a utopian society is disillusioned when travelling forward into time reveals a dark and dangerous society. Director: From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC Famous Directors: From Sundance to Prominence From Christopher Nolan to Quentin Tarantino and every Coen brother in between, many of today's most popular directors got their start at the Sundance Film Festival . Here's a list of some of the biggest names to go from Sundance to Hollywood prominence.

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Director: Byron Haskin An alien lands and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets. Director: Robert Wise A young boy learns that space aliens are taking over the minds of earthlings. Director: William Cameron Menzies An alien lifeform consumes everything in its path as it grows and grows. Directors: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr., Russell S. Doughten Jr. Stars: Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe An idyllic sci-fi future has one major drawback: life must end at the age of 30. Director: Michael Anderson In the world ravaged by the greenhouse effect and overpopulation, an NYPD detective investigates the murder of a big company CEO. Director: Richard Fleischer Army doctor Robert Neville struggles to create a cure for the plague that wiped out most of the human race. Director: Boris Sagal A group of scientists investigate a deadly new alien virus before it can spread. Director: Robert Wise The earliest atomic tests in New Mexico cause common ants to mutate into giant man-eating monsters that threaten civilization. Director: Gordon Douglas A hard-boiled tale following Gumshoe, a private eye hot on the trail of his missing partner.

In this world of femme fatales and hired goons, the truth lies beneath. Director: Matt Steinauer Edit Storyline On January 5, 1900, a disheveled looking H.G. Wells - George to his friends - arrives late to his own dinner party. He tells his guests of his travels in his time machine, the work about which his friends knew. They were also unbelieving, and skeptical of any practical use if it did indeed work. George knew that his machine was stationary in geographic position, but he did not account for changes in what happens over time to that location. He also learns that the machine is not impervious and he is not immune to those who do not understand him or the machine's purpose. George tells his friends that he did not find the Utopian society he so wished had developed. He mentions specifically a civilization several thousand years into the future which consists of the subterranean morlocks and the surface dwelling eloi, who on first glance lead a carefree life. Despite all these issues, love can still bloom over the spread of millennia.

Written by Huggo Taglines: The Time Machine whirls you to a world of amazing adventure in the year 800,000! See more » Genres: 2 September 1960 (West Germany) See more » Also Known As: H. G. Wells' The Time Machine See more » Filming Locations: Mono (35 mm optical prints)| 4-Track Stereo (Westrex Recording System) (35 mm magnetic prints) Color: Did You Know? Trivia Director George Pal was a close friend of fellow animator Walter Lantz , ever since Lantz did some cut-rate Woody Woodpecker work for Pal's Destination Moon (1950). As tribute, Pal tried to include Woody Woodpecker references in all his subsequent films. In the scenes where the Eloi are having a good time, every so often you can distinctly hear the "Woody Woodpecker" laugh. See more » Goofs When Wells and Weena meet she looks over her shoulder at the setting sun, but her shadow is in that direction.

See more » Quotes Talking Rings : The war between the east and west which is now in it's three hundred and twenty-sixth year, has at last come to an end. There is nothing left to fight with, and few of us left to fight. The atmosphere has become so polluted with deadly germs, that it can no longer be breathed. There is no place on this planet that is immune. The last surviving factory for the manufacturing of oxygen has been destroyed. Stockpiles are rapidly diminishing. And when they are gone, we must die. It fired the imagination of a 10 year old boy for a lifetime 3 July 2006 | by (andy.cippico@gmail.com) (United Kingdom) – See all my reviews OK, so some people are intent on pointing out factual or historical inaccuracies. Some people ridicule the costumes and accents, but what's important is the spirit of the film. I sincerely doubt anyone made the same kind of comments back in 1960. It was a seminal film and must have inspired a generation of film makers. You don't need CGI to make a good film.

It's all about the story and the ingenuity of having to make do with the things you've got to hand. This film exemplifies that attitude. I first saw The Time Machine as a 10 year old in 1970 and was utterly captivated. The stop-motion photography was spell-binding to me; particularly when George kills one of the attacking Morlocks. The gory footage of the body decomposing will abide with me forever. More importantly, and for the first time in my life, I was completely swept away with the concept of time travel. This film was unlike anything I had ever seen before and sowed seeds of profound thought for many years after. This film may not be for everyone, but it was for a certain 10 year-old boy all those years ago. How I wish I could go back and recapture those moments... 59 of 64 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes How does the society of the Eloi function in The Time Machine? | eNotes How does the society of the Eloi function in The Time Machine?

pmiranda2857 | High School Teacher | (Level 1) Educator Emeritus Posted on March 5, 2009 at 5:31 AM In "The Time Machine," H.G. Wells depicts the Eloi, who are the future of the aristocracy, as having grown ignorant from their life of ease. Wells is making a statement about the social classes in Britain in the late 19th century through the Morlocks and the Eloi. The aristocracy have turned into lazy, unemotional individuals with no intellectual curiosity, they do not explore their environment, they have no need for work. They lack the understanding about their own survival, they are dependent like little children. The Eloi live in simplicity, with no advanced technology. Below, the Morlocks have working machines and an intertwined mechanism that powers the system. The Eloi are presented as being allowed to survive because the Morlocks, who represent the working class of the future who were forced underground and developed characteristics that make them appear ape-like, are intelligent, innovative and manage to create an environment in which the Eloi thrive. The Eloi don't have to work for their food, neither do they hunt or grow food.

The food is provided through the intervention of the Morlocks. There is a suggestion in the book, that all the domestic animals are gone due to previous generations of Morlocks having eaten them all to extinction. Once this food source was exhausted, the Morlocks started to look to the Eloi for their meat source. The Eloi do not fight, they don't resist capture. It is clear in the novel that Wells pictures the future in a very grim way. March 5, 2009 at 2:58 AM The Eloi are basically "cattle" for the Morlocks in this novel. Humans over time haveevolved into two separate societies: the Eloi and the Morlocks. The Eloi live carefree lives during the daylight hours. They frolic and play all day, eating fruit and lounging around. At night, they become terrified and sleep in large groups for security. They represent what the human race used to be. Over time, they became lazy and lost their curiosity and will to learn and grow. Because of that change, they become the food for the Morlocks. The Morlocks are the hard working working class-types of the future.

They have evolved into underground "monsters." They still have curiosity and work ethic. However, over time, they ran out of food and were able to hunt down the Eloi for their source of meat. So that is the role that the Eloi play in this novel. like 1 dislike 0 H. G. Wells, The Time Machine - UI Victorian Wiki - UIowa Wiki UI Victorian Wiki Adaptations of The Time Machine Additional Materials Orson Welles Meets H.G. Wells - A very interesting meeting between literary giants Orson Welles and H.G. Wells. Originally aired on Radio KTSA San Antonio on October 28, 1940 War of The Worlds - University of Iowa Wiki on H.G. Well's War of the Worlds. The H.G. Wells Society - Founded in 1961, the H.G. Wells society's main objective is to raise interest in the author's life and work. In addition to publishing an annual journal on Wells, The Wellsian, the society also posts up to date information on publications and events relating to Wells and his work. H.G.

Wells: 9 Predictions That Have, and Haven't Come True - A National Geographic article from 2010 discussing some of H.G. Well's technological predictions from the cell phone to the heat ray. This is the title page from the first edition of The Time Machine. Biography Dates: September 21, 1866 - August 13,1946 Hometown: Bromley, Kent County, England Video on H. G. Wells' biography Introduction Herbert George Well's first novel was The Time Machine. His parents were Sarah Neal, maid to the upper classes, and Joseph Wells, shopkeeper and professional cricket player. In 1874, he was bedridden with a broken leg, leading his father to keep him entertained by giving him books to read in bed. After a basic education at a local school, Wells was apprenticed as a draper. Wells disliked the work and in 1883 became a pupil-teacher at Midhurst Grammar School. While at Midhurst Wells won a scholarship to the School of Science where he was taught biology by T. H. Huxley.

Wells found Huxley an inspiring teacher and as a result developed a strong interest in evolution. Wells founded and edited the Science Schools Journal while at university. Wells was disappointing with the teaching he received in the second year and so in 1887 he left without obtaining a degree. Wells spent the next few years teaching and writing and in 1891 his major essay on science, The Rediscovery of the Unique, was published in The Fortnightly Review. In 1895 Wells established himself as a novelist in 1895 with his science fiction story, The Time Machine. This was followed by two more successful novels, The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896) and The War of the Worlds (1898). Later in life, after marrying his cousin, Isabel Mary Wells, in 1891, he ran off in 1895 and married one of his past pupils, Amy Catherine Robbins, known as Jane. After becoming sick, he built a large family home in Sandgate in 1901. That same year, Jane bore him a son named George Philip and two years later Frank Richard.

During their marriage, Wells also had relations with several other women. Two of which bore him sons: writer Amber Reeves gave birth to their daughter Anna Jane in 1909 and in 1914 author and feminist Rebecca West gave birth to their son Anthony West. His marriage to Jane lasted until her death in 1927. H. G. Wells died on 13 August 1946 at his home in Regent’s Park, London. The Man Himself Previous Editions of The Time Machine Though The Time Machine as we know it was published in 1895 through Heineman, several earlier incarnations of the time traveling story existed and were included in various publications. The first time traveling story written by Wells was the Chronic Argonauts, printed in several installments between April and June, 1888. In this unfinished version, Dr. Nebogipfel constructs a time machine in the previously abandoned estate known as Manse to the inhabitants of the village Llyddwdd.

His antisocial behavior and odd noises and lights originating from his house raises suspicion in the villagers and they gather to confront him at his home, when he activates the Time Machine and disappears along with the local reverend Cook. Another published manifestation of the tale appeared several years later in the National Observer in 1894. This version begins similarly to The Time Machine in that the Time Traveller, referred to in this account as the Philosophical Inventor, is lecturing his dinner guests on his theories of the spatial three dimensions and the temporal fourth dimension. After one of the guests mentions the Time Machine, the Philosophical Inventor recounts the experience of time travel and leads them to the Time Machine, where he details his trip to the year 12,203. The story then follows a similar vein to The Time Machine where the protagonist meets with the frivolous Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks before returning back to his time period. The ending of this version places more speculation onto the split of humanity into the Morlocks and Eloi, with the Philosophical Inventor claiming the Eloi to be the descendants of the aristocratic leisure class of his contemporaries and the Morlocks the downtrodden labor class.

The National Observer version of The Time Machine also remained unfinished as Wells left the paper before publishing an ending. #Back to Top Character List The Time Traveller: the main character in this story and a scientist. He has invented a time machine and takes it forward into the future to find what has become of mankind. He invites several dinner guests to the first previewing of his invention, the Time Machine, and then another set of guests to his homecoming. He eventually disappears at the end of the novella, leading the reader and the Narrator to wonder what happened to him. Weena: one of the Eloi that the Time Traveller gets to know and love. He initially saves her from drowning, causing her to follow him like a puppy for the rest of the time he is there. She dies in the fire that the Traveller created in defense of the Morlocks. She is different from the other Eloi in that she cries (Chapter 5) and expresses her gratitude by giving him flowers. Yet, she is also very similar to the other Eloi in that she is not very smart, tires easily, and has a childish admiration for fire. There is some debate on whether the love between the Traveller and Weena is romantic or paternal.

Both exchange kisses and hugs, but as the Traveller consistently refers to her as a child, the relationship is considered paternal. The Morlocks: ape-like creatures that live underground and are essentially the "working-class." They are nocturnal and breed the Eloi, the "upper-class", for food. They are called by the Traveller: Human spider (Chapter 5) Human rats (Chapter 9) Damned souls (Chapter 9) Yet, even though he calls them such, he also has a little smidgen of praise to give them: "[they] retained...more initiative" and even "some little thought outside habit" (Chapter 10). Compared to the Eloi who are not only lazy, but idiotic. His choice words for them are: Very beautiful and graceful (3.14) Hectic beauty (3.14) Pretty little people (4.2) Dresden-china type of prettiness (4.3) Critics have discussed where the two species' names came from and one has come up with the notion that they came from the Bible. Morlock sounds a lot like Moloch, which is the name of a Phoenician god associated with child sacrifice in the Bible.

"Mors" is also a Latin root for "death." Then, Eloi sounds a lot like Elohim, which is a Hebrew word for god. Second, in the Gospel of Mark, Jesus yells out from the cross, "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?" Translated as: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" This makes it seem as though the Eloi are also named after a god. The Narrator: this character is used as a stand-in for the reader. Very unobtrusive and isn't seen from the 3rd or 4th chapter on until the end of the book. Is the only one of the dinner guests to believe in the Time Traveller and is one of the Traveller's "more constant guests". There is speculation that the Narrator actually may have cause the continued disappearance of the Time Traveller, or, possibly, his death. In Chapter 12, the Narrator goes in to look at the machine by himself. He touches a lever and the machine sways. It startles him and reminds him of his childhood days when he was told not to meddle.

Could it be that the Narrator somehow tampered with the Time Machine causing it to malfunction? Is that the reason for the Time Traveller not being able to return? The Dinner Guests: several of them are invited to two separate dinners: pre- and post-time traveling. They are the epitome of the upper class and what the Time Traveller sees as becoming the Eloi. Amongst the first dinner guests are: Filby, the Psychologist, a very young man, the Provincial Mayor, the Medical Man, and the Narrator. The ones that were invited to the second dinner were: the Medical Man (the Doctor), the Editor of a well-known daily paper, the Journalist, the Psychologist, the Silent Man, and the Narrator. The only other character that seems to be missing (in order to represent all of society) is a man of religion. Throughout the book, there is no mention of religion, so it seems plausible to assume that since Wells was not a religious man, he didn't find it necessary to include any sort of religion in the Time Traveller's story nor have a man of religion present when he told the story.

Wells was a man of science and he used science to explain everything, which is why he only had men of science present at the dinner. Some were of science: the Medical Man and the Psychologist. Some were ignorant of science: the Provincial Mayor. Then some were hostile towards it: Filby, the Editor, and the Journalist. Yet there were two other figures that were odd balls at the table: the Very Young Man and the Silent Man. The Very Young Man was the one that wanted use the Time Machine to go back in time and learn from people of influence, although the Time Traveller wanted nothing, it seemed, to do with the past. Yet, there is only a single mention of the Silent Man and that is to tell the reader that he didn't say anything during or after the story. What is the purpose of these two men? Do they represent a character further on in the story or are they the people who do not make it into the future? Click here for a list of Wells' works: The Plot The narrative is given through the perspective of an unnamed character (possibly Hillyer) and begins in the home of the Time Traveller, a scientist and inventor in Victorian England.

During a dinner meeting with the narrator, Filby, Medicine Man, Psychologist, and the Mayor, the Time Traveller lectures on the theories of the three spatial dimensions, and concludes that there is a fourth dimension, which is not special, but temporal. The Time Traveller transitions from discussions of dimension to the possibilities of time travel, and unveils a tabletop prototype time machine to his skeptical dinner guests. The machine vanishes after activation, and the Time Traveller shows his bewildered guests the larger machine he will be using to travel through time the next day. One week later, at a similar dinner party, the Time Traveller stumbles in late, injured and covered with dust, and excuses himself to clean up and change before giving any explanation as to his whereabouts and condition. At this point the narration switches from the unnamed guest to the Time Traveller as he recounts his experience testing his machine. The Time Traveller visits 802,701 A.D. where he comes into contact with that he considers the declining state of mankind and civilization. He meets the Eloi, a small, child-like race living above ground in large, crumbling palaces.

Remnants of an aristocratic leisure class, the Time Traveller notes that they have since fallen into decline, not knowing how to work or use their time productively. He theorizes that the communal Eloi are the products of a sort of Utopian communistic society where nature has been dominated by man and all basic needs have been met, resulting in no danger, risk, or need to work. The Time Traveller befriends a female Eloi, Weena, after saving her from drowning. She becomes attached to him, following him wherever he goes and providing further insight into the Eloi. He notices that Weena and other Eloi are afraid of the dark, and avoid large structures, vent shafts, going underground, scattered about the landscape. Discovering that the Time Machine is missing, the Time Traveller initially suspects it was stolen by the Eloi, but later finds that it has been locked inside a nearby structure resembling a Sphinx by the Morlocks, a subterranean dwelling race of ape-like who come to the surface at night, while the Eloi are asleep.

The Time Traveller expands on his previous theory that the Eoli, the leisure class, are supported by the Morlocks, who live underground working with machinery to create the goods and lifestyle enjoyed by the Eloi. Upon venturing into the underground tunnels of the Morlocks, the Time Traveller discovers that they are carnivorous and feed upon the Eloi for sustenance, as other major fauna have since become extinct. He further concludes that at one point in time the Eloi were the aristocratic ruling class and the Morlocks the workers, but over time, as meat became scarcer, the Morloks began to feed on the Eloi, keeping them alive above ground for food, essentially as livestock. The Time Traveller and Weena set out towards a large green structure in hopes of finding a location that can be fortified against the Worlocks, and discover it to be the ruins of a museum. He finds a box of matches and an iron bar which he plans to use to defend himself against the Morlocks.

Discovering that parts of the museum are accessible underground, and finding fresh Morlock prints inside, he decides to venture back with Weena, and on the journey back, the Time Traveller and Weena spend the night camping in the forest, building a fire to keep the Morlocks away as the Morlocks are both blinded and afraid of light. The Morlocks wait until the fire burns out and overpower Weena and the Time Traveller, who defends himself with his crowbar before setting a small fire and escaping without Weena, whom he supposes was taken by the Morlocks. The fire spreads into a massive forest fire, killing many of the Morlocks, and, he supposes, Weena. The Time Traveller returns to the Sphynx, finding it open. He goes inside, finding the Time Machine oiled and cleaned, and realizes that he has been trapped by the Morlocks, who close the door and attempt to overpower him. He manages to activate the Time Machine and travels approximately thirty million years into the future to a dying Earth, populated by large crab-like creatures and giant moths, and slowly jumps forward in time to observe the death of life on the planet.

The Time Traveller then returns back to his original time, several hours after he started, where his dinner guests are waiting. The guests refuse to believe his story, yet the presence of two flowers given to him by Weena, unknown in the Time Traveller’s time, cannot be account for. The Narrator visits the Time Traveller the next day and observes him in his machine with a camera. The Time Traveller fails to return after three years, despite saying that he would return in a half hour, leaving the Narrator to speculate on what might have happened to him either in the past or the future. Topics for Discussion Class Class plays an important role in The Time Machine. The society depicted that exists in the future aptly reflects upon the strict dichotomy that existed between the more privileged upper class, and the tough lives of the working class. This story gives insight into a more extreme example of this divide in class and society. In Well's England, the Industrial Revolution has shifted the British class system into the working, industrial class, and the aristocratic leisure class. For the upper class, we see the Eloi, which are physically weak and frail beings that exist in a lavish society and spend much of their time partaking in indulgences.

The Eloi represent the leisure class, who benefit from the working class by consuming goods, yet do not have or need employment themselves. The lower class is represented by the Morlocks, which are more ape-like in appearance. The fact that they are more physically powerful is a testament to them being the harder workers, which in itself is a nod at the very real social classes that existed in Victorian times. What separates Wells' depiction of societal class than the actual cases of it is the idea of power. Pertaining to the British rules, especially in colonialism, there is an obvious display of strength within the upper class and colonizers. However, in The Time Machine, it is revealed that the Eloi are more or less bred for the purpose of consumption. This puts power into the hands of the seemingly inferior society that lives in the sub terrain. This begs the question, who are the ones that ultimately hold power within societies with such stark distinctions between two classes? Are these societal classes cases where both classes depend on one another for survival? Darwinism In The Time Machine, the idea of evolution is presented by the two societies that exist in the future: The Eloi and the Morlock. The Eloi are physically weak and are strictly vegetarian.

They live carefree, peaceful lives, which ultimately leads to their ignorance. There is a clear devolution within these seemingly 'upper class' beings. This suggests that a consistently lavish existence with nothing to work for ultimately leads to regression both intellectually and physically. On the other hand, the Morlocks are the beastly creatures that have evolved not only in regards to strength, but are slightly more intellectually aware than the Eloi. They have crafted a perfect world for their food, giving them a false sense of security. This level of savagery mixed is a very basic portrayal of survival in an animalistic sense, which can be compared to troglodytes. Evolution is, once again, the extreme results of these habits. This is a very clear example of ignorance taking over those that slowly begin to forsake the need to use intellect or put effort into anything. On the other hand, this is also an example of the working class, the industrial lower level retaining the efforts it has to make, which ultimately is exemplified by the Morlock. What is curious to note is that advanced intellect is absent from both societies, which suggests a devolution in regards to humanity.

This is a case of ranchers and cattle, or even more simply, of predator and prey. This suggests that ultimately, basic instincts and objective means of survival are what prevail in the end when the time of higher intelligence rises and falls. Uncertainty Over the Future of Man/Arrogance In The Time Machine, the idea of human intellect as part of a Victorian society brings with it connotations of arrogance. This arrogance is seen from the very beginning of the book where the Time Traveller fully believes that he will be of primitive intellect in comparison to the humans of the future. He views intelligence as a consistent progression that evolves to become greater, and it reflects a very human central ideology. It is curious to note that the focus is on humanity's progression instead of the environments surrounding it. This idea of arrogance once again emerges at the very end of the book when the narrator discounts the Time Traveller's entire recollection about his travels. "But to me, the future is still black and blank--is vast ignorance lit at a few casual places by the memory of his story."(148) The Narrator continues to steadfastly believe that his future is uncertain, refusing to accept the fact that human intelligence can eventually devolve and lead to a social regression.

This further implies the arrogance that is associated with intelligence, but also shows a desire to embrace the uncertainty of the future of humanity instead of accepting the prospect of lesser intelligence. Art and the Masses Wells believed that art, and especially fiction, should be used as a catalyst for social reform and education. A Matter of Form The Early Frame and Science Fiction H.G. Wells focuses invariably on what matters most to him in a story: the story itself. That is, Wells is concerned with the effect of a story on the reader. He is an eminent progenitor of science fiction, but his work makes clear that the human element — the Time Traveller as opposed to the Time Machine, the narrator’s reaction to portended doom, the closing moments of hope — is the driving force that reinvents science as literature. On this, Wells does not equivocate: In all this type of story the living interest lies in their non – fantastic elements and not in the invention itself. They are appeals for human sympathy quite as much as any ‘sympathetic’ novel, and the fantastic element, the strange property or the strange world, is used only to throw up and intensify our natural reactions of wonder, fear or perplexity.

(Wells 154) What natural reaction, however, does Wells seek to evoke? And how does science fiction spark this particular reaction? Clearly he intends to produce an emotional response, but The Time Machine begins in a vastly different atmosphere from that in which it ends. It begins by immediately placing the reader in the action, though the action seems as dull as a fireside chat. It is crucial to note, however, that Wells uses unnamed or abstractly named characters because these “gaps” in the content are intended to be filled by the reader. When the Time Traveller speaks, he speaks on the page to “the Psychologist” (Well 5) or “the Provincial Mayor” (Wells 6), yet the form of direct address to “you,” an audience — from an expert in the field to those who understand nothing of that field — is meant precisely to ignite wonder in the reader. “You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted . . . “I do not mean to ask you to accept anything without reasonable ground for it. You will soon admit as much as I need from you.

You know of course that a mathematical line, a line of thickness nil, has no real existence. They taught you that? Neither has a mathematical plane. These things are mere abstractions.” “That is all right,” said the Psychologist. “Nor, having only length, breadth, and thickness, can a cube have a real existence.” “There I object,” said Filby. “Of course a solid body may exist. All real things — ” “So most people think. But wait a moment. Can an instantaneous cube exist?” “Don’t follow you,” said Filby. “Can a cube that does not last for any time at all, have a real existence?” (Wells 5) If H.G. Wells is not the first to question the notion of time and existence, he is one of the first to put the question into a story that illuminates the possibility of an answer. In a broad way, The Time Machine fulfills and shapes the form of science fiction, of the fantastic, as a means of posing possible answers and giving meaning to those answers.

The beginning of the novel begs the question to which the Time Traveller has the answer, and without the “living interest” of the fiction this question could as easily be challenged in an essay. Wells’ choice of form is deliberate. The Time Traveller goes on to demonstrate that he can indeed travel through the fourth dimension, but rather than develop the intricacies of time travel, Wells focuses on the dire possibilities the Time Traveller has introduced. A Further Gap: The Time Traveller as a Void I think that at that time none of us quite believed in the Time Machine. The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness. Had Filby shown the model and explained the matter in the Time Traveller's words, we should have shown him far less scepticism. For we should have perceived his motives: a pork butcher could understand Filby. But the Time Traveller had more than a touch of whim among his elements, and we distrusted him. Things that would have made the fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands.

It is a mistake to do things too easily. The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment: they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with eggshell china. (Wells 12) This passage exemplifies — perhaps more than any other in the novel — the notion that form not only frames content, but introduces its own. The narrator supplies information that, though ostensibly a brief description of the Time Traveller’s character, in fact reveals the central aspect of the novel: when the narrator divulges that the Time Traveller “had more than a touch of whim among his elements” and that no one could perceive the Time Traveller’s motives, he reveals that the Time Traveller is not meant to be understood. While not relegated completely to the status of a symbol, the Time Traveller nevertheless becomes a representation of an idea, though the nihilistic character he embodies does not emerge until the epilogue. Impossibly intelligent, mysterious, and possessing indecipherable motives, the Time Traveller is what Wells calls the “impossible hypothesis” (Wells 154).

That is, he is part of the fantastic element of the work, his inner workings as mysterious as the components of the Time Machine. This passage establishes the frame narrator as the grounding, non – fantastic element — his narrative will later act in contraposition with the Time Traveller, for while the latter reveals facts, the former reveals what those facts mean for humanity. But if Wells were searching for this aspect of humanity, why make the main character of a work impenetrable? Wells does not provide the reader with a character to emulate or adore because the work, as a whole, is not intended to demonstrate character. Rather, the reader’s focus should have wider scope. What is most important in the novel (structurally) is the interplay between frame and framed. There are essentially two main characters in The Time Machine, though the reader hears much of one voice and almost nothing of the other. The Time Traveller, despite occupying the majority of the work, illuminates little of himself that resonates with the reader. Much as the eight hundred thousand years of the future are too distant to connect to the present, the Time Traveller himself is too intelligent, too unreadable.

The frame narrator cannot provide the hidden dimension — his purpose is to connect to the reader in the way that the Time Traveller cannot. The narrator interprets the framed narrative and responds with the very humanity so lacking in the Time Traveller. His lack of complete understanding (he has not seen the future with his own eyes) mirrors the ignorance of the reader. Yet the narrator is not meant to understand; he is meant to express his emotion. In this way, The Time Machine strives for a new “natural reaction” that has the power to resonate. Epilogue: “Into the Manhood of the Race . . .” One cannot choose but wonder. Will he ever return? It may be that he swept back into the past, and fell among the blood — drinking, hairy savages of the Age of Unpolished Stone; into the abysses of the Cretaceous Sea; or among the grotesque saurians, the huge reptilian brutes of the Jurassic times. He may even now — if I may use the phrase — be wandering on some plesiosaurus — haunted Oolitic coral reef, or beside the lonely saline seas of the Triassic Age.

Or did he go forward, into one of the nearer ages, in which men are still men, but with the riddles of our own time answered and its wearisome problems solved? Into the manhood of the race: for I, for my own part, cannot think that these latter days of weak experiment, fragmentary theory, and mutual discord are indeed man's culminating time! I say, for my own part. He, I know — for the question had been discussed among us long before the Time Machine was made — thought but cheerlessly of the Advancement of Mankind, and saw in the growing pile of civilization only a foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon and destroy its makers in the end. If that is so, it remains for us to live as though it were not so. But to me the future is still black and blank — is a vast ignorance, lit at a few casual places by the memory of his story. And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers — shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle — to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man.

(Wells 71) The epilogue leaves the reader with something far more than a bleak, barren vision of the future. Indeed, it uses the power of the dark view of the Time Traveller’s narrative to fuel its own purpose: closing with a sense of the human element. Acting despite the sure knowledge of the end of mankind, the narrator ends on a note of “gratitude and a mutual tenderness” — the frame counters the framed. Earlier the narrator intimates the unreadable motivations of the Time Traveller; here, he reveals that the seemingly impenetrable man “saw in the growing pile of civilization only a foolish heaping . . . ” The dichotomy between the two characters is ever more prevalent, and the purpose emphatically clear. The narrator’s optimism rebuffs the Time Traveller’s nihilism. The Time Traveller never believed in humanity, his own theory proven when he travels into the future. But his reasons for his beliefs and his current thoughts are mysteries. He remains indecipherable.

The narrator is the only opportunity for insight; the form — the frame — provides a way to interpret the Time Traveller’s story: a dark warning, but also a sense of purpose against what the Time Traveller views as futility. The epilogue is steeped in ignorance and possibility. The Time Traveller is gone and the narrator is left with the worn remnants of an unbelievable story with an unbearable ending. What comes next even Wells does not know, for the possibilities are deliberately inexhaustible. Yet the story’s crucial aspect remains intact: the “living interest” (Wells 154) that is the dynamic relationship between frame and framed. The form of The Time Machine communicates more than the characters and dialogue. The possibilities of interpretation, however, are limitless. Perhaps the predicted doom can change? Or, in a darker world, perhaps the Time Traveller is right to believe in futility: perhaps the narrator — out of denial, out of fear, out of his “appeals for human sympathy” (Wells 154) — views humanity’s extinction as the unthinkable, “impossible hypothesis” (Wells 155). .

Morlocks | The Time Machine Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Morlocks, as they appear in the 1960s Time Machine film . The Morlocks are a humanoid species which is descended from humans, particularly low-class underground machine operators. They exist in several future timelines, notably in Mor . They are subterranean, and prefer dark, as their eyes are sensitive to light. In most timelines, the Morlocks eat their Eloi cousins. The Morlocks are more technologically advanced than the Eloi, maintaining more remnants of human technology. In Mor, they live underground, using a series of wells to pump air through their tunnels. They also use the wells as ladders to reach the world above, though other methods of travel (primarily the doors of the Sphinx ), are also utilized. In another timeline, they have constructed a metallic shell around the sun, which they use as their home. they also eat cow pats Contents This history is that of the Morlocks as seen in Mor , in the novels continuity. Origins Edit The Morlocks are theorized to have evolved from the Old Navy workers who labored underground circa 2100 , all wearing blue uniforms and living in harsh conditions.

When Graham visited their domain, he already saw signs of them becoming paler and developing a separate strain of English. Much later, The Time Traveler would find evidence that the Morlocks had come from a lower class. (" When The Sleeper Wakes ", " The Time Machine ") In the 33rd Century , the underground world was a massive, sprawling civilization, which was not subject to many of the oppressive laws of the world above, leading many to voluntarily live below. (" Beyond the Time Machine ") By the 40th Century , a race of 'happy servant-men' as a child native to the time described them had come into being, whose carriage and reaching dexterity suggested to The Time Traveler on a visit to this era they they were a form of proto-Morlock. The child also noted that they were not to be discussed. (" The Time Machine: A Sequel ") Springtime Era Edit By 802,701 , the Morlocks were feeding on the Eloi , while still clothing and feeding them during their lives. In essence, the Eloi were used like cattle. When The Time Traveler arrived, he was very disgusted and found it difficult to see the humanity in these descendants of his.

(" The Time Machine ") When The Time Traveler returned, his opinion had softened towards Morlocks after working with his companion Nebogipfel for so long. While working with the Eloi to try and encourage their humanity, he decided to descend to the Morlock Tunnels and work with them. (" The Time Ships ") Differing Directions Edit Years later, when Lara Myers encountered the Morlocks, their society had become significantly more advanced and civilized than The Time Traveler remembers. Nobipoper told Lara that they had given up on eating the Eloi, and focused on developing their technology. By the time Lara visited, they had Nanotechnology , genetically modified Giant Mantises , and other advanced technologies. This change had apparently come about after a wise man helped them realize their cannibalism was not the best way anymore. Nobipoper also told Lara of a splinter group of Morlocks who still preyed on the Eloi. (" The Wee Time Traveler ") When Time Traveler Two visited Mor, he met Kmallak , a leader of the reformed Morlocks, who no longer preyed on the Eloi.

Kmallak was a kind of tribal leader, however; these Morlocks were not nearly as advanced as the ones encountered by Lara Myers. The splinter group that still eats Eloi were known as the Hirsuite Morlocks and were controlled by the Morloi . (" Beyond the Time Machine ") During one of The Time Traveler's return visits, the Morlocks stole The Time Machine and traveled back through time to the nineteenth century, intending to invade the past world. Coloniel Nalga of the Morlock Military told Edwin Hocker , upon confronting him, that the Morlocks had killed The Time Traveler and furthermore that they had decided to no longer allow the Eloi to roam free, rather keeping them in pens. The Morlock invasion of the ninteenth century failed, largely in part to the efforts of Edwin Hocker and Tafe , who had experienced a future overrun by Morlocks. (" Morlock Night ") It was possible this Morlock Military was the same rebel group in The Wee Time Traveler. More likely, however, may also be an alternate timeline in which the Morlocks went in a darker direction.

The Morlocks were also known to have built a fleet of Time Machines and launched an invasion of their future, so that they could conquer the Crab monsters and use them as food - the Morlocks could reclaim the surface of that future world, as it was constantly twilight. They returned briefly to Mor after establishing a beachhead in the future, to wipe out the Eloi so as they couldn't advance and destroy the Morlocks in the far future. (" On the Surface ") This story is likely the same timeline, or at least a similar one, to that in Morlock Night, as we see militaristic Morlocks who have taken over their world and mastered Time Travel. Morlocks of the Sphere Edit In Timeline C , Mor never developed in the same way, but a different sort of Morlock arose. Over thousands of years, Humans used massive fleets of spacecraft to mine the sun for materials, finally using material from the sun to construct a massive sphere around the star. The sphere is completely solar-powered and self-building, and it became the new primary habitat for Humanity. Meanwhile, humans had been genetically altering themselves for millenia, finally arriving at a form extremely similar to that of the Morlocks of Mor by coincidence.

These Morlocks reproduced unnaturally, by the shaping of a clay-like substance into babies. The mechanism for this is unknown. They devoted themselves to the pursuit of science and knowledge. The Earth was used only as a nursery for Morlock children. Inside the Sphere, the inner layers, closest to the sun, housed billions of humans of various sorts, some resembling Homo Sapiens, while others resembled Neanderthals or other shapes. When The Time Traveler arrived in this era, he mistook these for the Morlocks he knew and attacked them, severely injuring several children before he was apprehended. He was then questioned by Nebogipfel , who later became his companion. (" The Time Ships ") In Other Continuities Edit Separate Continuity! This article or section covers a subject that is part of the 1960 Film Continuity and should not be considered part of the Novel Continuity or any other . Origins Edit The humans originally fled underground to avoid bombardment due to wars. Eventually, the surface became uninhabitable, and all of humanity lived underground. After enough time had passed, however, a group decided to risk living on the surface, despite all the radiation that might be there.

Those became the Eloi, while the ones who stayed below became the Morlocks. For many centuries, once the Eloi had relocated to the surface, the ones below would call them inside by use of a siren, to avoid further bombardments. Eventually, this became a ritual, and the Morlocks eventually began to eat the Eloi, using the siren to summon their prey. (" 1960 Film ") George's Visit Edit When George , a visitor from the past, encountered the Morlocks, he began to teach the Eloi how to fight. He rescued Weena from their clutches and incited the Eloi to rebellion. In the climax of that event, the underground Morlock habitats were destroyed, and the Time Traveler escaped into the past, soon to return and help the Eloi build a new world. (" 1960 Film ") 2002 film Edit Separate Continuity! This article or section covers a subject that is part of the 2002 Film Continuity and should not be considered part of the Novel Continuity or any other . Origins Edit The Über-Morlock. Humans had to flee underground, following a disaster involving the mining of the Moon .

Shattered pieces of the moon were raining down on the Earth, necessitating the move underground. Later, some of the people had returned to the surface, becoming the Eloi. (" 2002 film ") Castes These Morlocks are controlled very intelligently by the Über-Morlock , and bred into castes. So far there are three known castes: Hunter Morlocks , Warrior Morlocks and the Über-Morlock himself. (" 2002 film ") Time Kid Edit Separate Continuity! This article or section covers a subject that is part of an original continuity, and should not be considered part of the Novel Continuity or any other . In Time Kid , the Morlocks are referred to as Sub-Men. They do not eat the Luman, but rather gather them and use their telepathic brains to provide electrical energy. (" Time Kid ") Morlocks Edit Separate Continuity! This article or section covers a subject that is part of an original continuity, and should not be considered part of the Novel Continuity or any other . Origins Edit Danny Wichita, the first Morlock.

In a Time Loop , the Morlocks were created when Danny Wichita , a cancer patient, was injected with Morlock DNA procured from the future, in an attempt to save him. He became a Morlock hybrid himself, and, through some unknown mechanism, propagated Morlocks, who ate human flesh. It seems that this occurred through some sort of virus, transforming people into Morlocks. (" Morlocks ") 2080 Edit Separate Continuity! This article or section covers a subject that is part of an original continuity, and should not be considered part of the Novel Continuity or any other . Description taken from the Pathfinder Bestiary: A Morlock, as it appears in the game's "Bestiary". Skin pale as a slug's belly, eyes huge and bulging, this thing crawls down the wall like a spider, but its shape is hideously humanoid. Degenerate humans long lost from the world of light, morlocks have regressed through years of subterranean dwelling into ravenous, barely thinking beasts of the endless night. They no longer remember the civilized lives their ancestors led, although many morlock tribes still dwell in the shattered ruins of their ancient homes.

Ironically, in many cases morlocks worship the statues left behind by these ancestors as their gods. Morlock priests of such ancestor worship have access to the domains of Darkness, Earth, Madness, and Strength. A typical morlock stands just over 5 feet tall and weighs roughly 150 pounds. Morlocks move about on two legs at times, but often drop down to a creepy four-limbed shuffle when speed or stealth is necessary. Their wiry, often emaciated frames mask the strength of their limbs and their swift reactions. Morlocks typically give birth to broods of three to four babies at a time, ravenous creatures born with a full set of teeth and a cannibalistic predisposition. The first few weeks of a brood's life must be carefully mothered to prevent attrition—it usually takes that long for the morlock young to overcome their natural inclination to feed on whatever is closest. Morlocks mature quickly, achieving adulthood after only 5 years of life. A typical morlock can live to a ripe old age of 60—although the majority of their kind die far sooner than that due to violence. (" Pathfinder ")

Question: In what HG Wells book did we meet the  Eoli and the Morlocks?
Answer: The Time Machine