The Time Machine and 1984

TITLE: What and how do we learn about the future worlds presented to us in H.G Wells ‘THE TIME MACHINE’ and George Orwell’s ‘1984’? What trends are these writers choosing to exaggerate and develop in their stories? What are the similarities and differences in the way the writers use science fiction to explore these trends? It is often said that Science Fiction is the ‘literature of change,’ the impact of science or technology on …

…with all the thoughts, hopes or dreams of escape and freedom permanently eradicated. Also, we learn that Wells was not idealising either the Upper class/ Eloi, or the Lower class/Morlocks. He simply showed them slowly moving away from each other and becoming two entirely different species. The true moral of his story can therefore be seen in his final sentence- “that even when mind and strength have gone, gratitude and mutual tenderness live on.”