The Time Machine

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How Does H.G Wells use language in the novel ‘The Time Machine’ to teach us about his vision of the future?

H.G Wells wrote one of the first science fiction novels: ‘The Time Machine’. This was due to a premonition that he had about the future.

Science Fiction is a genre of fiction and film with an imaginary scientific, technological, or futuristic basis. Science fiction - deals with the impact of actual or imagined science upon society or individuals. It aims to shake up standard perceptions of reality through alternative realities, dystrophies, utopias and natural or man-made disasters.

Early practitioners of science fiction were Jules Verne and H.G Wells. Examples of science fiction novels and films are: Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Frankenstein and Fifth Element. Another spectacular science – fiction movie called I Robot is based on our scientific progress in nana -technology. The recent smash hit clearly shows Sci-fi is still a popular genre in the modern day era.

Wells was a pioneer of science fiction. His obsession with science led to him being the first man to write about Science in order to express his views about how scientific developments will potentially lead to an apocalyptic war.

Wells witnessed the conspicuous class distinctions of the late nineteenth century. He felt strongly about the social divide between the rich leisured classes and the working class. ‘The Time Machine’ portrays what he felt could happen to mankind as the divisive gap between the indolent rich and hard-working poor became wider.

Wells was writing to an audience that was curious about the future. There was a rise in scientific intelligence in the 19th century following the Industrial Revolution. People of the 19th century began imagining what the future would become, if all the inventions created became more advanced. Thus Victorians believed Science – Fiction opened the possibility for an entire new range of ad...