During World War II, Wells drafted “The Rights of Man,” which later influenced the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights.Wells studied under Thomas Henry Huxley – an advocate for Darwin’s theory of evolution.Soon after, he embarks on another trip, never to return again. After narrowly escaping capture by the Morlocks, the Time Traveller recovers his machine and journeys further forward to the world’s end before returning to his own time. His machine disappears, so he explores the future world. He finds that humanity has devolved into two races: the childlike Eloi and the monstrous Morlocks. A scientist builds a time machine and travels to future.Wells’s The Time Machine offers a dystopian vision of humanity’s future. Indeed, the novel’s decidedly pessimistic speculation about the ways humanity may evolve if it fails to face the most pressing social problems of the era – particularly, the exploitation of the working classes – offers a profound indictment of unchecked capitalism and the class divisions that roiled late 19th-century Victorian society. In many ways a response to the popular utopian fiction of the period, Wells handily inverts a core belief of his day – namely, that scientific and technological progress would, inevitably, lead to a better tomorrow. Still, The Time Machine is hardly light entertainment. Wells’s tale of a nameless scientist who builds a time machine, travels to the year 802,701 AD and there encounters humanity’s descendants – the childlike Eloi and the monstrous Morlocks – continues to engage readers and inspire fellow science fiction authors. More than 100 years after its initial publication in 1895, H.G. There’s no denying that The Time Machine is an extraordinary work of imagination.

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells