retain some of their intellectual strength, and, when the process of feeding the under-world became disrupted, the cosmic process reasserted itself and the Morlocks emerged to eat the Eloi.”(McConnell Pg.3866)One of the most incredible aspects of this book is the way that Wells uses it as a device to foreshadow what he thought the world and human race would come to if society didn’t change their ways. During Wells’s time there was a big line being drawn between the laborers and the capitalists, and Wells clearly saw what direction that line would lead the human race in. At the end of the book, the Time Traveler escapes from the Morlocks by throwing his machine into the even more distant future. When he stops the machine the first time he finds no trace of the human race, but several very odd, very inhumane type creatures. “Although no humans are in evidence, a giant crablike creature and a huge butterfly are at odds with each other.”(Magill Pg.867) After this occurrence the Time Traveler pushes the machine even farther on, to the year 30,000,000. Here the Time Traveler finds a practically dead Earth, clearly foreshadowing humanities harsh fate. “This time there can be no mistaking Wells’s intention. The second law of thermodynamics is relentlessly at work: The Earth is grinding to a halt, its face turned to a red, dying sun. In the eerie half-light, the Time Traveler watches a huge tentacled creature wait at the edge of a sluggish ocean. Life on land seems to have reduced to lichens and simple plants; on Earth, everything is floundering back toward the point of its origin: the slack-tided ocean.”(Magill Pg.867) The Time Traveler returns home to his time in England and tries to tell his story to hi peers and fore worn them of the future to come. His guests simply laugh at him and don’t think twice of his warning. The only thing the time traveler can think to do is to return to the f...
