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In the book, contrary to what we always think, the Time Traveler, who goes to the world that has evolved into a more pure, talentless, short form instead of humans being superior and developed in every way in the future,…devamıIn the book, contrary to what we always think, the Time Traveler, who goes to the world that has evolved into a more pure, talentless, short form instead of humans being superior and developed in every way in the future, learns what class separation will make the world and people 800,000 years later. Throughout the book, it is common to understand that it is a good and necessary thing for humans to dominate nature, but that it must be done correctly. Wells made a comprehensive critique of the proletariat which was enslaved and the communist and capitalist system. Thus, he narrated the pessimistic end of the world. It is natural to find some simple scientific inconsistencies when thinking with today's knowledge, but these deficiencies can be ignored since the main purpose of the book is social criticism rather than science fiction. At the same time, it is also a nice detail that H.G. Wells managed to incorporate the scientific developments up to that time into his book as a commentary. “It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers.” The Time Machine is written before the theory of relativity and quantum physics was invented, is the progenitor of the "time travel" subgenre. Wells, one of the strong proponents of Social Darwinism, used this idea many times in the book, as you can see in the excerpt. With the industrial revolution in England, the working class continued to live like Morlocks which are living in the underground in the year 802.701 on the book in eastern England in very bad living conditions, almost as extraterrestrials. Wells, who also worked as a waitress for a while, complains about the class division in England in particular and in the world in general. The sharpening of class differences brought by the industrial revolution over time is the main element that Wells criticizes. The interesting and central idea in the book is that the Morlocks can no longer see because they have lived below for so long. The Eloi, on the other hand, live together happily in childlike naivety, almost forgetting fear. Wells criticizes them as "the laziest creatures I have ever seen" through the eyes of the Time Traveler. These are the bourgeois class. Apparently, after the danger has completely disappeared, the bourgeois has taken on a childish spirit, too lazy, too helpless to help his fellow drowning in the creek. The Time Traveler also notes that their language is very simple. The traveler was stunned when he saw that the Morlocks were eating the Eloi. In other words, the bourgeoisie, which is driven into laziness because it does not need further development, is being crushed by the underground proletarians. Perhaps this is Wells' message about the future.