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but they did spend most of their time working there. I would have thought that the Morlocks would be like slaves to the Eloi, because that’s what the miners were like to the upper class people. However, this wasn’t so, the Morlocks were in complete control of the Eloi, who were just food for them. The Morlocks were the more intellectual out of the two species, and had power over the Eloi. The Morlocks worked underground and were clever enough to work the complicated machinery. The Morlocks were a lot stronger than the Eloi, which gave them more authority over the Eloi. Wells wrote the Time Machine in a similar time to what we are living in at the moment. We are both very near to the turn of a new century, which involves new beginnings and new achievements in life. Wells wrote his story just before the turn of the 20th Century, in 1895. And we are about to go into the 21st Century. In 1985 they weren’t even thinking about the things which we have achieved ...

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changed his views about the nature of mankind. Because of the atrocities Wells witnessed, he believed that there was a very dark and evil side to man. These thoughts were shown in his writing. On the island were the boy’s crash landed, Piggy described one side of the mountain dark and unfriendly. “Looking down the unfriendly side of the mountain”. There was also an influence on the characters in the story. Jack and Roger represented the dark and evil side to man. In comparison to them, Ralph and Piggy were more civilised, and were not savages. Jack and Roger also represent Hitler, who was obsessed with dictatorship and power. The fascism in the Second World War, ...

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