The Time Traveller
How far into the future does the Time Traveller travel?
800,000 years into 802,701.
What is the Time Traveller's companion's name?
Weena.
The Eloi.
What is a utopia?
A place where everything is perfect.
Define indolent.
Wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy.
What color is the sphinx?
White.
What is the fourth dimension?
Time.
What are the Eloi afraid of?
The dark --> the Morlocks.
How do the Morlocks access the Underworld?
Wells.
The working class becomes the __________?
Morlocks.
What is this - an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state?
Capitalism.
What does the Time Traveller bring back from the year 802,701?
What is the Time Traveller's main weapon against the Morlocks?
Fire.
In the Upperworld, what is the landscape meant to represent?
A utopia or the Garden of Eden.
What kind of society do the Morlocks embody?
A capitalistic society.
Where is the Time Machine hidden?
Inside the Sphinx.
What's an eddy?
A circular movement of water, counter to a main current, causing a small whirlpool.
What is the Palace of Green Porcelain?
A museum.
The Time Traveler returns from his laboratory and shows his dinner guests something in his hands that is the size of a ____________.
small clock
What kind of society do the Eloi embody?
A communistic society.
What do the Morlocks look like?
Pale, red eyes, ape-like.
What common ancestor do the Morlocks and Eloi share?
Man.
Define frame narrative.
A storytelling technique where a main story serves as a framework for an inner story
H.G. Wells.
What happens to the Time Traveller at the end of the story?
We don't know. He travels through time and never returns.
Where do the Eloi live?
Above ground, future England, near the Thames River.
Where do the Morlocks hide the Time Machine?
Inside the sphinx.
The Time Machine, written in Britain in 1895, is a product of an era of great anxiety about social class and economic inequality. The Industrial Revolution had generated great wealth, but this wealth went almost entirely to the _____________ class.
upper
Define paradox
a seemingly absurd statement or self -contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated is proven to be true.
Why don't the Morlocks use the Time Machine?
The Time Traveller removes special levers and keeps them.