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The Time Machine

A very Victorian dystopia

Catherine Redford considers how dystopian texts use future worlds to explore contemporary society

AQA (A): Independent critical study

In his 1895 novel The Time Machine, H. G. Wells imagines a Victorian time traveller propelled forward to the year 802,701 AD. The world of the distant future is unrecognisable and the first inhabitants that the Time Traveller encounters are the delicate, childlike Eloi. Only later does he meet the brutal, cannibalistic Morlocks, who live in darkness. Humanity has split into two distinct species.

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