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Which Literary Classic is Better? The Time Machine and The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are two pieces of classic literature bound together by the Victorian age. While both stories have underlying themes about the struggle of man, both present them in different ways. The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells, presents its struggle of man as a society where each class of peoples is against each other, being thoroughly influenced by politics of the time. Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case…

Christina Fatse Satire period 2 November 1, 2010 Mr. McGarry The Use of Satire in Expressing Social Flaws in Feed The satirical and dystopian novel, Feed, by M.T. Anderson exposes many social flaws that are present in today’s society. The book portrays the foreshadowing events of the future if there is no change in our society. The people living in the world of Feed rely heavily on the technology of their feed. Due to the reliance on their feeds, the people are unaware of their surroundings, or…

and Morlocks. Initially, he is thrown into the year 802,701 AD into a dystopian society divided between two polar opposite human races. The Eoli are peaceful, lazy, and carefree, almost to the point of dumbness. On the other hand, the Morlocks are creatures of night and live in the underground throughout the day. Recognizing that these two races originated from humans today, the Time Traveler theorizes three main ideas about how this came about. In the Time Machine, the Time Traveler suggests…

The Events Leading Up to Jesus’ Birth When did man, as we know man, really start? Our faith tells us it started with Adam and Eve. God gave instructions to Adam and then to Eve. However, temptations set upon them and they made a bad choice. The angel Gabriel, said to Zechariah, “Don’t be afraid, Zechariah! God has heard your prayer. Your wife Elizabeth will have a son, and you will name him John” (Luke 1:13, NIV). Zechariah was told that his wife Elizabeth, who was unable to bear children,…

first half of the number of 802 decreases in the second half to 701; 8 becomes 7, 2 becomes 1. Moreover, the Time Traveller discovers that humanity’s technological advances subsequently made them complacent. The descendants of the human race, the Elois, have regressed from Victorian times and are ‘childlike’ (24). They only have the ‘intellectual level of one of our five year old children’ (25). Like Morley and Stevenson, Wells suggests that human progress is finite, and even does so by using…

just as the humans are incapable of stopping the aliens. In The Time Machine “Wells’s Time Traveler voyages 800,000 years into the future… the class divisions of England have led, disastrously, to two distinct human species: the childlike, incompetent Eloi, and the monstrous, subterranean Morlocks” (Achenbach 110). This is another example in which Wells incorporates his socialist views into his fictional stories. He would often do this without considering the possible development of technology.…

Since the mid-term, there have been a number of stories that deal with the issue of race. One story that really dealt with the issue of race was Kindred by Octavia Butler. In Kindred, Dana Franklin is transported back in time whenever her ancestor, Rufus Weylin, is in danger, and when Dana goes to Rufus’s time, she realizes that she is going to a time where African American people are still slaves. Every time Dana goes to help Rufus, she is treated even worse than the last time she had gone…