Introduction H. G. Wells has long been considered the father of the science fiction genre with the publication of his first book, The Time Machine in 1895. This novel details a narrator’s travel through time. The unidentified narrator tells of his voyages through time to house guests of various professional backgrounds except one of religious background. To explain, there is not a minister or priest situated among the house guest. This essay will address the absence of religion in the novel and how it is reflects a major issue of Victorian Age: science vs. religion.
Art is an imitation of life. Wells’ life experiences and his attitudes about society are present in the Time Machine. I will also explain the significance of Wells’ conversion …show more content…
Studying biology under Thomas Henry Huxley, a noted scholar of Darwin’s theory of evolution and the study of geology, sparked Wells’ interest and inspiration for his books including The Time Machine (Haynes, 12). Drawing on his concern with class divisions and the future of mankind combining them with these new ideas of evolution and the progression of species, Wells created a book that intertwined the two, making the themes dependent on each other. He described an outcome in perspective of how people were living at the turn of the century and results of such behavior and …show more content…
This novel is important because it was written later in his life. The irony in the story of War of the Worlds is that technology is not what inevitably saves the human race. Rather, what defeated the Martians was something that has been here far longer than we have: the natural world. The Martians could do nothing against all of earth’s microorganisms, the bacteria. Cancers and tumors that we have worked to cures. After all the Martians were fallen, the narrator realized that they were “slain, after all man’s devices had failed, by the humblest thing that God, in his wisdom, has put upon this earth.”
Art is an imitation of life. Wells’ life experiences and his attitudes about society are present in the Time Machine. I will also explain the significance of Wells’ conversion …show more content…
Studying biology under Thomas Henry Huxley, a noted scholar of Darwin’s theory of evolution and the study of geology, sparked Wells’ interest and inspiration for his books including The Time Machine (Haynes, 12). Drawing on his concern with class divisions and the future of mankind combining them with these new ideas of evolution and the progression of species, Wells created a book that intertwined the two, making the themes dependent on each other. He described an outcome in perspective of how people were living at the turn of the century and results of such behavior and …show more content…
This novel is important because it was written later in his life. The irony in the story of War of the Worlds is that technology is not what inevitably saves the human race. Rather, what defeated the Martians was something that has been here far longer than we have: the natural world. The Martians could do nothing against all of earth’s microorganisms, the bacteria. Cancers and tumors that we have worked to cures. After all the Martians were fallen, the narrator realized that they were “slain, after all man’s devices had failed, by the humblest thing that God, in his wisdom, has put upon this earth.”