Organization has always been a tremendous asset for the human race, pivotal to our very survival and ability to learn. This is entirely dependent upon the ability to sort, categorize, and separate the world around us into easy to find like object groups. When civilizations began to form, society was no exception, people have always been divided into groups based on common similarities such as race, gender, income or profession. The division was particularly strong in Victorian England near the turn of the century, a period of great change with new inventions and industrialization. Due to these mechanical marvels, an old issue of hierarchal oppression, began to affect a new era, amongst the working class. An issue that H.G. Wells determined
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Wells was one of the first authors to logically apply the concept of Darwin’s theory of evolution, into his writing, carefully considering the ramifications that different environments would have upon the human species. These perceptions are clearly evidenced by his thorough descriptions of the Eloi and the Morlocks. Wells depicts the Eloi as a “Dresden china type of prett[y]. Their hair, which was uniformly curly…there was not the faintest suggestion of [hair] on the face and the ears were singularly minute. The eyes were large and mild; and … I fancied even then that there was a certain lack of the interest I might have expected in them. [The] people of the remote were strict vegetarians (Wells)” as well. From this description Wells gives the impression that the Eloi have these characteristics because they appear to be the former aristocracy, a conclusion that can be drawn from Wells’s application of evolutionary theory. In the novel, The Time Traveler determines that the Eloi are small and frail because at some point they no longer had to work laborious jobs. Naturally, the only rational reason an individual wouldn’t have to work is because that person doesn’t have a pressing need to earn a wage, usually because they already have wealth, also known as the upper-class. Therefore, the Eloi are clearly descendants of the upper-class
Wells was one of the first authors to logically apply the concept of Darwin’s theory of evolution, into his writing, carefully considering the ramifications that different environments would have upon the human species. These perceptions are clearly evidenced by his thorough descriptions of the Eloi and the Morlocks. Wells depicts the Eloi as a “Dresden china type of prett[y]. Their hair, which was uniformly curly…there was not the faintest suggestion of [hair] on the face and the ears were singularly minute. The eyes were large and mild; and … I fancied even then that there was a certain lack of the interest I might have expected in them. [The] people of the remote were strict vegetarians (Wells)” as well. From this description Wells gives the impression that the Eloi have these characteristics because they appear to be the former aristocracy, a conclusion that can be drawn from Wells’s application of evolutionary theory. In the novel, The Time Traveler determines that the Eloi are small and frail because at some point they no longer had to work laborious jobs. Naturally, the only rational reason an individual wouldn’t have to work is because that person doesn’t have a pressing need to earn a wage, usually because they already have wealth, also known as the upper-class. Therefore, the Eloi are clearly descendants of the upper-class