The Time Traveler

At the start of chapter ten the Time Traveler returns to the same location where he watched the Eloi play in his first encounter with the future, but now he observes through a modified lens as he finally begins to realize what the true division between the Upper-world people and Under-grounders means.
The Time Traveler is given narrative authority which allows Wells to use this personal approach to give a storytelling appeal to the expression that ignorance is bliss, “the same beautiful scene, the same abundant foliage, the same splendid palaces and magnificent ruins” (Wells) that he overserved upon his arrival all have a different meaning to him with his newly acquired knowledge that this was not the Golden Age he believed it to be. His realization presents a mood of enlightenment towards the hopelessness for mankind.
Wells surprises readers with a twist on his positive symbolism by connecting it to a negative aspect of the plot. We see Wells do this a couple of times throughout the novel, not only when describing the scene where the Eloi play …show more content…
Throughout the novella, Wells makes implications that darkness is the only thing that creates discomfort among the Eloi. The darkness representing their mental state of darkness, with their true fate in the shadow of ignorance. That aside, the Eloi “knew of no enemies and provided against no needs” (Wells). He continues including the Morlocks into the metaphor who had no discomfort with darkness but instead used it to their advantage. He explains that the Eloi are feeble minded and ignorant whereas the Morlocks are industrialized, meat-eating beasts, suggesting that the Eloi are to cattle as the Morlocks are to humans. Though the Time Traveler implies that the Morlocks are beasts through his vulgar descriptions, the reality of what Wells is portraying is that the Morlocks are being described as