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A Common Issue Brought Up Throughout Time Travel Works Essay

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A common issue brought up throughout time travel works is the fear or idea of possibly changing the present or future by changing the past. This fear and issue is prominent in the works read during the first half of this semester. H.G. Wells brings up many different issues in The Time Machine but I find the most important is this idea of changing history, if only in a small way. Changing the future or present can have both negative and positive outcomes. An analysis of Timescape reveals the idea of preventing problems from happening and in turn changing the past and present, and this is also present in the movie About Time and In The Tube.
Throughout The Time Machine, the Time Traveller is going to a time in the future. He encounters these two types of people who live totally different lives. The Time Traveler tries to explain his experience to his peers only for them to not believe him. The Time Traveler talks about all the things that are different in this new world, the future, and how he felt about them all. He is skipping through time, and experiencing time more quickly. The Time Traveler chose to go in the future and see what it would be like, instead of going into the past. I feel the reason is because of fear and possibly changing what once was. Even though he did travel to the future he still had fear even after telling himself he had nothing to fear. “I sat upon the edge of the well telling myself that, at any rate, there was nothing to fear, and that there I

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