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Darwin's Theories In The Time Traveller

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the Time Traveller develops some theories about the creatures he meets when he travels to the future. In the future the Traveller meets the Eloi and the Morlocks. The time traveler describes the Eloi in the following ways throughout the book; Very beautiful and graceful, fragile things, Pretty little people, and having a Dresden China type of prettiness. He describes the Morlocks as a human spider, new vermin, human rats and nauseatingly inhuman.

The first theory he makes about these creatures is that they are the sole descendants of humanity. He thinks or assumes that human progress continued to make life easier for humans, therefore they became stupid and lazy. He implies that this fate is actually the result of communism, since there would be no competition that it drove the human race to laziness. Darwin’s theory …show more content…

He comes up with this theory when he discovers that the Morlocks hunt and frighten the Eloi. He thinks that his second theory was true at the time but this is where he thinks of it as the revenge of the working class. This theory sounds more like the communism points he makes in the book, but Darwin’s theory of humans continuing to evolve holds true because the Morlocks had to evolve into savage beasts or they would starve.

Darwin’s theory holds mostly true in the three theories of the Time Traveller. The Eloi have been devolving for quite some time into lazy, stupid creatures. The Morlocks have been evolving for this time in order to survive. Darwin’s other theory that states, In nature, organisms are limited in their ability to survive, based on how their surrounding climate changes, is also true with these theories of the Time Traveller because the Morlocks and the Eloi changed with their surroundings or their climate. If they were at one time humans like us then they changed when the earth changed in order to

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