Time Machine Book

Reading The Time Machine is actually an experience going back to the source. This is Wells' debut novel as a science fiction writer and the first novel to detail the process of "time travel", with detailed and vivid depictions of what is seen, how the body feels, and the tools used. It shaped people's perception of this literary genre and provided the basis for similar works for more than 120 years.

Not only that, Wells also used the most advanced theories and techniques to explain the storyline for the first time, based on the scientific understanding of the time, and proposed the concept that time is the "fourth dimension".This means that after traveling through time, the spatial position does not move at the same time, thus introducing the expression from the previous wishing and dreaming to a more rigorous and rational framework. It can be said that all the works about "time travel" since then have more or less the shadow of "Time Machine".

Time Machine presents a disturbing scenario in which humans, as the species at the top of the evolutionary tree, don't necessarily get more advanced. This view was inherited from Darwin and Huxley, and criticized and warned against the mainstream Victorian concept of arrogance and self-esteem as the "primate of all things".Eighty thousand years later, our descendants will either be elegant and gentle but treated as food, or Morlock people who hide deep in the crypt and drink blood. Under the glamorous appearance, the primitive instinct of man remains, and any species may regress to its most primitive state in the process of evolution.

The anatomy of modern humans is not much different from their Paleolithic ancestors, and more significant changes occur in the brain. In Wells's view, the development of species and civilization is closely linked, and the development of civilization is accompanied by the emergence of moral concepts, allowing primitive man to become modern man.We may never be able to completely defeat the beast within, but at least we can restrain it with moral yardsticks, which are based on education. Acquire knowledge, understand good and evil, understand what cannot be done, and why cannot be done. Science raises an essential question: What exactly is a human being? Wells' fictional future scenario responds to the anxiety caused by this question.

2023-04-13

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