A_Review_of_The_Time_Machine_《时间机器》读后感(英语).doc

The Report on The Time MachineThe Time Machine is a science fiction by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895. The novel soon became popular because of the appealing plot and the future world he described in the story. The whole story tells a man who travels through time by a special vehicle experiences a special journey. He sees the future society and human beings. The writer H. G. Wells was only 27 when the book was published. Herbert George Wells known by his pen name H. G. Wells, was a British author. Also he was a socialist and a pacifist. Once he was bedridden because of his broken leg. During that period, he started to read in order to pass time. Then the books stimulated his desire to write. However he didnt have a peaceful life in his young age. Fortunately, his parents allowed him to study finally, and then he began to show his great talent. He won scholarships and studied in many colleges. The novels he wrote usually were very popular. His early works now are classic in science fictions. Among them includes: The Time Machine, The History of Mr. Polly, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The Island of Doctor Moreau. And this novel The Time Machine reflects Wellss own socialist political views and the contemporary angst about industrial relations. The future world he described in the story shows his opinions about the future. The story begins with the protagonist theory that time is the fourth dimension. He thinks that people can travel back and forth through time. And he is right though other people didnt believe it. The Time Traveler invents a special machine which took him to the year 802,701 AD. There he finds an apparently peaceful and pastoral society. A group of small humans greet him. These people are called Eloi. They are surprised and curious about his arrival. The Eloi live in small communities, doing no work and eating strange fruits. The natural landscape around tells that there is no active agriculture and industry. It seems that the Eloi are incapable of doing physical labor. The Time Traveler begins to explore the area. He tries to communicate with the Eloi and know something about their life, but when he returns he finds that his time machine is gone. He thinks it has been put inside the pedestal of a nearby statue. He tries to open it but fails. In the evening, he begins to catch glimpses of strange white ape-like creatures the Eloi call Morlocks. The group of creatures lives underground. They are very cruel. As they come out of the underground, they begin to kill Eloi, and eat them as their food. During the chaos, the Time Traveler saves one of the Eloi from drowning, and she befriends him. Her name is Weena. In order to get back his time machine, he works up enough courage to go down into the world of Morlocks with Weena. He finds that matches are good defense against the Morlocks. They find matches in an ancient museum. He accidentally starts a fire. Many Morlocks die in the fire and the battle ceases, and Weena is killed. He finds his machine in next morning, and springs onto the machine and whizzes into the future. The Time Traveler makes several more stops, and then he travels thirty million years into the future. Along the way he sees the changes of the earth. He then returns to the present time. The next day, he leaves again, but never returns. What happened to him, and where he ultimately ventured, remains a mystery. In the story, the human race has diverged into two branches. The wealthy, leisured classes appear to have devolved into the weak and not very bright Eloi. Since they have subjugated nature, then they have no further need for technology, agriculture, or innovations to improve life, so they become unimaginative and incurious about the world. With no work to do, they become physically weak and small in stature. But the working classes have evolved into the bestial Morlock. The main thread of the story is the adventure tale of the Eloi and Morlock in the year 802,701 AD. The adventure includes the Time Travelers journey to the underground, his fear of the great forest, his relationship to Weena, and his further journey to the future. The exciting plots make the story attractive. The Time Machines literary influences are numerous. Wellss novella has become one of the cornerstones of science-fiction literature. As a result, it has spawned many offspring. Many works expanding on Wellss story come out later. Like all of Wellss futurist fiction, The Time Machine has a tingle of negative, making the readers to consider the possibility of the darker side, not only humanity, but also the nature. Wells justifies the monstrous behavior of the creatures in his novel not only just by his great imagination but also the theory of natural selection and Darwins theory of evolution. What I like about this novel is not just the world that Wells creates, but the great differences between modern human and the future human. This point gives us a warm in some degree. By making the central character of his story a time traveler who can transport himself back and forth in time with the help of a machine he invented, Wells attempted to fathom