The Eloi and Morlocks in H.G. Wells' The Time Machine

This is an essay about H.G. Wells' The Time Machine. The author of the essay focuses on the two populations represented in the book, the Eloi and the Morlocks. The Eloi represent rich people who relax in their wealth and do not work to contribute to civilization. The Eloi had little knowledge or creativity. The Morlocks kill the Eloi and eat them for dinner. The Morlocks cannot see in the daytime because they have lived in darkness for so long and used to eat rats but ran out of them. The Morlocks represent the working class who maintain survival skills at the cost of their physical, emotional, and social lives.
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