1. -Source: Hammond, John R. “Ideas”. H.G, Wells’s the Time Machine: A Reference Guide. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004. 149

 

 

-Evidence: “ Wells observed that each of his scientific romances pointed a moral and that The Time Machine was meant to suggest ‘the responsibility of men to mankind’” (83)

 

-This is very valuable as it directly relates to your topic.

 

 

-Supports: It is clear that the time traveler has taken responsibly towards the nation of the year 802,700. Through his determination, grief and concerns he seems to want to change the treatment of civilization with his humanitarianism. He wants their human race to value social development. - Why do you think that is? For example, what does it mean to the character of the Time Traveler to see his race come to that existence when he expected glorious progress? It is perhaps like imagining castles and finding sand. So, perhaps, the traveler's humanitarian motivation is at first connected to survival, not just physically but also mentally, survival of his dream, the hope that the Eloi and Morlocks still have humanity as he knew it inside of them? You don't have to agree with this but think about it.

 

 

   2. Source: Smith, Samantha. “Tom Holt Talks Time Travel”. Orbit Books. 2008.  07 July 2009.

<http://www.orbitbooks.net/2008/05/01/tom-holt-talks-time-travel/>

 

 

Evidence: “Where’s your sense of social responsibility? You wouldn’t fritter away the amazing potential of time travel in an orgy of gross materialism.”

 

Supports: His initial point for time traveling seemed to be for his own curiosity but after proceeding with his journey he felt he had a responsibility to develop their lands social value. He used his machine to right past wrongs and modify the future for the better. But of course there are consequences. This articles speech upon the problems with time travel.

 

-This is useful as well.

 

 

-Arielle 

 

 

     3. Source. Parrinder, Patrick, Ed. Later Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century English and European Novelists: H.G. Wells. Routledge, 1997. Otis College Library, eBrary Database.

 

http://site.ebrary.com.proxyserver.otis.edu/lib/otis/docDetail.action

 

 

-Evidence: Compilation of various reviews of The Time Machine from Wells’ contemporaries, from the time of the book’s original publishing.

 

 

-Supports: Wells’ implicit critique of Victorian society, and the responsibility assigned to the Time Traveller as a purveyor of this knowledge/warning of the future. 

 

 

     4: Source: Beaumont, Matthew. Utopia Ltd : Ideologies of Social Dreaming in England 1870-1900. Brill, 2005. Otis College Library, eBrary Database.

http://site.ebrary.com.proxyserver.otis.edu/lib/otis/docDetail.action?docID=10171746&p00=h.g.%20wells

 

 

 

-Evidence: “This double ideological burden is embodies in the narrative strategy of The Time Machine (1895)...H.G. Well’s portrait of a dystopia in which proletarian primates prey on an effete super-human species is a dire warning to the bourgeousie of what will happen if it does not implement minimal social reforms in the present.”

 

 

-Supports: Wells’ call for social responsibility and reform, as expounded by his harsh depiction of humanity’s eventual descendants, the Morlocks and Eloi. 

 

-     ----Julia

 

5. "The last book written by H.G. Wells was Mind at the End of Its Tether published in 1945. It was not a proper book but --just three terse essays disclosing that the human race had doomed itself to extinction...The fact remains that at the end of his life he foresaw the inevitable self destruction of humankind."

 

Source:  Wagar, Warren W. H.G. Wells. September: Weslyn University Press, 2004.

 

link: http://books.google.com/books?id=HExGaHDhVbUC&printsec=frontcover&rview=1&source=gbs_navlinks_s

 

Support: A look at Wells the man and his political ideas, His final musings on life and society reflect upon the time traveler.

 

 

 

" 'I am, by a sort of predestination, a socialist.' Wells wrote once. And everything one can say of him serves merely to explain, justify, qualify, illuminate and refine that satement."

 

6. Source: Brooks, Van Wyck. The World of H.G. Wells. Boston: Harvard University Press, 1915.

 

link: http://books.google.com/books?id=NEAWAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=H.+G.+Wells+-inauthor:%22H.+G.+Wells%22&as_brr=3&rview=

Support: Brings Wells socialist ideas into play. Why did he write that ending for the Time Machine? What was he trying to say?

 

-Chris