The Time Machine

Question 1

Parergon

Answer 1

The support that makes what is inside the frame seem whole or manageable

Question 2

Ergon

Answer 2

What is inside the frame, requires the frame to give it meaning because it lacks something within itself

Question 3

Degeneration

Answer 3

Organisms don’t necessarily also progress in evolution but adapt to their environment, meaning they may regress

Question 4

Dryden’s view on where monsters come from

Answer 4

They emerge not from the supernatural but the conditions of the modern social and political world

Question 5

Spencer’s view on the individual and society

Answer 5

The survival of the fittest: struggle and competition are necessary, taking this away would encourage weakness

Question 6

Huxley’s view on the individual and society

Answer 6

Whilst we have unconscious, amoral evolutionary processes we should intervene as humans and that is what human morality is, we can help the weak and vulnerable

Question 7

What paradox does Hume identify?

Answer 7

Not being able to accept both the biological and social message of the text. Not improving conditions keads to nightmare but improving them would cause a return to Utopia and its degeneration