The Time Machine Flashcards

1
Q

Summary

A

Time machine mar who goes to future meets tiny people
Then goes further in future - even worse

Future is worse

Disappears at end

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2
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Narrative structure

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From the view point of one of the diners hearing the story -

Then for a majority of text - from view of time traveller

Back to diner

Diner believes him- so we do aswell as clothes were ripped

Time traveller explains in detail of what happens

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3
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Language

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Vegetarian - calls - ‘frugivorous’

Makes the novel more complex

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4
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Character

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The time traveller

Honest even if he made a mistake - at first he thought the species he encountered were ‘child-like’ etc
‘May be fools’

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5
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Context time and place

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Set in 1890s

Guilded age - industrialisation etc

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6
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Ending

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Disappears

Ambiguous

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