The Time Machine Flashcards
Summary
Time machine mar who goes to future meets tiny people
Then goes further in future - even worse
Future is worse
Disappears at end
Narrative structure
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
Language
Vegetarian - calls - ‘frugivorous’
Makes the novel more complex
Character
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’
Context time and place
Set in 1890s
Guilded age - industrialisation etc
Ending
Disappears
Ambiguous