During the climax of the film, Alexander kills the Über-Morlock by
pushing him out of the moving time machine
.
What happens with the Time Traveler and the Morlocks in the well?
He explores further and finds a vast chamber filled with Morlocks and the throbbing machines that pump air through the caves. The Morlocks are eating some kind of meat. Suddenly, the matches that he is using to ward off the Morlocks run out, and they seize him.
He narrowly escapes back up the well.
What did the Time Traveler feel as the Morlocks attacked him?
So when the Morlocks do come to attack them, the Time Traveller has to put Weena down to light a match. She seems to
faint or totally freeze up
. He scares the Morlocks off, but he’s gotten himself turned around and isn’t sure which way to go. The nearly catatonic Weena is no help, so they’re lost in the forest.
What weapon does the Time Traveller use to scare away the Morlocks?
As they near the woods again, they hear Morlocks beginning to stir behind them. Night has fallen. Using the
camphor and some dry brush
he had collected, the Time Traveller starts a large fire to guard their retreat into the woods.
What are the Morlocks afraid of?
The Time Traveller feels worse – before, he just had to deal with the simplicity of the Eloi, but now he has to deal with the Morlocks, who he thinks of as “inhuman and malign” (7.1). Also, he’s afraid of
the dark and the new moon
.
Why are the Eloi afraid of the Morlocks?
Periodically, the Morlocks capture individual Eloi for food; and
because this typically happens on moonless nights
, the Eloi are terrified of darkness.
What did the Morlocks eat?
In most timelines, the Morlocks eat
their Eloi cousins
. The Morlocks are more technologically advanced than the Eloi, maintaining more remnants of human technology. In Mor, they live underground, using a series of wells to pump air through their tunnels.
What do the Morlocks represent in the time machine?
Seeing this, the Time Traveler speculates that the relationship developed from a class distinction present in his own time: the Morlocks are
the working class who were relegated to working and living underground so that the rich upper class could live in luxury on the surface
.
Why does the Time Traveller throw his shoes away?
Why does the Time Traveller throw his shoes away?
A nail keeps poking him in the heel and his ankle is swollen
. The Eloi have offered him a pair of their sandals. The distinct prints left by the shoe leave too obvious a trail for the Morlocks to follow.
What mistake did the Time Traveler make before running into the forest?
The Time Traveller’s mistake in
starting the fire
has now come back to bite him; while he thought that the fire would be controllable and would lead him to safety, the natural conditions of the forest led to a different outcome.
What does the Time Traveler lose?
The Time Traveller sets a fire, which gets out of control (doh!). He loses
Weena
but finds his Time Machine. He travels even farther into the future, when almost all life has died out.
What attacked the Time Traveller at the beach?
The Time Traveller makes several more stops. In a distant time he stops on a beach where he is attacked by
giant crabs
.
What do the Morlocks do for the Eloi?
Owing to vestigial impulse, the Morlocks still
feed and clothe
the Eloi, their once masters—thus the silk garments, the tables heaped with fruit—but they also harvest and eat them.
What does Eloi and Morlocks remind the Time Traveller of?
12. The Eloi remind the Time Traveller of:
Fairies
.
How does the Time Traveler seem to feel about the Eloi and the Morlocks?
The Time Traveller sees the Eloi as a weak, lazy, and unintelligent race evolved from the aristocratic upper class
. He also calls them childish in both their appearance and behavior. In contrast, he views the Morlocks as an ugly but industrious race who have evolved from the servant or working class.
Was the uber Morlock evil?
The Uber morlock was
a dark visage of humanities future
, as a coldly logical, arrogant, dominance-thirsty overlord, and his evolved intellect made him feel superior to the eloi and he ordered his subordinates to eat them and rape them to create more morlocks.
Are the Morlocks cannibals?
The Morlocks were cannibals
and the Eloi their game. “These Eloi were mere fatted cattle, which the ant-like Morlocks preserved and preyed upon—probably saw to the breeding of” (Wells 90).
Are the Morlocks evil?
The Morlocks are the main antagonists of the novel The Time Machine by the late H.G. Wells, and its film adaptations.
They are an evil race that evolved from humans
.
What do Eloi and Morlocks represent?
Light, Darkness, and Fire
In The Time Machine, darkness is directly associated with the evil Morlocks (as they can only see in the dark), and light is associated with the benevolent Eloi, who live in the sunlight.
What is the White sphinx?
The White Sphinx. The White Sphinx is
the first thing the Time Traveller sees in the future
, and it’s also the key to getting him out of the future (since that’s where the Morlocks hide his Time Machine).
What are the two classes that the Eloi and Morlocks came from?
•
The Eloi and Morlocks are two different creatures that can represent two different classes, the
upper and lower class
.
