44 pages • 1 hour read
H. G. WellsThe Time Machine
Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1895A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Essay Topics
Besides a box of matches, what other items from 1895 might the Time Traveller have brought with him to make his visit to the future less dangerous and stressful?
The Time Traveller finds a beautiful world of plenty in 802,000 AD. Explain why this upsets him.
The Eloi make two mistakes—one that involves their treatment of their cousins underground and one that concerns their view of the perfect life. Explain these two mistakes and how it leads to the slow collapse of all traces of human civilization.
The Traveller finds his Time Machine, cleaned and oiled, inside the sphinx statue’s large pedestal. How does he know this is a trap, and why does he enter the trap anyway?
Think of two things the Time Traveller could have brought back with him that would prove definitively that he had visited the future.
Does the Time Traveller’s visit to the far future, followed by his return to the present day to report on it, change that future? Explain why or why not.
Why are flowers important to the Time Traveller’s story?
When he makes his first trip in time, the Traveller returns roughly at the moment when he departed. On his second trip, he doesn’t return to his moment of departure. Explain why this suggests that he may have met with disaster.
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