“The Time Machine” is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, published in 1895. This novel has revolutionized the concept of using a vehicle to time travel. It was written in a time where industrialization was booming, new technological advances were being discovered, people constantly debated about capitalism and communism, and the theory of “Social Darwinism” was being viciously applied. To summarize the novel, a Victorian scientist is determined to prove his theory that there is a fourth dimension, which is time. And like the other three dimensions (space), you can move forward and backward. To demonstrate this, he builds a time machine and travels to the future, where he encounters the Eloi, and describes them as pale and weak physically …show more content…
After that he returns to tell the story and again goes back to the future and never comes back. The novel has three significant film adaptations; all have modified the events of the story in one way or another. In this research essay, the changes inflicted on the film, their effects, and the reasons behind them will be discussed. First of all, the George Pal 1960 film adaptation analysis. This version of The Time Machine is the only one that did not discard the opening scene and the dinners, although it has combined the two dinners into one. However, the nameless characters who were referred to by their professions now have names. This is significant in the fact that maintaining anonymous characters helps the readers to understand that the author was generalizing specific groups of society and their opinion regarding scientific progress, the Medical Man represents scientific people and their beliefs and the Psychologist represents spiritual people and so on. In addition, the argumentative man has turned into a timid Filby, leaving the arguing to the other guests. The Time Traveler’s motives have remained purely scientific as they were in the book. The film …show more content…
The Time Machine book is rich with the controversial ideologies of the 18th century, and a lot of what was changed in the three films have caused the plot to be trivial and without much meaning. The uncertainty of which ideology to support, whether scientific advancement is good or not, and the anti-war message are all either abolished or quite subtle. Instead, the directors have resorted to creating a version of the book that is overly simplified, and their representations of the Eloi and the additional love stories seem to be there only to cater to the audience wants to see. Each one of the films by itself is a good Sci-Fi film and nothing more than that, and compared to Well’s book, they do not do him