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Well, if this book doesn't make you want to tape over your laptop camera, we don't know what will.
Imagine a world in which all literature was dystopian. Okay, so we may be getting to that point, 1984 and V for Vendetta helped start it all.
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Dystopian Literature 15 Eloi and Morlocks 32 Views
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Eloi and Morlocks...sounds like something out of Dungeons and Dragons. So...what are they? Or...who are they? Let's watch and find out.
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Thank you We sneak in Dystopian literature alloy and more
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locks last month What is the time machine about So
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h g wells is a writer very interested in science
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is trying to imagine what the future is going to
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be like Is it going to be scary Is it
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going to be exciting And what is mankind's role in
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it even going to be And so from that you
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get the time machine which as you might expect is
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the story of a time traveller who goes a few
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thousand years into the future where he meets these humanoid
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creatures on what that means is they're recognizable as humans
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but they also have weird and distinct other qualities Who
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are the eloi and the morlocks So he meets the
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alloy first and they are a beautiful graceful very distinguished
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seeming species They are kind of what you would want
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humans to look like if you projected forward into the
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future and then you know a little while After he
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meets them he meets the morlocks which are the cooler
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opposite because they are human berman's like rats like imagine
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a human combined with a rat and he has to
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interact with both of these types of people You would
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expect that so far into the future a few men's
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would have is evolved But what the time traveler actually
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discovers is that both the eloi and the morlocks air
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like kind of dumb Unfortunately thie eli ask him if
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he is like their god work He came from the
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sun and he's just basically confused and unhappy and it's
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not a good future at all What is the time 00:02:01.96 --> [endTime] machine about Who are the eloi and the morlocks
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