TIME MACHINE

Wells' time machine, more than a decade later, as a primary school student, I was shocked by the setting of this late 19th century United Kingdom's early science fiction novel. Scientists travel through the future to discover that humans split into two groups, the Earthman (Eloi) and the Undergroundman (Morlock). The former is small, slender, white and beautiful, no need to work, and enjoy the materials produced by underground people. The latter are ugly and terrifying as giant-eyed chinchillas, working all day, extremely light-sensitive to live in the dark, damp ground. But when night falls, the underground people climb up to the ground to hunt for the weak and incompetent Eloi. When I was a child, I felt grotesque, but now I feel that this is prophecy, the division between beauty and ugliness, the division between pleasure and labor, the division between civilization and barbarism, the division between rich and poor. But the subterraneans who appear to be the bottom of the earth can control the death of the earthlings. It has been unclear how the author's order of power in that world is sorted, strong and weak are so relative and inverted. Perhaps it is the prosperity and decline, polarization at the end of the capital created heaven and hell, and let the hell created by their own destruction of heaven.