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This is skillfullly done, given that this was the first Time Travel book.
Still, although in other works Wells supports 'the New Woman' still, the relationship with the infantile Weena leaves a bad taste in the mouth to many modern readers, becasue it seems to reflect the Victorian view of the ideal woman as passive and childlike. One even thinks of padeophilia. Still, surelythe relationship can't be truly sexual?
— Jun 20, 2018 02:18AM
Still, although in other works Wells supports 'the New Woman' still, the relationship with the infantile Weena leaves a bad taste in the mouth to many modern readers, becasue it seems to reflect the Victorian view of the ideal woman as passive and childlike. One even thinks of padeophilia. Still, surelythe relationship can't be truly sexual?
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'Man had been content to live in ease and delight upon the labours of his fellow man, had taken Necessity as his watchword and excuse, and in the fulness of time, Necessity had come home to him. I even tried a Carlyle like scorn of this wretched artistoracy in decay.'
The message here is overtly that the life of degraded toil of the proletariat current in Well's day must prove the undoing of the upper class.
— Jun 20, 2018 02:13AM
The message here is overtly that the life of degraded toil of the proletariat current in Well's day must prove the undoing of the upper class.
Lucinda Elliot
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I was interested to re-read this, as I hadn't read it since I was twenty.
I remember it was a dystopia, far more than firstly appears, where the workers had become degraded creatures living a brutal life underground, and the upper class lived as parasites who in fact, were - but that is to write a spoiler. They are depicted as amiable, but idiotic.
I have yet to meet Weena. I think I will be dismayed.
— Jun 15, 2018 12:47PM
I remember it was a dystopia, far more than firstly appears, where the workers had become degraded creatures living a brutal life underground, and the upper class lived as parasites who in fact, were - but that is to write a spoiler. They are depicted as amiable, but idiotic.
I have yet to meet Weena. I think I will be dismayed.
