Meet the Cast
The Time Traveller
Sure, building a Time Machine is pretty impressive, but let's not forget that the Time Traveller also designed his own chair, a chair which "embraced and caressed" the sitter (1.1). We're picturing...
The Eloi and the Morlocks
Would you rather be weak and fragile or brutish and disgusting? In Wells's vision of the year 802,701, those are pretty much your only options. (If you prefer, skip to the far, far future, where yo...
Weena
Weena is one lucky Eloi – she gets burned to death rather than eaten. The Time Traveller is relieved when he thinks the forest fire got her before the Morlocks (9.16) – and he's her friend! Wee...
The Narrator / Hillyer
The unnamed narrator is just one of the dinner guests, so why does he get his own character analysis? Like the other guests, he's mostly left undescribed, and we don't even know what he does for a...
The Dinner Guests
To judge from the dinner party, the Time Traveller has a wide circle of friends, which includes scientific folks, a politician, and several jerks. We learn very little about these characters, who a...