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What is Morlock in The Time Machine?
Morlocks, as they appear in the 1960s Time Machine film. The Morlocks are a humanoid species which is descended from humans, particularly low-class underground machine operators. They exist in several future timelines, notably in Mor. They are subterranean, and prefer dark, as their eyes are sensitive to light.
How did The Time Traveler describe the Morlocks?
The Morlocks are meant to be the villains of the story, they are terrifying creatures that reside underground feasting on the peaceful Eloi, the time traveller describes them as ‘inhuman’, ‘vermin’, and likens them to rats.
What do the Morlocks do for the Eloi?
Owing to vestigial impulse, the Morlocks still feed and clothe the Eloi, their once masters—thus the silk garments, the tables heaped with fruit—but they also harvest and eat them.
Are the Morlocks cannibals?
The Morlocks were cannibals and the Eloi their game. “These Eloi were mere fatted cattle, which the ant-like Morlocks preserved and preyed upon—probably saw to the breeding of” (Wells 90).
What does a Morlock look like?
After thousands of generations of living without sunlight, the Morlocks have dull grey-to-white skin, chinless faces, large greyish-red eyes with a capacity for reflecting light, and flaxen hair on the head and back.
What do Morlocks eat?
the Eloi
The Morlocks eat, hunt, and terrorize the Eloi, just as the ancestors of the Eloi metaphorically preyed on their subjugated workers.
What do Eloi look like?
With all their needs and desires perfectly fulfilled, the Eloi have slowly become dissolute and naive: they are described as smaller than modern humans, with shoulder-length curly hair, pointed chins, large eyes, small ears, small mouths with bright red thin lips, and sub-human intelligence.
What do the Morlocks look like?
Are the Morlocks the antagonist in the time machine?
They have no other food, and they have been exploited by the Eloi for centuries, which makes their moral position complex. Nonetheless, the Morlocks are the antagonists of The Time Machine, and part of the book’s pessimism is its conclusion that the Morlocks are on their way to ruling the earth.
Why are the Morlocks so evil?
The Morlocks are seen by the Time Traveller as an evil species, and their clammy, pale bodies and enormous eyes certainly contribute to their menacing aura, but it’s important to note that the Morlocks prey on the Eloi out of necessity.
Why didn’t the Morlocks claim the surface?
The only reason the Morlocks hadn’t yet claimed the surface is that their eyes could not adjust, but their strength,… (full context) …has changed, human culture has become extinct, and what’s left are the Eloi and the Morlocks. He realizes suddenly that the Morlocks eat the Eloi. (full context) …and Weena traverse the wood.