The Time Traveller by H G Wells. :: English Literature

The clip Traveller by H G Wells.Time TravelFor my English Coursework Wide exercise Assignment I have read two S Fnovels. Even though they were written over 50 years unconnected they argonsimilar in some personal manners and different in others. Both the books werebased around period decease. The first was the Time Traveller by H GWells. A scientist had discovered a way to last through time andwhen he travels to the future he finds that civilisation has confoundeddown. The other book I read was The Sound of thunder by rayBradbury, this was about a group of people who travelled blanket in timeto hunt and kill animals. I think that this shows how Bradburyperceives the way we hire the technology we have. It does not seem tobe for the benefit of all populace solely as a toy for those who canafford it. It could be used for so much more than hunting dinosaurs.Both authors intentionally make their characters two-dimensional. Thismay be because the stories are about time travel and civilisationrather than the individuals in the narrative. When Wells wrote hisnovel there were no telephones or aeroplanes, technology was not soadvanced and the reading humanity would be sceptical about time travelHis characters are sea captain men who will convince the reader thatWells ideas are possible recite (the professional bit)It is strange that much of what Wells wrote has come true, even thoughpeople may have felt it was furthest fetched over light speed years ago. In 100years from now perhaps those far fetched stories of now may cometrue. It could be that people like Wells and Bradbury had a realinsight into the future. Perhaps they saw the way civilisation was press release in their own time.Bradbury is more contemporary than Wells and his vision, though monstrous in its own way does not seem so far fetched to a late 20thCentury audience. Ray Bradbury generally just uses the characterssurname in the fib. This keeps a more macho feel to the huntingactivities an d there are no women. The characters described arehuntersQuote (opening advert)There are several men who have paid their money to travel back toJurassic times to hunt and kill the dinosaursQuote (rules)The tenor of the story remains masculine with the rules reinforced ina curt wayQuote (speaks to Eckles etc.)Bradburys short story focuses more on the effects of time travel thanWells. In Bradburys tale when the travellers go back to the pastEckles goes glum the suspended path and stands on a butterfly causing large changes when they travel back to their own time.