They come out at night and capture Eloi to take them to their underground lair just to turn them into food.
The setting in the Time machine is in two main places. The story in the book is being told by the time traveller in his house parlour. The main bulk of where he is in the story however is around the Thames area of London in the year 802,701
The time machine is taken by the morlocks into the black sphinx. By the time the Traveller arrives in the year 802,701 AD, humans have divded into two species: the fun loving, simple minded, no care Eloi; and, the brutal, techno-puppets the Morlocks. The Morlocks are mechanics in the simplest sense of the word. They have lost all humanity and have simply become part of the machines they keep functioning. They are drawn to things mechanical, and when they find the Traveller's time machine, like rodents attracted to shiney items, they take it back to their lair. There is no malice in it, just action; simple, mindless, action.
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The cast of Time Machine - 2004 includes: Jeremy Vine as Narrator
The cast of Time Machine - 1992 includes: Amrish Puri Raveena Tandon
The Morlocks are Troglodyte-like creatures who live mostly underground .
The Time Machine By H.G.Wells
The Eloi and the Morlocks are characters from the science fiction novel "The Time Machine" written by H.G. Wells. The Eloi are a peaceful, childlike species living on the surface, while the Morlocks are a subterranean and more sinister group. The protagonist of the story encounters both civilizations during his time-traveling adventures.
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Eloi and Morlocks appear in H.G. Wells' novel "The Time Machine." The Eloi are a peaceful, childlike people who live above ground, while the Morlocks are underground-dwelling, subterranean creatures who prey on the Eloi. The novel explores themes of class division and evolution.
In Chapter 6 of "The Time Machine," the central conflict of the protagonist's struggle to return to his own time is worsened by the Morlocks stealing the time machine. This event complicates the protagonist's plans and increases the urgency of his mission to retrieve the machine and escape the dystopian future world of the Eloi and the Morlocks.
The cannibalistic beasts in HG Wells' book "The Time Machine" are called Morlocks. They are a species that evolved underground in the distant future and prey on the Eloi, another species that lives above ground.
In H.G. Wells's "The Time Machine," the Time Traveller encounters the Morlocks, who are described as having sensitive, whip-like antennae that they use to perceive their surroundings. The antennae play a role in highlighting the Morlocks' divergent evolutionary path and their predatory nature.
The Time Traveller initially assumes that the Eloi, who live above ground in luxury, are a higher evolved species and the Morlocks, who live underground, are a primitive working class sub-species. He believes there is a symbiotic relationship between them where the Morlocks provide for the Eloi's needs.
In H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine," the creatures that live above ground are the Eloi, who are peaceful and childlike, and the Morlocks, who are mysterious and sinister. The Eloi live above ground in harmony, while the Morlocks live underground and come to the surface at night.
Whew! Talk about missing the point of a good story! H.G. Wells never gave a specific number for the population of the Morlocks in his book "The Time Machine". Who cares anyway? That's sorta like asking the number of Santa's helpers at the North Pole! The number of Morlocks or Enoi really would have no meaning in the book or to the "moral" of the story. The drift of the story was that in the future the human race would devolve into two subspecies roughly based on the notion of an "elite" class and a "working" class, that was a pervasive idea in Victorian society of Wells' time. But if you're so totally anal that you absolutely must have an exact quantity for the number Morlocks, then the number of the Morlocks is exactly equal to the number of the Enoi!
In H.G. Wells' novel "The Time Machine," the post-human races encountered by the Time Traveller include the Eloi and the Morlocks. The Eloi are described as beautiful but frail and childlike, while the Morlocks are described as ape-like, nocturnal, and living underground. Both races have evolved from humans over thousands of years.