ELEMENTS OF FANTASY IN H.G.WELLS’ THE TIME MACHINE

Authors

  • Dr. Kalpana Rohit Asst. Professor Department of English Sri Aurobindo College (eve.) University of Delhi

Keywords:

facts, fantasy, imaginary

Abstract

The larger site of fantasy comes to be associated with a chain of an effect akin to cinematic formation in which every event is properly laid into distinct chain or sequence. Sometimes, because of its association with sub and unkind of consciousness, the meaning brought out by illusory description is held in dream like appearance. In the modern times, the validity of study of fantasy could be associated with a proper and legitimate recognition of the communication that man makes with himself and within himself. H.G.Wells’ The Time Machine is basically a journey from ‘fact to fantasy’ with the imaginative faculty, literary proficiency and use of logical scientific theory by the author. His foresightedness is clearly visible in choosing time travel as the subject for his very first novel. Apart from this it shows his curiosity to deal with a very new theme which grasps attention towards what he has to say about the effects of the iniquity of the Victorian and Edwardian society and searching possible answers in the imaginary future.

References

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2014-03-31

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