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The Outer and Inner Worlds of H.G. Wells and R.L. Stevenson
Title: The Outer and Inner Worlds of H.G. Wells and R.L. Stevenson
Category: Literature / European Literature
Details: Words: 1146 | Pages: 4.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Outer and Inner Worlds of H.G. Wells and R.L. Stevenson
H.G. Wells' (1866-1946) 'The Time Machine' (1894) consists mainly of his predictions of what could happen in the future, according to his time. The Time Traveller travels forward to the year 802,701AD, but still in England is his, evolved, back garden. When he arrives, he finds two completely different social worlds: the Upper classes have become weak and their intellect decreased, whereas the Working class have moved underground and have become cannibalistic.
Wells starts off his …showed first 75 words of 1146 total…
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The enigma of Hyde's existence is explained when a letter of confession is found at the scene of Hyde's horrific suicide. It describes who, when Jekyll was Hyde, he committed suicide to kill off the horror of this addiction. The addiction was to the drug that transformed him into Hyde. The horror of taking one's own life in order to kill another is an extremely graphic one.
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