1. Relevance of the character Filiby (p.21 - 29)
Filiby is an argumentative person with red hair. He doesn't seem to accept anything without
reasonable ground for it. He doesn't have the intellectual level as the Time Traveller, but he tries
to contradict him or comments him to show that he also knows that. As he is totally inferior to
the Time Traveller in this discussion he became very fast pensive and didn't make any foolish
comments anymore. The idea of a time machine is absurd to him and he tells loudly that the
Time Traveller will never convince him. Filiby starts laughing at him as a token for his
amusement about the Time Traveller's theory. While the others were fancying about the
possibilities of a time machine, Filiby consists of seeing the experiment to reveal the Time
Traveller as a liar. Filiby compares him with a conjurer, but his anecdote collapsed when the
Time Traveller arrived with his little experiment as the others were too excited and didn't want
to miss anything. He couldn't believe it when the little thing disappeared.
2. Relevance of the social situation (p.67 - 70)
There are two different types of people in this world. The upperworld people called "Eloi" and
the underground people called "Marlocks". The two species have resulted from the evolution.
The power of these two civilizations is not balanced, as the "Marlocks" dominate over the
"Elois". As soon as it is getting dark the "Elois" gather together to hide and protect themselves
before the "Marlocks". The Time Traveller has found out that the meat which he has seen was
from a human body and concludes that this specie must be cannibals. The Time Traveller
believes to see confirmation in his theory about the social differents between the Capitalists and
the Laborers which has caused this situation (p. 64 - 67)
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