Eloi
The Eloi are a species that feature in The Time Machine.
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History
The Eloi
By the year AD 802,701, humanity has evolved into two separate species: the Eloi and the Morlocks. The Eloi live a banal life of ease on the surface of the Earth while the Morlocks live underground, tending machinery and providing food, clothing, and inventory for the Eloi. The Time Traveller believed that the separation of species may have been the result of a widening split between different social classes. With all their needs and desires perfectly fulfilled, the Eloi had slowly become dissolute and naïve. Periodically, the Morlocks captured individual Eloi for food; and because this typically happens on moonless nights, the Eloi came to be terrified of darkness.
In a further future, the 'proto-Eloi' had achieved a true utopian society, whose subtle complexity and technological advancement (so advanced that the technology was practically invisible) were incomprehensible to The Time Traveler when he visited their era. However, it was a refreshing and relaxing era with much intellectual stimulation but little or no space travel.
Overview
In appearance, they were described as smaller than modern humans, with shoulder-length curly hair, pointed chins, large eyes, small ears, small mouths with bright red thin lips, and sub-human intelligence.
They do not perform much work, except to feed, play, and mate, and are characterized by apathy. It was shown that even if one were drowning that the other members of their kind did not move to save them.
The Eloi were herded, bred and maintained by the Morlocks as a food source similar to livestock.
Members
- Weena :
- Mara :
- Belinda Morris :
- Runa :
- Joff :
Notes
- The Eloi were created by H. G. Wells where they featured in the setting of The Time Machine.
In other media
Films
- In The Time Machine, the Eloi appeared in the setting of the 1960 live-action film. They were depicted as identical to modern humans but small, blond, and blue-eyed. The Morlocks use an air raid siren to put the Eloi into a trance state and lure them into their caves. One of the Eloi is motivated to beat a Morlock to death when it attacks the Time Traveller.
- In The Time Machine, the Eloi appeared in the setting of the 2002 live-action film. They were depicted as identical to modern humans with a hunter-gatherer lifestyle and sport primitive-style clothing and appear to be an ethnic amalgamation of various indigenous races but maintain the English language as an intellectual exercise.
Appearances
- The Time Machine:
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