FINAL TASK

INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE

ARRANGED BY
MUH. IKHSAN B
1788203005

ENGLISH EDUCATION
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
MUSLIM UNIVERSITY OF MAROS
2018/2019
Muh. Ikhsan B Introduction to Literature
1788203005 Final Task
Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
Novel Review

The Time Machine

(148 Pages)
The time machine is the most famous science fiction in history. This novel tells
the story of Time Traveller who managed to create a time machine the stranded in
a world far from its shadow.

1. Plot (Chronological Plot)

a. Introduction : Tell the concept of time traveler using a machine that allows
the operator to travel intentionally and selectively forward or backward in
time.
 “There is, however, a tendency to draw an unreal
distinction between the former three dimensions and the
latter, because it happens that our consciousness moves
intermittently in one direction along the latter from the
beginning to the end of our lives.’ (pages 3-4)
b. Conflict : When someone is not sure about of the time traveler.
 “But,’ said the Medical Man, staring hard at a coal in the
fre, ‘if Time is really only a fourth dimension of Space,
why is it, and why has it always been, regarded as
something different? And why cannot we move in Time
as we move about in the other dimensions of Space?”
(page 6)
c. Climax : When people still don’t believe and the Time Traveler proves the
truth about his time machine.
 “I should have thought of it. It’s plain enough, and helps
the paradox delightfully. We cannot see it, nor can we
appreciate this machine, any more than we can the
spoke of a wheel spinning, or a bullet flying through the
air. If it is travelling through time ffty times or a hundred
 times faster than we are, if it gets through a minute
while we get through a second, the impression it creates
will of course be only one fftieth or one hundredth of
what it would make if it were not travelling in time. That’s
plain enough.’ He passed his hand through the space in
which the machine had been. ‘You see?’ he said,
laughing. “ (page 15)
d. Denouement : And then after all this time in the future and returned
insensible
 “So I came back. For a long time I must have been
insensible upon the machine. The blinking succession of
the days and nights was resumed, the sun got golden
again, the sky blue. I breathed with greater freedom. The
fluctuating contours of the land ebbed and flowed. The
hands spun backward upon the dials. At last I saw again
the dim shadows of houses, the evidences of decadent
humanity.” (page 138)

2. Setting (Time, Atmosphere and Place)

a. Time : In the 19th century and the future in the year 802701
b. Atmosphere : Dramatically
c. Place :
 “... there is the Metropolitan Railway in London,” (page
78)
 “... I almost walked into a little river.” (page 97)
 “Clearly we stood among the ruins of some latter-day in
South Kensington!” (page 104)

3. Characters (Major and Minor Characters)

 The Time Traveller as the major character
 Eloi as the major character
 Morlock as the major character
 Weena as the major character
 The Editor as the minor character
 The Medical Man as the minor character
 The Psychologist as the minor character
 Provincial Mayor as the minor character
 Filby as the minor character
4. Theme
“There is one of most interesting theme in this story that can be classified as
the theme. Through the story Eloi and Morlock in the middle story, tells that
technology could eventually result in the undoing of society and mankind. The
novel shows us that while technologies can lead to great progress, they can also
lead to violence.”

5. Point of View (First Person)

6. Style (Informal Diction)