EloiOne of the two post-human races in Wells' vision of the future.
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A seemingly peaceful and defenseless race, depicted as living on the surface of a distant future Earth."The Eloi live above ground and fear the dark because of the Morlocks."
MorlocksThe other of the two post-human races in Wells' vision of the future.
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A brutish, nocturnal race living underground that retains the technological and mechanical knowledge of humanity."The Morlocks, unlike the Eloi, live below ground and have control over machinery."
TemporalRelating to time or sequence of time.
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Relating to worldly affairs; secular."The king's temporal power was unquestioned."
Relating to or affecting the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things."He is more interested in the temporal than the spiritual."
DystopiaAn imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one.
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An imagined place or state in which everything is extremely bad or unjust, especially an authoritarian or totalitarian one."The book presents a dystopia where technology has led to an oppressive and unjust society."
DegenerationThe state or process of being or becoming degenerate; decline or deterioration.
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The process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality."The story is about the degeneration of a society into dystopia."
FuturismA movement in literature and art to express the dynamic nature of contemporary existence by using the power of technology, the industrial city, and the world of speed.
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A belief in the social value of technological progress and innovation."A central theme of the book is a kind of twisted futurism, where technology hasn't necessarily improved human life."