Chapter 5
The Time Traveller's hypothesis: 'the gradual widening of the present merely temporary and social difference between the Capitalist and the Labourer.'
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The novel's central political allegory: the bifurcation of humanity into Eloi and Morlocks dramatizes the Victorian capital/labor divide carried to evolutionary catastrophe.
Chapter 7
Revised theory after discovering cannibalism: the Morlocks now farm the Eloi—'mere fatted cattle.' Marx-inflected nightmare of class inversion.
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