Chapter 5
The Capitalist/Labourer hypothesis—debated as either socialist critique or social-Darwinist warning.
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Critics have long debated the novel's politics: Marxist allegory or eugenic anxiety, anti-capitalist or reactionary, and the uncomfortable racial coding of pale subterranean Morlocks versus delicate surface Eloi.
Chapter 7
The cannibalism revelation; scholars debate whether the Morlocks are sympathetic exploited proletarians or monstrous embodiments of bourgeois fear of the working class.
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The Time Traveller's reflection that human intelligence required hardship—read by some as proto-eugenic, by others as critique of bourgeois ease.
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