Friday, October 10, 2008

Essay outline!

So here is the main idea of what i am going to be writing for my isu outline, i have a feeling some of my quotes are going to change though. :D

"The Time Machine" ISU Essay Outline
Thesis: As technology advances throughout time, it is not necessarily an aid to the human kind, but brings a disadvantage onto the human race. Having everything done for us and making life too easy creates no will power and creativity like the world of today, making the human race lazy, eventually reversing the effects of evaluation, returning our old ancestors characteristics.

Reason: As the technology advances, having everything given to the humans, turns their lifestyle and personality into non-caring, lazy, and short attention spanned race.

Example: As the Time Traveler arrives to the future, the Eloi ( upper world humans) rush him into a large dining room for a feast. As they feast upon fruit, The Time Traveler must learn the language of the people. As he starts to learn, the Eloi’s attention span shortens, and he can only learn in short spans of time.
" At first my efforts met with a stare of surprise or inextinguishable laughter, but presently a fair-haired little creature seemed to grasp my intention an repeated a name. They had to chatter and explain the business at great length to each other, and my first attempts to make the exquisite little sounds of their language caused an immense amount of amusement. However, I felt like a schoolmaster amidst children, and persisted, and presently I had a score of noun substantives at least at my command; and then I got to demonstrative pronouns, and even the verb " to eat." But it was slow work, and the little people soon tired and wanted to get away from my interrogations, so I determined, rather of necessity, to let them give their lessons in little doses when they felt inclined. And very little doses I found they were before long, for I never met people more indolent or more easily fatigued."

Example: Weena (an Eloi from the future) while bathing in a creek starts to drown, none of the others try and help her or pay any attention to her cries of help. The style of life that they have learnt to follow does not concern others, and have no attachment to others.
"It happened that as I was watching some of the little people bathing in a shallow, one of them was seized with a cramp, and began drifting downstream. The main current ran rather swiftly, but not too strongly for even a moderate swimmer. It will give you an idea, therefore, of the strange deficiency in these creatures, when I tell you that none made the slightest attempt to rescue the weakly crying little thing which was drowning before their eyes. When I realized this, I hurriedly slipped off my clothes, and wading in at a point lower down, I caught the mite and drew her safe to land.’

Reason: If everything is given to you and done already, is there a point in learning a more difficult language, or have to interact with as many people. Because everything is already done for them, they do not find the need for personal skills.

Example: As the time traveler starts to learn the upper landers language, he realizes that it is ver simple, not containing structured sentences, being very easy, much like a caveman might speak.
"I made what progress I could in the language, and, in addition, I pushed my explorations here and there. Either I missed some subtle point, or their language was excessively simple-almost exclusively composed of concrete substantives and verbs. There seemed to be a few, if any, abstract terms, or little use of figurative language. Their sentences were usually simple and two words, and I failed to convey or understand any but the simplest proportions."

Example: As the Morlocks have lived in complete darkness for hundreds of years, they have become a very aggressive species, not used to other contact, form the above world, nor anything else, they have lost all original human social skills.
"I stood in the dark, a hand touched mine, lank fingers came feeling over my face, and I was sensible of a peculiar unpleasant odour. I fancied I heard the breathing of a crowd of those dreadful little beings about me. I felt the box of matches in my hand being gently disengaged, and the other hands behind me plucking at my clothing. The sense of these unseen creatures examining me was indescribably unpleasant."

Reason : All these new ways of living, being forced underground, the new found innocence of the upper world, has turned back the time on the species behavior. Now the human race has inherited many or the characteristics as ancestors from when the world started, as well as animals such like the dinosaurs.

Example: The Morlocks ( from underground) have become servants for the eloi, making them everything, only because of their lack of socialization they have renewed their fun of killing animals for fun just like men used to.
"The upper world people might once have been the favored aristocracy, and the morlocks their mechanical servants; but that had long since passed away. The two species that had resulted from the evolution of man were sliding down towards, or had already arrived at, an altogether new relationship. The Eloi, like the Carlovingian kings, had decayed to a mere beautiful futility. They still possessed the earth on the sufferance, since the Morlocks, subterranean for innumerable generations, had come at last to find the daylit surface intolerable. And the Morlocks made their garments, I inferred, and maintained them in their habitual needs, perhaps through the survival of an old habit of service. They did as a standing horse paws with his foot, or as a man enjoys killing animals in sport, because ancient and departed necessities had impressed it on the organism."

Reason: The Morlocks eat their own species like dinosaurs ate different dinosaurs, these Morlocks eat a different type of human.
"The place, by the by, was very stuffy and oppressive, and the faint halatus of freshly-shed blood was in the air. Some way down the central vista was a little table of white metal, laid with what seemed a meal. The morlocks at any rate were carnivorous!"

1 comment:

komox37 said...

1. Evolution not evaluation
2. A good outline. There is a book on my desk called "Amusing Ourselves to Death". You might want to take a look through it. It might provide a couple of useful secondary quotes.

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