The Life and Work of H. G. Wells
Influence Thomas Huxley, a famous biologist and H.G. Wells' teacher, once said that "We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it" (Zaadz). In other words, we all have the duty to leave the world a better place by leaving our influence on others. At some point of our lives, we've all had someone or something close to us that has left their influence on us and H. G. Wells is no different. His novella, The Time Machine, was inspired by the various different traits of Wells' family and social life. The book in turn influenced many others in the world. The society and his surroundings greatly influenced H.G. Wells in The Time Machine, which in turn influenced other human beings. The Time Machine, although a science fiction, had many prospects that were real, that were existent in the life of H.G. Wells. H.G. Wells had many events and people around him whose influences were seen in The Time Machine. The first thing that a person gets inspired by is their loved ones, and so did H.G. Wells. His family background, referring to his mother and father, and his own upbringing is seen clearly in the main characters of the book. H. G. Wells was born in a lower-middle class family and a class-ridden society in 1966. During that time, the first thing that would be settled between a newly employed maid servant and her mistress is what names is the servant liable to answer to. The employed servant couldn't answer unless the name was appropriate for the position she was hired for; for example, a menial had to answer to menial names. Anthony West explains that his "father always had a tin ear in this region, and his more refined admirers often complained of the tiny flaw that allowed him to give his females such awful names --