Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Why does the Time Traveler relate this civilization to communism?
After he had spent the day analyzing this new world, he makes an assumption about it. He compares it to communism, or a style of government in which private property is eliminated. He reasoned, "...that there were no small houses to be seen. Apparently, the single house, and possibly even the household, had vanished."(37) He later goes on to say that there are some palace-like buildings, but nothing like the houses of the English landscape. He even discusses the similarities in the way that they dress. "But everything was so strange...the children seemed to be the miniatures of their parents."(37) Inferring that the children are not independent and neither are the parents, because they all dress alike. Not only that but he articulated that there was a close resemblance of the sexes too. He finishes by saying that, "We see some beginnings (communism) of this even in our own time, and in this future age it was complete."(38) Meaning that, we have seen communism in Europe in the Soviet Union, but nothing to this extent.
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