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Isolation and the Loss of Humanity in "The Time Machine"
H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine serves as an iconic starting point in analyzing the psychological implications of time travel. Its protagonist, the Time Traveler, illustrates the harrowing consequences of breaking free from temporal constraints.
Upon traveling forward into an unfathomable future, he witnesses his own world erode into oblivion. The vibrant culture and history he once knew are annihilated, leaving only decaying remnants. More haunting than witnessing the death of a civilization is the realization that he, too, is an outcast—a human being forever disconnected from a future that understands nothing of his past.