The Time Machine

The Time Traveller explains his ideas about time and offers to show his guests an experiment.

A model machine disappears before the guests, and the Time Traveller shows them his larger machine.

The Time Traveller returns home hurt and exhausted, then begins telling his guests about his journey.

The Time Traveller races into the future and arrives near a huge white statue, where he meets some small people.

The friendly people welcome the Time Traveller with flowers and fruit, but their simple minds surprise him.

The Time Traveller explores the beautiful landscape and develops a theory about why its people are weak.

The Time Machine disappears, and tracks lead the Time Traveller to the locked bronze doors beneath the White Sphinx.

The Time Traveller befriends Weena and discovers that another kind of human lives underground.

The Time Traveller climbs down a well to investigate the Morlocks and struggles to escape their dark world.

The Time Traveller understands the danger facing the Eloi and sets out with Weena to find weapons and safety.

Inside the ruined Palace of Green Porcelain, the Time Traveller finds a metal weapon, matches, and material for fire.

A fire spreads through the forest as the Time Traveller fights the Morlocks and searches for Weena.

The Time Traveller finds his machine behind the open bronze doors, but the Morlocks have prepared a trap.

Travelling much further into the future, the Time Traveller sees giant crabs and a cold world beneath a red sun.

The Time Traveller returns to his laboratory and explains how he reached the dinner table that evening.

The guests question the story, and the narrator returns the next day to see the Time Traveller leave on another journey.

The narrator wonders where his friend has gone and finds comfort in the flowers brought back from the future.