Assessment of Claims in Well’s Novel
Eloi and Morlock do not value their history given the extremely untidy and unkempt conditions of the displayed artifacts. The Time Traveller explores the Green Porcelain museum. He observes, “I went through gallery after gallery, dusty, silent, often ruinous, the exhibits sometimes mere heaps of rust and lignite, sometimes fresher” (112). In essence, most museums tend to have a neat arrangement of paintings from the periods of states’ revival, ceramics, and precious stones from primitive ways of life, as well as many other items from the past. It is through the said objects that people from contemporary societies get to familiarize with their historical facts. However, as brought out in the first quote, the exhibits in the museum are shown to be in a plight of utmost degeneration. Therefore, in the first instance, this shows that many people do not go to view the displayed expositions. On the other hand, the said state of the artifacts also indicates that the people in charge do not pay the required attention and not provide care to the exhibits. Hence, the obvious lack of attention to the mentioned museum ultimately divulges the level of discrepancy between the people and interest to the museum artefacts. In other words, the unifying factor of the stated instances tends to be the disregard, which the Eloi and Morlock communities portray towards their history. Going by Key two, “gallery after gallery”, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) also tends to have various divisions of the exhibited collections. Here, as the museum in question has its artefacts arranged in galleries, LACMA’s assorted items also feature according to their many divisions. Moreover, the said objects also happen to be proliferated in the other buildings of the museum. Going by key one, “exhibits… rust and lignite”, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art begs to differ. This is because LACMA’s exhibits and extensive varieties of collections tends to be neat, admirable, and presentable; thereby, accounting for the many visitors to the museum. This is unlike the Green Porcelain museum whose most exhibits lay in piles of rust and coal.
The quote “the exhibits sometimes mere heaps of rust and lignite, sometimes fresher” spotlights the aspect of regression. Fundamentally, the said point brings out the factor of regression since the rusting exhibits tend to be decomposing. Therefore, this shows the aspect of regression whereby things take the form of less developed states. In most places with ancient objects ,such as museums and national archives in different states, the aim is usually to educate individuals in modern societies about the ancient times. This is enhanced through frequent upkeep of the exhibited artifacts in order to maintain them in a presentable state. Nevertheless, the expositions brought out in the first quote are extremely undesirable. Furthermore, the time traveler also depicts the postulates objects as being completely debased. Consequently, the process involved in producing the said rust and traces of lignite ends up deforming those objects in the museum. In other words, this tends to regress the displayed artifacts to earlier stages of development back to the items’ raw materials. In addition, the discussed degeneration could also lead to the complete loss of the displayed items in the long-run. At this point, this occurs because of the advanced phases of regression, which causes total eradication of existing materials. Hence, all of this represent regression.
