For many years, renowned novelist HG Wells has captivated the minds and imaginations of readers with his many best-selling books; The Invisible Man, The Island of Doctor Moreau and The War of the Worlds. These selections are not Wells' most controversial novel, however. The Time Machine, written in 1895, is Wells' most discussed work. In this novel you see many different themes and various sides, one of these main themes is the separation of classes. While the Morlocks and the Eloi, in HG Wells' novel; The Time Machine plays an extremely important role in distinguishing the future for this book, one has reason to believe that there is a larger underlying meaning to these two types of civilizations. Indeed, this underlying meaning is believed to refer to Wells' personal life during the Victorian period, where the working and upper classes were extremely different from each other and where Wells, being part of the middle class, felt and experienced first person; the clash of these two divisions in Victorian society. To understand the meaning between the lines of Wells' novel The Time Machine, it is necessary to understand the context of Victorian society and the significance of social classes at this time. During the Victorian period, Queen Victoria took over the reign of England and is associated with Britain's great era of industrial expansion, economic progress and, above all, empire (Allingham, 2002). These advances have caused great healing for the British people. Victorian society, in which HG Wells was born and raised, was now based on the classification of one's status within society. Within British society there were three main classes; bottom,...... center of sheet......es, showing the extreme differences and conflict their separation caused during the Victorian era. Works Cited Allingham, Philip V. "Charles Dickens: An Overview." The Victorian Web: An Overview. University Scholars Program, April 22, 2002. Web. March 28, 2011..Chakma, Bishal. "Victorians of History." family-ancestry.co.uk. 08 May 2008. Web. 28 March 2011. "NovelGuide: The Time Machine: Theme Analysis." Novelguide: Free study guides, free book summaries, free book notes, and more. 1991. Network. March 28, 2011. Wells, H.G., and Stephen Arata. The Time Machine: An Invention: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism. 1st ed. New York: W. W. Norton, 2009. Print.