Question

In H. G. Wells's The Time Machine, what basic assumption about life in the future does the Time Traveller make when he arrives among the Eloi?

that the future does not really exist

that the present cannot learn another from the future

that the future must somehow be an improvement on the present

that the future holds untold horrors

Answer 1

In H. G. Wells's The Time Machine, the basic assumption about life in the future which the Time Traveller makes when he arrives among the Eloi is:

c. that the future must somehow be an improvement on the present

The Time Traveller compares the present and future, notices the present dilemma, and concludes the possible improvement that will happen in the future.