The Time Machine: personer, tidslinje og steder

The Time Traveller argues that time is a fourth dimension and claims experimental proof of travel through it.

A small machine disappears when the Psychologist presses its lever, and the Time Traveller reveals a larger machine.

The Time Traveller arrives dirty and injured, eats dinner, and asks his skeptical guests to hear his story.

The traveller speeds through changing days and seasons before stopping in an unfamiliar garden during a hailstorm.

Small, friendly people welcome the traveller with flowers and fruit, but their simple questions disappoint him.

The traveller explores ruins and communal buildings, proposing an explanation of human decline that he explicitly calls mistaken.

The traveller discovers his machine is missing and finds signs suggesting it is inside the sphinx’s pedestal.

The traveler rescues Weena and discovers that the surface dwellers share their world with humans living underground.

The narrator descends into the Morlocks’ world, finds machinery and meat, and escapes their attacks without any matches.

The Time Traveller leads Weena toward the Palace of Green Porcelain and concludes that the Morlocks eat the Eloi.

Inside the ruined museum, the narrator finds an iron bar, working matches, and camphor.

Morlocks attack in the woods, a forest fire spreads, and Weena disappears.

The narrator enters the sphinx’s open pedestal, fights the Morlocks, and escapes on his recovered machine.

The traveller moves farther into the future, encountering giant crab-like creatures and an almost lifeless, freezing earth.

The Time Traveller reverses through time and returns to his laboratory, where familiar surroundings make him question his experience.

The Time Traveller prepares another journey, disappears with his machine, and has not returned after three years.

The narrator imagines possible destinations for the absent traveller and finds comfort in two dried flowers.