# The Time Machine — Character guide

> Key figures in The Time Machine by H. G. Wells.

- [The Time Traveller](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_time_machine_se/characters/the_time_traveller.md): He is the host of a dinner party of skeptical professional men — Editor, Medical Man, Psychologist, Filby — who humor his paradoxes about a fourth dimension until he arrives at his own table late, coat dusty, appetite of
- [Weena](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_time_machine_se/characters/weena.md): She attaches herself to the Time Traveller among the Eloi, becoming his companion and the one creature in the future who shows him uncomplicated affection. Her terror of the dark and of what lives below sharpens his own 
- [The Morlocks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_time_machine_se/characters/the_morlocks.md): They live beneath the ground the Eloi walk on, and the Time Traveller's first descent into their world turns curiosity into a scramble for survival — clinging hands, a skull that rings under his head-butt, matches that w
- [Filby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_time_machine_se/characters/filby.md): Filby is the Time Traveller's sharpest foil at the table, the man who interrupts the fourth-dimension lecture with 'There I object' and 'Don't follow you,' and who finally declares that you can show black is white by arg
- [Mr. ⸻](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_time_machine_se/characters/mr_blank.md): An unnamed dinner guest who questions the Time Traveller's theories.
- [Hillyer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_time_machine_se/characters/hillyer.md): Another dinner guest who listens to the Time Traveller's story.
- [Mrs. Watchett](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_time_machine_se/characters/mrs_watchett.md): The Time Traveller's housekeeper who witnesses his departure.
- [The Eloi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_time_machine_se/characters/the_eloi.md): They are the future's inheritors on the surface — beautiful, idle, and incurious, feeding on fruit and living in great ruined palaces they did not build. Their childlike gentleness is also a flaw: they have no memory, no

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