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The openings of the Time Machine and Lord of the Flies seem like a description of paradise. In what ways does this turn out to be deceptive?

The Time Machine is about the possibility of time travelling. In the story, one man succeeds in building a fully working time machine, and he uses it to travel into the future. The story was written during the Victorian times (1895), by H.G. Wells.
Lord of the Flies involves a group of boys who crash land on an island, in the middle of nowhere. It begins as paradise, but as the story goes on it turns out differently to what they expected. William Golding wrote the story, during the Cold War era. It was written after the Second World War. The times, in which wells and Golding lived in, reflected on what was written in each of their stories.

Wells lived in a time of peace and stability, as there hadn’t been a major war for 30 years, which was in 1865. This had an impact on what Wells wrote about in his story. There......

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