On pages 57-58, Wells develops his ideas about the situation between the Morlocks and Eloi further than in earlier parts of the book. It explains the struggle between the Morlocks and the Eloi, including altered ideas about the hierarchy of civilization - how the human race evolved into two different species. The Time Traveler comes to the conclusion that the Morlocks are similar to the working class and the Eloi to the upper class. -class of his time. It began when the Morlocks were pushed underground for so long that they evolved to find "the daylight surface intolerable", proving that they are certainly the more oppressed species of the two. The Eloi were spoiled, staying on the surface and sitting idle all day doing nothing productive, while the Morlocks maintained the machines and provided food, clothing and infrastructure for the Eloi. However, at night, the Eloi were extremely frightened because it was the time when the Morlocks banded together to try to overthrow the ruling class by eating the Eloi. The time traveler's upper-class Victorian distaste for ...