# The Time Machine — Character guide

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

- [The Time Traveller](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_time_machine_se/characters/the_time_traveller.md): The protagonist and inventor of the time machine who travels to the year 802701.
- [Weena](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_time_machine_se/characters/weena.md): A gentle Eloi woman who befriends the Time Traveller and shows him affection.
- [The Morlocks](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_time_machine_se/characters/the_morlocks.md): Pale, subterranean creatures who prey on the Eloi and represent the future working class.
- [Filby](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_time_machine_se/characters/filby.md): A skeptical friend of the Time Traveller who argues with him at dinner parties.
- [Mr. ⸻](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_time_machine_se/characters/mr_blank.md): An unnamed dinner guest who questions the Time Traveller's theories.
- [Hillyer](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_time_machine_se/characters/hillyer.md): Another dinner guest who listens to the Time Traveller's story.
- [Mrs. Watchett](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_time_machine_se/characters/mrs_watchett.md): The Time Traveller's housekeeper who witnesses his departure.
- [The Eloi](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_time_machine_se/characters/the_eloi.md): Childlike, peaceful surface-dwellers of the future who are preyed upon by Morlocks.

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