Every artificial light-source we’ve yet invented, from the incandescent light-bulb to strobe lighting or the laser, involves generating heat in order to generate light. This entails not just images of heat but images of light: one of the laws of physics is that we cannot generate light without heat. The image I wish to focus on is fire, and representations of fire.
But there are other, even more pervasive images in The Time Machine which are worthy of analysis, and I’d like to consider one such image in particular, as a way of reading the imagery of the novel in its late Victorian context.
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