Book Review The Time Machine 1. Relevance of the character Filiby (p.21 - 29) Filiby is an argumentative person with red hair. He doesn’t seem to accept anything without reasonable ground for it. He doesn’t have the intellectual level as the Time Traveller, but he tries to contradict him or comments him to show that he also knows that. As he is totally inferior to the Time Traveller in this discussion he became very fast …showed first 75 words of 1013 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1013 total…minimization of his time machine and asks the Psychologist to do the experiment for him in order to prove that there is no trick. The Time Traveller enjoys the silent and other people’s uncertainty shortly before he starts his experiment. The invention of a time machine means a lot for the Time Traveller. The reader can see his seriousness about this machine when he states that he was never more serious in his life.