In "The Time Machine," H.G. Wells depicts the Eloi, who are the future of the aristocracy, as having grown ignorant from their life of ease. Wells is making a statement about the social classes in Britain in the late 19th century through the Morlocks and the Eloi.
The aristocracy have turned into lazy, unemotional individuals with no intellectual curiosity, they do not explore their environment, they have no need for work. They lack the understanding about their own survival, they are dependent like little children.
The Eloi live in simplicity, with no advanced technology. Below, the Morlocks have working machines and an intertwined mechanism that powers the system.
The Eloi are presented as being allowed to survive because the Morlocks, who represent the working class of the future who were forced underground and developed characteristics that make them appear ape-like, are intelligent, innovative and manage to create an environment in which the Eloi thrive.
The Eloi don't have to work for their food, neither do they hunt or grow food. The food is provided through the intervention of the Morlocks. There is a suggestion in the book, that all the domestic animals are gone due to previous generations of Morlocks having eaten them all to extinction. Once this food source was exhausted, the Morlocks started to look to the Eloi for their meat source.
The Eloi do not fight, they don't resist capture. It is clear in the novel that Wells pictures the future in a very grim way.
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