Physical Descriptions of the Eloi:
“He was a slight creature—perhaps four feet high—clad in a
purple tunic, girdled at the waist with a leather belt. Sandals or buskins—I
could not clearly distinguish which—were on his feet; his legs were bare to the
knees, and his head was bare...
"there was something in these pretty little people that
inspired confidence—a graceful
gentleness, a certain childlike
ease" (28)
"I saw some further peculiarities in their Dresden-china type
of prettiness. Their hair, which was uniformly curly, came to a sharp
end at the
neck and cheek;
there was not
the faintest suggestion
of it on
the face, and
their ears were
singularly minute. The mouths were small, with bright red, rather thin lips, and the little chins
ran to a point. The eyes were large and mild" (28)
"Then one of them suddenly
asked me a
question that showed
him to be
on the intellectual
level of one
of our five-year-old
children— asked me,
in fact, if
I had come
from the sun
in a thunderstorm!
It let loose the judgment
I had suspended
upon their clothes,
their frail light
limbs, and fragile
features. A flow of disappointment rushed across my mind." (29)
"Fruit, by the by, was all their diet. These people of the
remote future were strict vegetarians" (32)
"Then, in a
flash, I perceived
that all had
the same form
of costume, the
same soft hairless
visage, and the
same girlish rotundity
of limb… Now, I
saw the fact
plainly enough. In
costume, and in
all the differences
of texture and
bearing that now mark off the
sexes from each other, these people of
the future were
alike. And the
children seemed to
my eyes to
be but the
miniatures of their
parents. I judged,
then, that the
children of that
time were extremely
precocious, physically at
least, and I
found afterwards abundant verification of my opinion.” (35)
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