What do you learn from H.G. Wells ‘The Time Machine’ about society and class?

In the future there is still class division and the time traveller thinks that the Elois have evolved from the upper class and aristocratic society, and the Morlocks have developed from the working class.

The Elois are peaceful creature but weak, and remind the Time traveller of tuberculosis. They are lethargic,‘ slight creatures – perhaps four feet high’.
They play all day, feast on fruit in great halls, and sleep in large community room to protect themselves from the dark and a possible attack from Morlocks. They are easily tried which may be from the lack of variety in their diet and are childlike and are not interested in intellect. The time traveller suggests that they are less developed because the light fascinates them, which is not unusual in 19th century England. They also do not seem interest in how the time traveller came to be there and wher...