| Weena | |
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 Photo of actress Yvette Mimieux who portrayed Weena in the 1960 film. | |
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Real Name |
Weena |
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First Appearance |
The New Review, vol. 12, no. 68 (Jan. 1895) |
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Original Publisher |
William Heinemann |
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Created by |
H. G. Wells |
Origin[]
Weena is a female member of the Eloi race in the year 802,701 A.D. The Eloi are described as anatomically smaller than modern humans (standing roughly four feet tall), with shoulder-length curly hair, pointed chins, large eyes, small ears, small mouths with bright red thin lips, and sub-human intelligence. Their bodies are beautiful in appearance but surprisingly feeble. They do not perform much work, except to feed, play, and mate, and are characterized by apathy.They live on a diet of fruits and vegetables, which may be cultivated for them by the Morlocks. Their language is described as "very sweet and liquid." The Eloi seem to dread only darkness and always sleep in droves within their "palaces". This is later revealed to be because the Morlocks ascend to harvest them when darkness falls.
Weena encounters the Time Traveler in the year 802,701 A.D. He rescues her from drowning in a "shallow", while the other Eloi do nothing to help. The next day, she presents him a garland of flowers, which she has made especially for him. He takes her on his expedition and decides to take her to his own time, the Victorian Era, but Weena faints and is lost in a fire when he battles the Morlocks to retrieve his time machine. He returns to his own time with two strange white flowers, which Weena had put into his pocket. The next day he departed again for another time travel, promising to be back in half an hour, but he never returned.
Public Domain Appearances[]
All published appearances of Weena from before January 1, 1930 are public domain in the US.
Some notable appearances are listed below:
Public Domain Literary Appearances[]
- The Time Machine (1895)