In the many worlds explored, humans have interacted with numerous creatures of all shapes and sizes. Those other beings have many similarities to humans and many differences, however all creatures, such as Gethenians, Eloi, Morlocks, and androids, seem to lack a fundamental aspect of human nature. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, Wells’ The Time Machine, and Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? illustrate how the desire for progress is a human quality because all the human characters have a yearning to change the world around them that their other being counterparts lack. In The Left Hand of Darkness, the Gethenians refusal to advance into a different society results in the major conflict of the…show more content… As Genly Ai travels slowly down the road, he remarks that “Gethenians could make their vehicles go faster, but they do not. […] Terrans tend to feel they’ve got to get ahead, make progress. The people of Winter, who always live in the Year One, feel that progress is less important than presence” (Le Guin 50). By having Year One cycle over and over again, nothing can evolve over time in the world of Winter. Because Gethenians put so much value on the present, everything stays the same, and so change is unnecessary. The people of Winter are stuck in hibernation, they never progress and cannot awaken because winter is perpetual and time never changes. In contrast, Genly Ai (a man from Earth) craves progress. Genly has embarked on his mission to bring change to the universe by incorporating Gethen into humankind (Ekumen); his entire life is devoted to advancing the universe. He risks his own survival for the sake of progress, and his impatience with Gethen is a testament…show more content… As the Time Traveller gazes upon the Over-world, he notices that “[v]ery pleasant was their day, as pleasant as the day of the cattle in the field. Like the cattle, they knew of no enemies and provided against no needs. And their end was the same” (Wells 96). The Time Traveller notices how the Eloi simply want to be comfortable in the present. The Time Traveller links the Eloi and cattle, and this comparison further asserts that the Eloi are thoroughly different from humans. The Eloi do not work for progress or advancement; they do not work at all. They are content with themselves and their world, and this is quite contrary to human values. The Time Traveller created the Time Machine to better understand his world and possibly improve it. The Time Traveller’s friends are very intrigued by the time machine, because they also want to learn and to progress humankind. Once the Time Traveller is in the future, he could be merry and frolic in the fields with the Eloi, but he instead chooses to suffer and get his time machine back, so that he could continue to learn and improve the world. Once the Time Traveller gets the Time Machine back from the Morlocks, he notices the machine’s