Jules Verne's 20, 000 Leagues Under The Sea

After settling the close debate as to where the American’s wished to build their canal and purchasing the area under the 1903 Hay-Herran treaty, the U.S. needed only permission to unearth the ground.  Colombia wasn’t too fond of the idea and thus rejected all of America’s efforts.  Negotiations with the country went quite poorly as well. Arthur Beaupré was chose to communicate with Colombia but negotiations continued to go poorly as, “he was frequently blunt, even dictatorial, in his

In the novel, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne, the author develops a charming protagonist named professor Arronax. He and his faithful servant Conseil were originally aboard the Abraham Lincoln in search of a cetacean that had been destroying boats worldwide. They were on the boat a few months when the finally found this “cetacean” then it hit the Abraham Lincoln sending Conseil, Professor Aronnax, and his friend Ned Land overboard. They were soon rescued by a submarine. The submarine turned out to be the cetacean that had been destroying ships. They soon met Captain Nemo, a man who wanted to cut himself off from society so he built a submarine that

When your life revolves around the sea as ours does, you hear stories. Stories of deep sea monsters, mermaids, giant squids right out of a Moby Dick novel, are just some of the tales we’ve heard. Most stories about mysterious creatures we shrug off as ‘not bloody likely’, but others enter the realm of real possibility.

“20,000 leagues under the sea”, by Jules Verne, is about how Professor aronnax goes on a sea journey to find a giant sea monster. In their journey Professor Aronnax and his friends find that the sea monster is actually a giant steel submarine. Professor Aronnax and his friends are held hostage by Captain Nemo in the Nautilus. Nemo decides to let them explore the depths of the sea with him, and his crew. Aronnax discovers Nemo is crazy, and finds a way to escape, but once the escape, the Nautilus is unseen. The theme of 20,00 leagues under the sea is, exploration is good, but it has downsides. The theme is developed through the setting, the conflicts, and the resolution.

In “Exploring the Titanic” by Robert D. Ballard, bad planning and bad luck caused many people to die on the Titanic, because people did not know what to do and everything was happening so fast. In the story, “Sensing trouble, Ruth’s mother looked out of the door of their second class cabin and asked a steward what had happened. He told her that nothing was the matte, so Mrs. Becker went back to bed.” That shows that the people who worked there, didn’t tell any of their passengers so when trouble came where they had to evacuate, all the passengers didn’t know what to do. Also another example is “Poking her head out of the cabin, she found a steward and asked what the matter was. “Put on your things and come at once” said the steward. “Do we

As human beings everyone suffers but we all suffer differently. Some suffer emotionally, some suffer physically, some suffer mentally. And through suffering and pain we gain different experiences, we either overcome pain and sorrows or we break down waste our lives. Edwidge Danticat present the theme of suffering in each of her stories. In all the stories the characters have to go through pain, but they all over come it in different ways. This is true in real life too. in the children of the sea that characters suffer but the outcome is that, in 1937 the outcome is inner peace, and My outcome is discovering myself.

It promptly fitted a frigate, the Abraham Lincoln, to destroy the beast, and invited Pierre to join them, for his science capabilities. For many months they searched, but could not find this Narwhale anywhere. When they found it, it attacked the ship, disabling it, and sending M. Aronnax, Ned Land (a harpooner) and Conseil (servant of Pierre) overboard. Soon, the three were guests in the Narwhale, now known to be a ship, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo. During the stay aboard the Nautilus, Pierre Conseil and Ned encounter and discover many wonderful and interesting facts from the sea. Often, they would accompany the captain in an under water expedition. Several of these excursions were to hunt, and others were simply to explore a submarine region. One of the times when the purpose was just to investigate an underwater region, Captain Nemo and M. Aronnax explored the lost city of Atlantis. On a separate occasion, Pierre found that there was a supply of coal underwater that the Nautilus used as a source of fuel. In addition to underwater excursions, the Nautilus itself was on a round the world journey, which accounted for the most exiting time of the book. This was when Captain Nemo was attempting to access the South Pole. That meant passing the Great Ice Barrier, and surviving with very little air. During this rather long voyage, the submarine gets wedged between two icebergs,

Much like Aronnax, “a oceanic scientist”, Conseil is “intelligent and well educated” “classification-obsessed” person and in most ways a servant to Aronnax (Cain 1, Barrow 2032, Drabble 5).  Ned Land, “the forty year old harpooner,” on the other hand “is a man of action, not of scientific analysis, and he is used to the sea’s surface, not its depth” (Barrow 2032). Not being accustomed to the ocean 's depths, but rather it’s surface provides great conflict for Land having been a master hunter of the sea on a boat and not in a submarine.  Due to their different professions, their automatic biased opinions shape their actions; Aronnax, Conseil, and Ned Land thus takes different stances when it comes to life on the Nautilus, down to the smallest of things like the food to what Captain Nemo is really like.

First, imagery is presented through vivid descriptions of the Nautilus, underwater scenery and biota, and the sunken city of Atlantis. Captain Nemo’s submarine, the Nautilus, is described in great detail throughout the book. For example, a bookcase is detailed in this quote, “Tall, black-rosewood bookcases, inlaid with copperwork,

     The ocean swells around you like a dust devil in a sandbox. Salt water fills your nostrils. The ship that deemed this fate upon you sails into the distance. You wonder, how am I going to get out of this one? Suddenly, a large metal object plants itself beneath your feet. A porthole opens and men carry you inside the belly of the large iron beast floating nether you. What’s going to happen now? In Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, this is exactly what main characters M. Aronmax, his servant Conseil, and Ned Land the harpooner, were thinking. After a hefty six-hour wait of being locked in a dark cell, the door opens.

One of the major conflicts in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne was among the trio of prisoners on-board the Nautilus and the captain, Nemo. Hoping to remain undiscovered, Nemo was not able to release the three in fear that they would reveal the secret of his existence and that of the Nautilus claiming that “Whoever enters my vessel never leaves it again.” At first, unlike Ned Land, their vexed companion, Aronnax and Conseil were fascinated with the wonders they have discovered during their underwater expedition for although in custody, they were given much freedom to wander the ship and do as they please. However, they have eventually grown wary of their warden as he began to reveal his savage and barbaric nature, such as

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Jules Verne was a 19th century French writer. Born in February 8th, 1828 in the city of Nantes, France. Jules became interested with the theatre, and that’s when he began writing plays, dramas and operas. Twenty thousand leagues under the sea was first published in French in 1870. In the classic science fiction novel, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, Jules Verne uses revenge, man versus nature and liberty to portray the central topic.

The ocean in medieval times was a thing of great mystery to the ordinary medieval peasant. However to the explorers, the church and the educated the sea was a dangerous place. The ocean began to fascinate people in the time of the early Greeks. The Titans ruled the earth in the beginning, and Oceanus, son of Uranus and Gaea was one of them.