Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea Essay

   Throughout her novel, The Awakening, Kate Chopin uses symbolism and imagery to portray the main character's emergence into a state of spiritual awareness. The image that appears the most throughout the novel is that of the sea. “Chopin uses the sea to symbolize freedom, freedom from others and freedom to be one's self” (Martin 58). The protagonist, Edna Pontellier, wants that freedom, and with images of the sea, Chopin shows Edna's awakening desire to be free and her ultimate achievement of that freedom.

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,

The novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman was an engrossing sci-fi novel. The story, largely told through flashbacks into the protagonist’s past, set in his early childhood, at the age of seven years old when he met an eccentric girl named Lettie Hempstock. His flashbacks are of his and Lettie’s adventures and when everything went awry on their lane.

     Many different symbols were utilized in Kate Chopin's The Awakening to illustrate the underlying themes and internal conflict of the characters.  One constant and re-emerging symbol is the sea.

“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.

Born on February 8, 1828, Jules Verne had spent most of his child hood in the small, seafaring town of Nantes, France. He was the son of a wealthy provincial lawyer, Pierre Verne and Sophie Allote de la Fuÿe, a local woman from generations with maritime history and Scottish ancestry. In 1829, the Verne family relocated to Quai Jean-Bart. In the same year, Verne's brother Paul was born. Following his brother would be three more sisters, Anna, Mathilde, and Maria in 1836, 1839, and 1842, chronologically.

When the corporation “Sea World” is mentioned in a sentence the first thing that comes

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

In 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, three men are captured by a captain the forces them on an underwater adventure. Captain Nemo uses his advanced technology and thinking to run away from society. The underwater coal mine and how he used it was very helpful to not have to get in contact with humans. Coal is most thought of as a land resource, and because he can get it underwater he doesn’t have to get it from land. Back in the 1860s the ocean was not a very discovered place, so Nemo could go there without being discovered. Nemo says on page 311, “Thereby making me independant of dry land even for that substance.” Going on land to get coal means you probably would see people and have to interact with others. Another good thing

Contained in the text of Moby Dick, Herman Melville uses many widely cultural symbols, stories and actions to tell the tale of a whaling ship bent on the desires of its captains abhorrence for a real, and also symbolic, creature in the form of an albino sperm whale named Moby Dick. The time is 1851 and civil unrest is looming just over the horizon: slavery is the main point of interest in American politics, the last major novel released was The Scarlet Letter, Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th president following the untimely death of then president Zachary Taylor; the Fugitive Slave Act legally mandates all runaway slaves to be returned to their owners (regardless of what state in the union they were found); and religion is a driving

Do you think that you could see yourself as a character in a novel? A short story? An edition that wins many awards? Not very many people can, but the authors who wrote the many books read this year have had the ability to immense you so deep into their thoughts on paper you feel as if you are there. Living out all of the words like film on a screen, seeing it all play out live. There is no better feeling than reading a novel that does this for you, and when you find it you physically can not stop reading. This essay will show you how the novels read do this for the reader. Black Helicopters by Blythe Woolston gets you inside the head of this teenage girl. Using flashbacks and flashforwards she does a marvelous job making you love this girl but once you realize what her final plan is, it changes everything. Also in The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey, the second book in a trilogy, the middle of the action, where more details are explained and you start to see the bigger picture. The book is told is many perspectives so you get to see what each character is thinking at different times. It just makes you see how others think and is nice to see in their heads.

Characters have a way of becoming real people with ideals, feelings, raw emotions and personality traits that anyone can connect with in their own unique way.  An adventure such as deep sea exploring is a chance few in the world get; being able to live it through Jules Verne’s book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, readers are able to escape from the world around them and dive deep into an underwater world of great proportions. Due to detailed accounts of mesmerizing and dangerous creatures that are thousands of leagues under the sea, as well as events that conflict with human morals, the reader is able to see what Pierre Arronax saw, be consumed by fascination like Conseil was, and feel imprisonment like Ned Land felt. Throughout the

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

HOOK. In Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Ishmael blindly signs up for a whaling expedition with the monomaniacal Captain Ahab. The reader is able to experience Ahab’s farcical obsession through Ishmael’s stable point of view from the beginning of the journey to the tragic fate of the Pequod. Melville writes Moby Dick in manner where Ishmael and Ahab’s personalities differ, yet compliment one another. Ishmael’s reflective, equanimous, and detached perspective heavily contrasts with Ahab’s reactive, erratic, and obsessive personality, making them complementary characters. While Ishmael provides a stable lens into the life aboard the ship, Ahab’s fiery temperament is what progresses the narrative.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a novel by Herman Melville considered an outstanding work of Romanticism and the American Renaissance. Ishmael narrates the monomaniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, a white whale which on a previous voyage destroyed Ahab's ship and severed his leg at the knee. Although the novel was a commercial failure and out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891, its reputation as a Great American Novel grew during the twentieth century. William Faulkner confessed he wished he had written it himself, and D. H. Lawrence called it "one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world", and "the greatest book of the sea ever written". "Call me Ishmael" is one of world