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George's Marvellous Medicine. Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake. Diary of a Wimpy Kid BK1. Pride and Prejudice. Daughter of the Deep. Murder Most Unladylike. Aronnax, Conseil and Ned realize that Captain Farragut must have told the world about the submarine when he returned to America. Captain Nemo sends everyone below deck and starts a game of cat and mouse with his adversary.
The three companions hatch a plan to escape and swim to the battleship as soon as it comes a bit closer. Yet before they can put their plan into action, the Nautilus dives and rams the warship from below, causing such damage that the ship starts to sink. A gloomy, silent Captain Nemo watches the sinking ship and all its drowning victims and then returns to his room. Before the door closes behind him, Dr. Aronnax sees him break down sobbing in front of the picture of a woman and two small children.
The Nautilus leaves the site of the battle and starts heading north toward the Arctic seas. Finally, there is land in sight, and the three companions again prepare for escape.
Whereas earlier Dr. Aronnax was slightly reluctant to leave the Nautilus and the sights and beauty of the world under the sea, now he is ready to go; his esteem for the captain is completely gone. A day of waiting ensues.
When the time finally comes, Dr. Aronnax encounters a problem: Captain Nemo has left his room and is playing the organ in the salon, which Dr. Aronnax must cross in order to get to the dinghy. He carefully tiptoes through the room and manages to get to the other side without the captain noticing him. The three men make it into the dinghy and close the door behind them. However, just as Ned, Conseil and Dr. Aronnax are loosening the bolts which fix them to the Nautilus , the submarine gets sucked into a maelstrom — dangerous waters just off the coast off Norway that form a powerful whirlpool from which no ship has ever escaped.
The Nautilus and the still attached dinghy start to go around in an ever faster spiral. Suddenly, the bolts break apart and the little vessel is flung into the center of the whirlpool.
Aronnax hits his head and is knocked unconscious. Miraculously, they all survive, and, when he awakes again, he is in the hut of a fisherman on the Loffoden Isles, together with his two companions.
He has no memory of how they escaped the maelstrom. Aronnax finishes his tale with good wishes for Captain Nemo, hoping that he, too, managed to escape and may continue his life in the oceans and that he will eventually stop hating humankind.
Up until the mystery of the sea monster is lifted, mounting tension characterizes the narrative. After Dr. Aronnax and his companions board the Nautilus , shorter episodes of action and adventure take place, following the conventions typical of an adventure story. Unexpected events, explorations, situations of danger and rescue occur. The story is told solely through Dr.
The story line is interspersed with long and detailed scientific observations of the underwater world and the creatures living in it, as well as the technology that powers the submarine. While these lengthy and almost academic passages may put off some readers, the overall story is riveting, full of tension and bound to draw in even the most reluctant reader.
Jules Verne lived in an era of great technological progress and inventions, and most of the science and technology in his novel already existed in his lifetime, though possibly not quite in the advanced form that he described. The first working submarine is mentioned around It was a leather-clad rowing boat, designed by the Dutch inventor Cornelius Drebbel. It had air tubes that transported fresh air into the boat when underwater.
It was 20 feet [6. It had a rudder as well as an air-supply system and used a foldable sail to move when on the surface. Twenty Thousand Leagues also shows the influence the political climate had on Verne.
Despite the fact that Verne had a clear idea of the story line and characters when he started writing Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, there exist two quite different manuscripts of the novel. Verne finished the first one in and the second — which has become the definitive version — in There are marked differences between the two manuscripts, with characters changed and whole passages altered.
It is believed that Verne introduced many of the changes based on suggestions or some might say interference from his publisher, Pierre-Jules Hetzel. In , the deluxe illustrated edition was published, including more than illustrations. The first English translation appeared in However, the translator, Lewis Page Mercier , introduced many errors, sometimes changing the meaning of the original.
He also cut the text by almost a quarter. Despite its faults, it remained the standard English translation for more than years. Verne was fascinated by the sea and spent a lot of time on boats, where he found inspiration for his novels. He bought himself a yacht and turned it into a floating office, which is where he wrote the first draft of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. As a result, several Scottish landmarks found their way into the novel. For example, the underwater mountain that Captain Nemo and Dr.
It was George Sand who planted the initial idea for the novel, suggesting to Verne that the sea was the one area where his scientific knowledge and imagination had yet been put to use. Both critics and the public agreed that this was the best work Verne had ever written.
The first edition sold out within a week. However, his works deeply influenced popular literature and film. Twenty Thousand Leagues has had several screen adaptations and has also been turned into an animated picture. Probably best-known is the Disney Studios version from , a live-action Technicolor film with James Mason and Kirk Douglas as the main characters.
However, most film adaptations diverged from the book in that they decided to give Captain Nemo a defined nationality — either as a European or Indian — as well as a backstory that would explain his hatred of humanity.
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