Who Said it?
Twenty Thousand Leagues
Twenty Thousand Leagues
“Yes, sir, I love it! The sea is everything. It covers seven-tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and life-giving. It is an immense desert place where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides."
Who is Captain Nemo?
"And I have before me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers—shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle—to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man."
Who is the narrator?
“So long as visible or audible pain turns you sick, so long as your own pain drives you, so long as pain underlies your propositions about sin, so long, I tell you, you are an animal, thinking a little less obscurely than an animal feels.”
Who is Dr. Moreau?
This is the profession of Ned Land, one of the main characters on the Nautilus.
What is a whaler?
The Eloi, the peaceful beings the Time Traveller encounters, live above ground, while these creatures live below and are more sinister.
Who are the Morlocks?
“By the pluck!” he fumed. “Here are people as badly off as the Scotch for hospitality. They are gentle as cannibals. And I shouldn’t be surprised if they were man-eaters. But I’ll be right there when they start to swallow me.”
Who is Ned Land?
"So, as I see it, the Upper-world man had drifted towards his feeble prettiness, and the Under-world to mere mechanical industry."
Who is the Time Traveller?
“There’s a third with a whip now ... so you’d better mind!”
Who is Montgomery?
Captain Nemo’s Nautilus travels to these depths in the ocean, which gives the novel its title.
What are 20,000 leagues (or about 60,000 miles)?
Dr. Moreau, the scientist on the island, is known for conducting these controversial and inhumane experiments.
What is vivisection?
We were growing fast to our shell like snails, and I swear it must be easy to lead a snail’s existence. Thus, our undersea life began to seem natural to us, and we no longer thought of the days we used to spend on land.
Who is Professor Aronnax?
"Or did he go forward, into one of the nearer ages, in which men are still men, but with the riddles of our own time answered and its wearisome problems solved? Into the manhood of the race: for I, for my own part, cannot think that these latter days of weak experiment, fragmentary theory, and mutual discord are indeed man’s culminating time!"
Who is the narrator?
"A strange persuasion came upon me that, save for the grossness of the line, the grotesqueness of the forms, I had here before me the whole balance of human life in miniature, the whole interplay of instinct, reason, and fate, in its simplest form."
Who is Prendick?
The Nautilus is named after this type of sea creature, which also has a spiral shape.
What is a nautilus shell?
The Time Traveller discovers the Morlocks adapted to life underground by engaging in this practice.
What is cannibalism?
“There is the disadvantage of not knowing all languages ... or the disadvantage of not having one universal language.”
Who is Conseil?
"But gradually the truth dawned on me: that Man had not remained one species, but had differentiated into two distinct animals: that my graceful children of the Upper-world were not the sole descendants of our generation, but that this bleached, obscene, nocturnal Thing, which had flashed before me, was also heir to all the ages."
Who is the Time Traveller?
“For every one the want that is bad ... What you will want, we do not know. We shall know. Some want to follow things that move, to watch and slink and wait and spring, to kill and bite, deep and rich, sucking the blood…It is bad. ‘Not to chase other Men; that is the Law. Are we not Men?’”
Who is the Sayer of the Law?
This is the sea creature that attacks the Nautilus during their journey.
What is a giant squid?
Dr. Moreau justifies his experiments by claiming to have a scientific goal of advancing this.
What is human evolution or progress?
“What a beautiful situation to be in! ... To overrun regions where man has never trod, depths to which even dead or inanimate matter may never more descend!"
Who is Professor Aronnax?
“Is not that rather a large thing to expect us to begin upon?”
Who is Filby?
“’We have no Master, no Whips, no House of Pain any more. There is an end. We love the Law, and will keep it; but there is no pain, no Master, no Whips forever again.’ So they say.”
Who is the Dog Man?
This is the country where Professor Aronnax, Ned Land, and Conseil are captured by Captain Nemo and taken aboard the Nautilus.
What is France?
After encountering the Eloi, the Time Traveller then travels to this year in the distant future.
What is the year 802,701?