20,000 Leagues under the Sea Review

20,000 Leagues under the Sea Review

“An enormous things, a long object, spindle shaped, occasionally phosphorescent, and infinitely larger and more rapid in its movements than a whale.”

This novel has a setting. The story carries its protagonists across the surface of the globe to the South Pole and back, and far down into the depths of the oceans. The Nautilus itself is the true setting of the novel, it is the imaginative device that makes the action of the novel possible. Designed by Captain Nemo, the electrically powered Nautilus is two or three hundred feet long, capable of speeds far greater than surface ships of the day.

Captain Nemo is one of the most fascinating characters in the novel. He’s a builder and engineer of the Nautilus submarine, another fascinating thing, he and his crew speak an unknown language. Professor Pierre Aronnax, assistant professor in Museum of Natural History in Paris, a cunning Frenchman narrating the story. And with the help of his servant, Mousier Counseil. 30 year old servant, “a true, devoted Flemish boy” who accompanied Aronnax in all his travels. And finally, Ned Land, a Canadian harpooner about 40 years old who joined Aronnax and Counseil on The Nautilus in search of the mysterious marine monster threatening the seas.

The basic theme of 20,000 Leagues under the Sea is for people to understand how the unseen part of the world really is. Aronnax takes on the task of identifying and classifying every animal on the planet. Captain Nemo takes his strange submarine into places no man has ever been before, the depths of the ocean.

Many life and death experiences made Ned Land feel uneasy about his new life aboard the Nautilus. He was determined to escape. Captain Nemo took them to many exquisite places. They experienced hunting and searching for pearls, VigLo Bay, a hollowed out volcano, and the underwater city of Atlantis. Captain Nemo took them to the