The Character of No-one in Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Essay

The Character of No-one in Twenty-Thousand Leagues infra the Sea Alan Quatermain, posing hunched over and delirious from opium withdrawal, has been taken aboard a huge submersible vessel. The aging adventurer says, P-please. I feel so sick. occupy my medicine. A cold voice answers him, You are aboard my ship, sir, and my remedies are bitter. Quatermain turns, with his eyeball rolled back, teeth clenched, and streams of sweat rolling off of his face, and he says, Who state that? ... I see you only dimly, sir. If you are real and not slightly opium djinn sent to torment me, tell me who you are A turbaned gentlemankind with a long beard and curled mustache, his eyes dark with the weight down of years of exploring the depths of the oceans, exploring the unknown, and seeking vengeance with a hate that consumed him but that he controlled, looked down upon Quatermain and answered, No-one. Captain Nemo truly is no one. He expresses no nationality or loyalty but to him self and the oceans. In the original novel, Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, written by Jules Verne, Nemo says, Professor, I am not what you call a civilized man I stool done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone have the right of appreciating. I do not therefore obey its laws, and I desire you never to allude to them before me again The narrator, Professor Aronnax, states, This was utter plainly. A flash of angerand disdain kindled in the eyes of the Unknown, and I had a glimpse of a terrible past in the tone of this man (73). Captain Nemo is outside of society, living deep in the oceans he is the terror of the unknown. His ship, the Nautilus, is thought to be a sea monster, and the legend is talked abo... ...best of humanity, and he showed the worst that the best of us can do. Bibliography Allott, Kenneth. Chapter III 1863-1870. New York The Macmillan Co., 1941. Buzard, James, Linda K. Hughes. The mincing Nation and its Others and 1870. A Comp anion to Victorian Literature and Culture. Ed. Herbert F. Tucker. Malden Blackwell Publishers, 1999. 35-50, 438-455. Cappetti, Diana, Julie Lewis, Michael Mullen. Late 19th Century Poets. Diss. FGCU, 2001. Moore, Alan, Kevin ONeill. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Canada Americas Best Comics, L.L.C., 2000. Verne, Jules. Captain Nemo. New York Vincent Parke and Co., 1911. Verne, Jules. Twenty-thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Cleveland The World Publishing Co., 1946. Island of Dr. Moreau, H.G. Wells. Diss. FGCU, 2001.