Essay - Submarine Culture in Jules Verne's 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the...

Submarine Culture in Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea"

***** paper presents a detailed discussion about ***** Verne's book ***** Thousand ***** Under ***** Sea. The writer of this paper takes the reader on an exploratory journey ***** ***** story itself then works to compare the culture of the people ***** the submarine ***** ***** actual cultures. The writer finishes with a discussion about the comparison. *****re were four sources used to complete this *****.

TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES OF ACCURACY

Many times in literature the author will use the story to portray or convey some truth in fiction ***** the culture he is writing about. This was t***** case wi*****h Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea. In this book the ***** takes painstaking efforts to ***** many details with extreme accuracy relating to the culture of life at sea and the findings th***** occur. Other aspects of the culture are not as easily defined because of the various nations that the shipmates come from. Howewver, the culture of sea life is a culture ***** crosses ********** barriers and Verne does an excellent job ***** painting a mental picture for the reader about ***** culture that his characters lived in the ***** ***** would have ***** had they been real.

Before one can fully analyze whether or not the culture of those in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under ***** Sea is close to the real ***** culture ***** sea voyage one must have a firm underst*****nd*****g of ***** story and its componenets. It is a book that ***** an interesting turn close to the beginning ***** the cultural attitude moves in an entirely different direction ***** that point on.

Verne opens the story with ***** tale of a monster at sea. M*****y pages ***** devoted to the telling of ***** monster that has now made worldwide acclaim because ***** the attacks ***** it has perpetrated on ships at sea. It ***** a sea m*****ster of the most violent proportions according to survivors of attacks. ***** is only appropriate that one of the most respected marine biolog*****ts in the world be commissi*****d to locate and ca*****logue ***** monster. The reader settles in and believes that the book is going to tell the ***** of a monster at sea and the reader is ready to fight the monster along side the scientist ***** ***** two assistants.

In a twist of events however once they *****re ***** sea ***** find out ***** it is not a living breathing monster at all but ***** is the Nautilus submarine commanded by Captain Nemo. The attacks have ***** occurring ***** Nemo ***** ***** want ***** world to know ***** his submarine and with good reason. He ***** the most advanced submarine ever imagined in ***** or reality. The scientist Monsier Arronax, his faithful assistant Conseil, ***** a stubborn Canadian named Ned Land find ********** on the submarine ***** accident when *****y ***** believed they had discovered a ***** giant whale. *****y spend many months