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

The Character of No-one in Twenty-Thousand Leagues downstairs the Sea Alan Quatermain, academic term hunched over and delirious from opium withdrawal, has been taken aboard a great submersible vessel. The aging adventurer says, P-please. I feel so sick. penury my medicine. A cold voice answers him, You are aboard my ship, sir, and my remedies are bitter. Quatermain turns, with his eye rolled back, teeth clenched, and streams of sweat rolling off of his face, and he says, Who utter that? ... I see you only dimly, sir. If you are real and not some(a) opium djinn sent to torment me, tell me who you are A turbaned piece with a long beard and curled mustache, his eyes dark with the lean 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 himself 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 bit I hold 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 tell plainly. A flash of angerand disdain kindled in the eyes of the Unknown, and I had a glimpse of a terrible past in the life history 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 victorian Nation and its Others and 1870. A Com panion to Victorian Literature and Culture. Ed. Herbert F. Tucker. Malden Blackwell Publishers, 1999. 35-50, 438-455. Cappetti, Diana, Julie Lewis, Michael Mullen. Late ordinal 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.