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Jules Verne. ... Jules Verne had an imagination and a vision for the future unrivaled
by anyone of his time. This paper will elucidate many of those descriptions. ...
Jules Verne. Jules Verne Going to moon, a balloon trip around the world,
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Jules verne. ARP-I Jules Verne pioneered the science fiction genre. He
developed a vocabulary that would enhance his “novel of ...
... before. The original title of this book is “Voyage au centre de la terre”
and is written by the famous writer Jules Verne. The ...
... In the novel, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, author Jules Verne tells the
fictitious story of three men and their adventures as they descend into the ...
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Jules Verne pioneered the science fiction genre. He developed a vocabulary that would
enhance his “novel of science” in 65 volumes, of which the most famous are Five Weeks in a
Balloon (1862) Voyage to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the
Sea, Around the World in Eighty Days, and Mysterious Island. These novels also provided Verne with the opportunity to engage in social criticism concerning, for example, the abuses of European colonization, whales as an endangered species, fossil fuel pollution, and slaughtering elephants for ivory. Most people called Verne a prophet for his time. Verne was also a visionary with a sense of poetry evident in his descriptions of the landscapes and animals that fill his fantasic journeys.
Some of Vernes Novel’s had objects or ideas that coincide with the future of his time period or ours. Such as in Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea. Captain Nemo’s name is a subtle allusion to Homers Odyssey a Greek epic poem. In the odyssey, Odysseus meets the monstrous Cyclops polyphemous during the course of his wonderings. Odysseus translates to (“No Man” or “ No-body). In Latin Nemo translates to the same exact thing. Similar to Nemo Odysseus is forced to wonder the seas in exile ( though only for ten years ) and is tormented by the deaths of his ships crew. “Captain Maury” in Verne’s book, is a real life oceanographer who explored the winds, seas, currents, and collected samples of the bottom of the seas and charted all of these things. References are made to three other French men. Those are Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de la Pérouse, a famous explorer who was lost while circumnavigating the globe; Dumont D’ Urville, the explorer who found remains of the ill fated
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ship of the count; and Ferdinand Lesseps builder of the Suez channel and the nephew of the
man who was the soul...
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