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Dracula / Moral Dilemmas

Author: Bram Stoker  | Themes: responsibility, sacrifice, inaction, knowledge, loyalty

We found both places; six boxes in each and we destroyed them all!” “Destroyed?” asked the Professor. “For him!” We were silent for a minute, and then...
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Trust and Redemption

Author: Jules Verne  | Themes: trust, loyalty, determination, justice, exploration

Fix evidently was no longer an enemy, but an ally; he was faithfully keeping his word. Dinner over, the coach which was to convey the passengers and t...
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Frankenstein / Decay and Rationality

Author: Mary Shelley  | Themes: mortality, decay, rationality, education, fearlessness

In my education my father had taken the greatest precautions that my mind should be impressed with no supernatural horrors. I do not ever remember to ...
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Dracula / Fear of Intrusion

Author: Bram Stoker  | Themes: isolation, desire, societal constraints, intimacy, anxiety

Keeping my cab at the gate, I went up the avenue alone. I knocked gently and rang as quietly as possible, for I feared to disturb Lucy or her mother, ...
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The War of the Worlds / Gathering Storm

Author: H.G. Wells  | Themes: anxiety, invasion, technology, imperialism, duality

“We are in the midst of it,” I said, “quiet as it is. That flicker in the sky tells of the gathering storm. Yonder, I take it are the Martians, and Lo...
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Courage and Cost

Author: Jules Verne  | Themes: loyalty, sacrifice, adventure, camaraderie, conflict

Fogg was marching at their head, and just behind him were Passepartout and the other two travellers, rescued from the Sioux. They had met and fought t...