Theme: agency
Dracula / Desperation for Life
Check to the King!” We took Lucy into another room, which had by now been prepared, and laid her in bed and forced a few drops of brandy down her thro...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Nature vs Humanity
But we cannot prevent equilibrium from producing its effects. We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.” Captain Nemo had chosen a s...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Man vs Nature
As we are totally incapable of steering our frail craft, we shall become the mere plaything of the storm, and it is acting the part of madmen if we, a...
Dracula / Intimacy and Control
He rubbed the brandy, as on another occasion, on her lips and gums and on her wrists and the palms of her hands. He said to me:-- “I can do this, all ...
Pride and Prejudice / Colonels Arrival
Darcy had brought with him a Colonel Fitzwilliam, the younger son of his uncle, Lord ----; and, to the great surprise of all the party, when Mr.
Pride and Prejudice / Marriage and Class
Collins arrived on Tuesday, addressed to their father, and written with all the solemnity of gratitude which a twelve-month’s abode in the family migh...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Colonial Justice
Judge Obadiah had unfortunately caught Passepartout’s rash exclamation, which the poor fellow would have given the world to recall. “Inasmuch,” resume...
Pride and Prejudice / Familial Tensions
I have not been in the habit of brooking disappointment.” “_That_ will make your Ladyship’s situation at present more pitiable; but it will have no ef...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Train Decoupling Incident
There, suspended by one hand between the baggage-car and the tender, with the other he loosened the safety chains; but, owing to the traction, he woul...
Pride and Prejudice / Rejection of Opulence
She must own that she was tired of great houses: after going over so many, she really had no pleasure in fine carpets or satin curtains. “If it were m...
The War of the Worlds / Fate of Humanity
And as the day came they became aware of a fighting-machine standing near by the Langham and looking down at them. He came down the road towards them,...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Resignation and Fate
In a mood of stolid and sullen resignation, I was about to take my accustomed place on the raft when my uncle placed his hand upon my shoulder. "There...
The War of the Worlds / Power Dynamics
And even if there’s a delay, how can it alter the end? There’s the ants builds their cities, live their lives, have wars, revolutions, until the men w...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Cultural Influence
If she had, it must be someone from America because she had spent so short a time in this country that she could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Marriage and Regret
Lestrade of Scotland Yard.” “You were not yourself at fault at all, then?” “From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that the lady h...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Desperate Choices
They then discussed the means of getting at the victim. The guide was familiar with the pagoda of Pillaji, in which, as he declared, the young woman w...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Naming the Unknown
sea voyage had at length commenced; and once more we were making for distant and unknown regions. Just as we were about to leave the little port where...
Pride and Prejudice / Marriage and Agency
I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Existential Struggle
My clothes encumbered me; they seemed glued to my body, and paralysed my movements. My mouth filled with water; I struggled against being drawn down t...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Greed and Deception
His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but there are women in whom the love of...