Theme: connection
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Isolation and Wilderness
What, then, must be the state of the less known and more distant parts of the island? After traveling fully half a Danish mile, we had met neither a f...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Journey Through Winter
Aouda, cosily packed in furs and cloaks, was sheltered as much as possible from the attacks of the freezing wind. As for Passepartout, his face was as...
Gulliver's Travels / Nature and Innocence
I cannot tell whether I were more pleased or mortified to observe, in those solitary walks, that the smaller birds did not appear to be at all afraid ...
Frankenstein / Isolation and Connection
If I have no ties and no affections, hatred and vice must be my portion; the love of another will destroy the cause of my crimes, and I shall become a...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Secrets and Isolation
I keep you, when I could, by a word, plunge you into the depths of the ocean. You came to surprise a secret which no man in the world must penetrate,—...
Frankenstein / Spirit and Consolation
has decayed, but your spirit still visits and consoles your unhappy friend.
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Journeys Anticipation
My uncle came out of his cabin pale, haggard, thin, but full of enthusiasm, his eyes dilated with pleasure and satisfaction. Nearly the whole populati...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Character Dynamics
Aouda fastened her great eyes, “clear as the sacred lakes of the Himalaya,” upon him; but the intractable Fogg, as reserved as ever, did not seem at a...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Urgency of Discovery
“May I see it?” “Certainly.” He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it inten...
Dracula / Mind and Madness
I have tried to keep an open mind; and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, th...
The War of the Worlds / Curiosity and Connection
“It’s a pity they make themselves so unapproachable,” he said. “It would be curious to know how they live on another planet; we might learn a thing or...
Dracula / Bravery and Kindness
It seemed but poor comfort to so brave and unselfish a soul, and impulsively I bent over and kissed him. The tears rose in his eyes, and there was a m...
Frankenstein / Isolation and Virtue
My vices are the children of a forced solitude that I abhor, and my virtues will necessarily arise when I live in communion with an equal. I shall fee...
Dracula / Guilt and Uncertainty
He doubted me when I took him from her kiss when she was dying. I know he has forgiven me because in some mistaken idea I have done things that preven...
Dracula / Disconnection and Nostalgia
When we entered we saw with amazement that he had spread out his sugar as of old; the flies, lethargic with the autumn, were beginning to buzz into th...
Frankenstein / Emotional Resilience
They elevated me from all littleness of feeling, and although they did not remove my grief, they subdued and tranquillised it. In some degree, also, t...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Cultural Engagement
Could your patients spare you for a few hours?” “I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very absorbing.” “Then put on your hat and come. I ...