Theme: enlightenment
Frankenstein / Descent and Liberation
I walked and, I believe, descended, but I presently found a great alteration in my sensations. Before, dark and opaque bodies had surrounded me, imper...
Frankenstein / Self-Taught Pursuits
It may appear strange that such should arise in the eighteenth century; but while I followed the routine of education in the schools of Geneva, I was,...
Gulliver's Travels / Philosophy of Mundanity
The good woman, with much difficulty, at last perceived what I would be at, and taking me up again in her hand, walked into the garden, where she set ...
Gulliver's Travels / Observation and Folly
That he laughed at their folly, and went himself in the boat, ordering his men to take a strong cable along with them. That the weather being calm, he...
Gulliver's Travels / Horses and Humanity
When I asserted that the _Yahoos_ were the only governing animals in my country, which my master said was altogether past his conception, he desired t...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Geographic Revelation
“Well, Sir Naturalist,” said the Canadian, in a slightly jovial tone, “and the Mediterranean?” “We are floating on its surface, friend Ned.” “What!” s...
Gulliver's Travels / Perception vs Reality
But this princess, who has an infinite deal of wit and humour, set me gently on my feet upon the scrutoire, and commanded me to give his majesty an ac...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Moment of Uncertainty
At this moment nothing is clear to me; I catch but a glimpse of light amidst all the darkness, and I must confine myself to writing as events shall di...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Voyage of Discovery
My uncle was careful to note every hour the indications of the compass, of the manometer, and of the thermometer, all which he afterwards published in...
Gulliver's Travels / Nature of Vice
He was wholly at a loss to know what could be the use or necessity of practising those vices. To clear up which, I endeavoured to give some ideas of t...
Gulliver's Travels / Truth and Authority
He makes a proposal of much advantage to the king, which is rejected. The learning of that country very imperfect and confined. The laws, and military...
Frankenstein / Intellectual Passion
My application was at first fluctuating and uncertain; it gained strength as I proceeded and soon became so ardent and eager that the stars often disa...
Gulliver's Travels / Eccentric Ambitions
Every room has in it one or more projectors; and I believe I could not be in fewer than five hundred rooms. The first man I saw was of a meagre aspect...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Inner Turmoil
I began in the newly aroused ardor of my soul to speak enthusiastically to the Professor. The whole state in which we existed was a mystery--and it wa...
Gulliver's Travels / Critique of Humanity
And it must be owned, that seven months were a sufficient time to correct every vice and folly to which _Yahoos_ are subject, if their natures had bee...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Gibraltar Currents
On the 18th of February, about three o’clock in the morning, we were at the entrance of the Straits of Gibraltar. There once existed two currents: an ...
Frankenstein / Truth and Discovery
The sun does not more certainly shine in the heavens than that which I now affirm is true. Some miracle might have produced it, yet the stages of the ...