Theme: human connection
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,—...
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...
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 / 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...