Theme: identity
Frankenstein / Unexpected Encounter
Their first supposition was that it was the corpse of some person who had been drowned and was thrown on shore by the waves, but on examination they f...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Mormon Society Insight
They saw few or no churches, but the prophet’s mansion, the court-house, and the arsenal, blue-brick houses with verandas and porches, surrounded by g...
Frankenstein / Freedom and Accountability
Kirwin’s to give an account of yourself.” “Who is Mr. Is not this a free country?” “Ay, sir, free enough for honest folks.
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Longing and Confinement
His past life is always present to him; everything that we are forbidden he regrets. Nothing; he is not learned like you, sir; and has not the same ta...
Frankenstein / Creator and Creature
I did not know the names of the towns that I was to pass through, nor could I ask information from a single human being; but I did not despair. From y...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Cultural Intersections
The dishes, of bell metal, were placed on the table, and we took our places. Undoubtedly we had to do with civilised people, and, had it not been for ...
Frankenstein / Alienation and Identity
The gentle words of Agatha and the animated smiles of the charming Arabian were not for me. The mild exhortations of the old man and the lively conver...
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...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Financial Stability
I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far as we have been able to ascertain, amount to £ 88 10_s_., while he has £ 220 standing to ...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / League of Unusual Jobs
Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: “‘I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, th...
Frankenstein / Isolation in Nature
But I was in no mood to laugh and talk with strangers or enter into their feelings or plans with the good humour expected from a guest; and accordingl...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Deductive Curiosity
“Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and tha...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Cultural Encounters
“Well, we are really in America,” thought Passepartout, “and the conductor is a gentleman of the first order!” So muttering, he followed his master. T...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Camaraderie and Rivalry
For two streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and burst into a h...
The War of the Worlds / Visceral Recognition
Nearer, I distinguished the green slime of ditches mixing with the pale drab of dried clay and shiny, coaly patches. His black hair fell over his eyes...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Secrets of the Deep
The chest was securely fastened, and the Captain wrote an address on the lid, in characters which must have belonged to Modern Greece. This done, Capt...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Cunning Strategy
Fogg’s plan appeared to him the simplest in the world. Instead of sailing directly from England to the United States, like a common villain, he had tr...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Moral Ambiguity
Ryder stood glaring with a drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. He’s not got blood enough to go in for felony with impunity. What a...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Significance of Trifles
It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles. there has been an enclosure here!” “Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring.”...
Dracula / Vampiric Transformation
I can see the characteristics of the vampire coming in her face. It is now but very, very slight; but it is to be seen if we have eyes to notice witho...
Dracula / Transformation and Control
As he dare not change to man’s form without suspicion--which he evidently wishes to avoid--he must remain in the box. If, then, we can come on board a...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Journey Through Nature
The railway turned around the sides of the mountains, and did not attempt to violate nature by taking the shortest cut from one point to another. The ...
Gulliver's Travels / Translation and Truth
But I shall here only set down the substance of what passed between us concerning my own country, reducing it in order as well as I can, without any r...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Colonial Tensions
it’s you, is it, Englishman?” cried the colonel; “it’s you who are going to play a spade!” “And who plays it,” replied Phileas Fogg coolly, throwing d...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Mormon Missionary Encounter
This personage, who had taken the train at Elko, was tall and dark, with black moustache, black stockings, a black silk hat, a black waistcoat, black ...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Awakening Justice
The sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, and then rubbed i...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Deception and Pursuit
Now that he was fully convinced, Fix had quite recovered his equanimity. He passes himself off as an odd stick who is going round the world in eighty ...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Despair and Decision
Fogg was certainly ruined, his bet was lost, and he himself perhaps arrested and imprisoned! Ah, if Fix ever came within his reach, what a settling of...
Frankenstein / Creator and Creature
Relieve me from the sight of your detested form.” “Thus I relieve thee, my creator,” he said, and placed his hated hands before my eyes, which I flung...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Charismatic Intrigue
He was a remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached—evidently the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a great hurry, shouted to...
Pride and Prejudice / Familial Influence
I had not believed it possible.” “I suspected as much,” replied Elizabeth. “But how did he account for it?” “It must have been his sisters’ doing.
Frankenstein / Familial Expectations
Your father’s health is vigorous, and he asks but to see you, but to be assured that you are well; and not a care will ever cloud his benevolent count...
The War of the Worlds / Ordinary Catastrophe
He extended a thin white hand and spoke in almost a complaining tone. The morning service was over, I was walking through the roads to clear my brain ...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Temporal Clash
Am I, then, an inhabitant of the earth of the present day, destined to find myself face to face with a representative of this antediluvian family? I c...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Culinary Discomfort
The water was fresh and clear, but it was water, and did not suit Ned Land’s taste. Amongst the dishes which were brought to us, I recognised several ...
Frankenstein / Transition and Isolation
I, who had ever been surrounded by amiable companions, continually engaged in endeavouring to bestow mutual pleasure—I was now alone. In the universit...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Urban Deception
Then with a red head of hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Longing for the Past
Was he dreaming of those generations long since disappeared? Was it here this strange man came to steep himself in historical recollections, and live ...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Colonial Contrasts
From hence I went to the house of the Governor--a mere hut in comparison with the Mansion House of Hamburg--but a palace alongside the other Icelandic...
Gulliver's Travels / Governance and Identity
I mentioned the prudent management of our treasury; the valour and achievements of our forces, by sea and land. I computed the number of our people, b...
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...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Moral Ambiguity
Fogg is no more a robber than I am a murderer.” Should he divulge Fix’s real errand to his master? Would it do to tell the part the detective was play...
Gulliver's Travels / Human Nature Revealed
He went through all our vices and follies, and discovered many, which I had never mentioned to him, by only supposing what qualities a _Yahoo_ of thei...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Colonial Desolation
The ground was covered by groups of the Indians, motionless in their drunken sleep; it seemed a battlefield strewn with the dead. In the background, a...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Cultural Encounters
But he shrank from telling the story of his adventures, intimately connected as it was with that of his master; and, before doing so, he determined to...
Dracula / Secrets and Acknowledgments
I have copied out the words on my typewriter, and none other need now hear your heart beat, as I did.” “No one need ever know, shall ever know,” I sai...
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...
Gulliver's Travels / Identity and Perception
He desired to see no more; and gave me leave to put on my clothes again, for I was shuddering with cold. I expressed my uneasiness at his giving me so...
Dracula / Vigilance and Appearance
He will need very careful watching, and much attention. I shall stay with you myself; but I shall first dress myself.
Around the World in Eighty Days / Betting Culture
This article made a great deal of noise, and, being copied into all the papers, seriously depressed the advocates of the rash tourist. Everybody knows...
Frankenstein / Survival and Identity
Only one dog remained alive; but there was a human being within it whom the sailors were persuading to enter the vessel. He was not, as the other trav...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Social Dynamics
At last, when nothing else would do, he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be ou...
Gulliver's Travels / Identity and Contempt
I expressed my uneasiness at his giving me so often the appellation of _Yahoo_, an odious animal, for which I had so utter a hatred and contempt: I be...
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...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Linguistic Power
After some moments of silence, which not one of us dreamed of breaking, “Gentlemen,” said he, in a calm and penetrating voice, “I speak French, Englis...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Cultural Exchange
Batulcar, was to commence at three o’clock, and soon the deafening instruments of a Japanese orchestra resounded at the door. Passepartout, though he ...
Dracula / Depths of Expression
I am speaking from the depths of my heart--of my very soul. You don’t know whom you wrong, or how; and I may not tell.
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Naming Identity
And the name of "Hansbach" ("Hans Brook") was at once agreed upon. Hans was not a bit more proud after hearing our determination than he was before. A...
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 ...