Theme: justice
Around the World in Eighty Days / Trust and Redemption
Fix evidently was no longer an enemy, but an ally; he was faithfully keeping his word. Dinner over, the coach which was to convey the passengers and t...
Frankenstein / Condemnations Weight
The ballots had been thrown; they were all black, and Justine was condemned. I had before experienced sensations of horror, and I have endeavoured to ...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Maritime Tensions
“How long will she stop at Suez?” “Four hours; long enough to get in her coal. It is thirteen hundred and ten miles from Suez to Aden, at the other en...
Gulliver's Travels / Legal Illusions
For example, if my neighbour has a mind to my cow, he has a lawyer to prove that he ought to have my cow from me. I must then hire another to defend m...
Dracula / Time and Morality
“Because,” he said sternly, “it is too late--or too early. “This was stolen in the night.” “How, stolen,” I asked in wonder, “since you have it now?” ...
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...
Frankenstein / Transformed Perception
Before, I looked upon the accounts of vice and injustice that I read in books or heard from others as tales of ancient days or imaginary evils; at lea...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Coincidence and Inquiry
It could only be a small one, or it would have been remarked upon at the coroner’s inquiry. I deduced a ventilator.” “But what harm can there be in th...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Judicial Tension
Just as the clerk was calling the next case, he rose, and said, “I offer bail.” “You have that right,” returned the judge. Fix’s blood ran cold, but h...
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 / Crime and Justice
Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found either upon his person or in his rooms. Cat...
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...
Frankenstein / Guilt and Innocence
The tortures of the accused did not equal mine; she was sustained by innocence, but the fangs of remorse tore my bosom and would not forgo their hold....
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...