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Gulliver's Travels / Servitude and Resilience

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: power dynamics, hope, oppression, identity, protection  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-03-22

That the life I had since led was laborious enough to kill an animal of ten times my strength. That my health was much impaired, by the continual drud...
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Frankenstein / Betrayal and Virtue

Author: Mary Shelley (Gutenberg)  | Themes: betrayal, virtue, oppression, loss, ingratitude  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-03-22

“They found a miserable asylum in the cottage in Germany, where I discovered them. Felix soon learned that the treacherous Turk, for whom he and his f...
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Judicial Tension

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: justice, power dynamics, socio-economic disparity, institutional oppression  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-07

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...
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Colonial Desolation

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: colonialism, identity, oppression, loss, survival  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-29

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...
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Around the World in Eighty Days / Desperate Choices

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: oppression, agency, colonialism, ritual, desperation  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-27

They then discussed the means of getting at the victim. The guide was familiar with the pagoda of Pillaji, in which, as he declared, the young woman w...
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Gulliver's Travels / Struggle for Freedom

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: oppression, autonomy, violence, fantasy, colonialism  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-20

I lay all this while, as the reader may believe, in great uneasiness. At length, struggling to get loose, I had the fortune to break the strings, and ...