Theme: power
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Maritime Endeavors
As usual, the crew was small, five Danes doing the whole of the work. "Well, I should think about ten days," replied the skipper, "unless, indeed, we ...
Frankenstein / Natures Fury
The most violent storm hung exactly north of the town, over the part of the lake which lies between the promontory of Belrive and the village of Copêt...
Gulliver's Travels / Authority and Illusion
He desired me to give him some account of my travels; and, to let me see that I should be treated without ceremony, he dismissed all his attendants wi...
Gulliver's Travels / Noble Education Inquiry
When I had put an end to these long discourses, his majesty, in a sixth audience, consulting his notes, proposed many doubts, queries, and objections,...
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...
The War of the Worlds / Power Dynamics
And even if there’s a delay, how can it alter the end? There’s the ants builds their cities, live their lives, have wars, revolutions, until the men w...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Obstacles of Progress
“Yes, but it’s on the other side of the river.” “And can’t we cross that in a boat?” asked the colonel. It is a rapid, and we shall have to make a cir...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Colonial Encounters
However, on the 26th, appeased by some presents, and understanding that they had no reprisals to fear, they led M. There, in three or four fathoms of ...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Chase of the Cetacean
The _Abraham Lincoln_, propelled by her wonderful screw, went straight at the animal. The latter allowed it to come within half a cable’s length; then...
The War of the Worlds / Destruction and Indifference
Two days after I was imprisoned it had been destroyed, with every soul in it, by a Martian. He had swept it out of existence, as it seemed, without an...
Dracula / Breaking Boundaries
Suddenly the door was burst open, and in rushed my patient, with his face distorted with passion. I was thunderstruck, for such a thing as a patient g...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Volcanic Exploration
Nevertheless, it appeared quite clear to me, that we were not in the principal chimney of the volcano, but in an accessory conduit, where we felt the ...
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.
Gulliver's Travels / Movement and Music
His majesty had given orders, that the island should move north-east and by east, to the vertical point over Lagado, the metropolis of the whole kingd...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Natures Fury
At a less advanced season of the year the typhoon, according to a famous meteorologist, would have passed away like a luminous cascade of electric fla...
Gulliver's Travels / Political Ambition
The worst mark you can receive is a promise, especially when it is confirmed with an oath; after which, every wise man retires, and gives over all hop...