Theme: struggle
Frankenstein / Ambition and Despair
Even now I cannot recollect without passion my reveries while the work was incomplete. I trod heaven in my thoughts, now exulting in my powers, now bu...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Man vs Nature
Without noticing or speaking to us, he went to the panel, looked at the poulps, and said something to his lieutenant. Naturalist,” he replied; “and we...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Natures Duality
Some overhanging rocks afforded us a slight protection from the torrents. Under this shelter, Hans prepared some food, which, however, I was unable to...
Wuthering Heights / Class and Conflict
don’t let them say such things,” she pursued in great trouble. “Papa is gone to fetch my cousin from London: my cousin is a gentleman’s son. That my—”...
The War of the Worlds / Desolation and Isolation
I sat about in the darkness of the scullery, in a state of despondent wretchedness. I thought I had become deaf, for the noises of movement I had been...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Natures Peril
But if this awful noise proceeds from a cataract--if, so to speak in plain English, this vast interior ocean is precipitated into a lower basin--if th...
Dracula / Emotional Contrasts
My dear, I must stop here at present, I feel so miserable, though I am so happy. “_Evening._ “Arthur has just gone, and I feel in better spirits than ...
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...
Pride and Prejudice / Inheritance and Insensibility
“I cannot bear to think that they should have all this estate. If it was not for the entail, I should not mind it.” “What should not you mind?” “I sho...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Defiance in Darkness
“I would drown first.” Just then the moon appeared through the fringes of a thick cloud that the wind was driving to the east. She was five miles from...
Frankenstein / Innocence and Malevolence
Nothing in human shape could have destroyed the fair child. The mere presence of the idea was an irresistible proof of the fact. I thought of pursuing...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Tempestuous Struggles
keep up the sail--no matter what happens." These words were scarcely uttered when the southern horizon underwent a sudden and violent change. The long...
Dracula / Life and Numbers
I scolded him for it, but he argued quietly that it was very good and very wholesome; that it was life, strong life, and gave life to him. He has evid...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Iron Bar Symbolism
I am unable to withdraw my eyes from the bar of iron, actually half crushed! Is, then, my dream about to come true--a dread and terrible reality?
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Natures Supremacy
But the accursed animal swam too at the rate of 18½ miles an hour. For a whole hour, the frigate kept up this pace, without gaining six feet. It was h...
Frankenstein / Descent and Liberation
I walked and, I believe, descended, but I presently found a great alteration in my sensations. Before, dark and opaque bodies had surrounded me, imper...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Sanity and Madness
Surely my brain had not been affected by my fall, and all that occurred during the last twenty-four hours was not the frenzied visions of madness? And...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Governess Displaced
“I have been a governess for five years,” said she, “in the family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel received an appointment at ...
Frankenstein / Inner Turmoil
My internal being was in a state of insurrection and turmoil; I felt that order would thence arise, but I had no power to produce it.
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Knowledge and Perception
Anxious as I was, I was for a long time doomed to disappointment. Hans coolly drew it in, and with it a fish, which struggled violently to escape. "It...
Dracula / Social Dynamics
We once carried out a small matter of renting some chambers for him when he was the Honourable Arthur Holmwood. If you will let me have his lordship’s...
Frankenstein / Fear and Isolation
My wife and my sister will never recover from their horror. Take possession of your tenement and let me fly from this place.’ “Felix trembled violentl...
Dracula / Health and Hope
Last night she slept well all night, and did not disturb me once. The roses seem coming back already to her cheeks, though she is still sadly pale and...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Shadows on the Bridge
The bridge was covered with black, agitated shadows. The poor creatures were crowding the ratlines, clinging to the masts, struggling under the water.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Class and Deceit
James Ryder, upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess of Morcar ...
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...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Moment of Uncertainty
At this moment nothing is clear to me; I catch but a glimpse of light amidst all the darkness, and I must confine myself to writing as events shall di...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Structural Resilience
I felt the steel plates tremble at the fastenings of the bolts; its bars bent, its partitions groaned; the windows of the saloon seemed to curve under...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Navigating Adversity
The wind was very unfavorable to a craft that was unable to sail close to the wind. We were continually reduced to pushing ourselves forward by means ...
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...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Conflict of Knowledge
My uncle had completely defeated me with his scientific arguments. Nevertheless, I had still one hope, and that was, when once we were at the bottom o...
Frankenstein / Fate and Love
And then I thought again of his words—“_I will be with you on your wedding-night._” That, then, was the period fixed for the fulfilment of my destiny....
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Wreckage and Despair
The keel seemed to be in good order, and it had been wrecked at most some few hours. Three stumps of masts, broken off about two feet above the bridge...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Survival in Isolation
On March 22, the _Nautilus_ was in the open polar seas. For five days we had lived on the reserve on board. And what was left of the respirable air mu...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Class Conflict
It was the favourite wish of _his_ mother, as well as of hers. While in their cradles we planned the union; and now, at the moment when the wishes of ...
The War of the Worlds / Titan Encounter
I marched on recklessly towards this Titan, and then, as I drew nearer and the light grew, I saw that a multitude of black birds was circling and clus...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Identity Transformation
He was the keeper of a low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings tr...
Frankenstein / Sensory Awakening
I walked and, I believe, descended, but I presently found a great alteration in my sensations. Before, dark and opaque bodies had surrounded me, imper...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Heroic Suffering
But at last the time came when my limbs refused to carry me longer. I contended heroically against the terrible tortures I endured, because I did not ...
The War of the Worlds / Collective Resilience
I heard answering shouts from the people in the water about me. I could have leaped out of the water with that momentary exultation.
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...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Inner Turmoil
My uncle, who for a short time had been withdrawn from his absorbing reveries by the novel incidents of this sea fight, fell back again apparently int...
Dracula / Everyday Interactions
The workman took off his coat leisurely and hung it on one of the spikes of the rail, saying something to a policeman who just then sauntered along. T...
Gulliver's Travels / Civilization vs Savagery
This is enough to say upon the subject of my diet, wherewith other travellers fill their books, as if the readers were personally concerned whether we...
Pride and Prejudice / Inheritance Dynamics
And so, I suppose, they often talk of having Longbourn when your father is dead. They look upon it quite as their own, I dare say, whenever that happe...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Despair and Isolation
Again I made the old ruins resound with my cries, and finally so exhausted myself that I fainted. How long I lay in a kind of trance or sleep I cannot...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Fatigue and Nature
What could be the cause of this--to what atmospheric agitation could be ascribed this draught? But this was a question which I did not care to discuss...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Desolation and Pity
The country we had reached was already nearly a desert. Here and there could be seen an isolated farm, some solitary bur, or Icelandic house, built of...
The War of the Worlds / Hope Amid Destruction
Plentiful hope—for all this destruction!” I began to explain my view of our position. He listened at first, but as I went on the interest dawning in h...
Dracula / Dichotomy of Silence
the same thing happened--violent all day then quiet from moonrise to sunrise.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Family and Obligation
“‘Here we are, Jack,’ says he, touching me on the arm; ‘we’ll be as good as a family to you. There’s two of us, me and my son, and you can have the ke...