Theme: transformation
Wuthering Heights / Dreams and Identity
“Nelly, do you never dream queer dreams?” she said, suddenly, after some minutes’ reflection. I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me e...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Artistic Confrontation
I overcame the horror that inspired me, and, taking a pencil, began to draw it. “Perhaps this is the same which the Alector saw,” said Conseil.
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Nightmare Awakening
I could feel his hot and fetid breath on my neck; and with a horrid jump--awoke from my nightmare sleep. I was still on the raft with my uncle and the...
Dracula / New Beginnings
He has closed the account most accurately, and to-day begun a new record. How many of us begin a new record with each day of our lives? To me it seems...
Frankenstein / Literary Awakening
The cottage of my protectors had been the only school in which I had studied human nature, but this book developed new and mightier scenes of action. ...
The War of the Worlds / Silent Transformation
He did not remember hearing any birds that morning, there was certainly no breeze stirring, and the only sounds were the faint movements from within t...
The War of the Worlds / Human Migration Chaos
The legendary hosts of Goths and Huns, the hugest armies Asia has ever seen, would have been but a drop in that current. And this was no disciplined m...
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...
Frankenstein / Yearning for Connection
I asked, it is true, for greater treasures than a little food or rest: I required kindness and sympathy; but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy...
Frankenstein / Creative Duality
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...
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...
Gulliver's Travels / Recovery and Hospitality
However, upon waking, I found myself much recovered. It was now about eight o’clock at night, and the captain ordered supper immediately, thinking I h...
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...
Frankenstein / Decay and Mortality
My attention was fixed upon every object the most insupportable to the delicacy of the human feelings. I saw how the fine form of man was degraded and...
The War of the Worlds / Mechanical Innovations
These last had brought with them certain fresh appliances that stood in an orderly manner about the cylinder. The second handling-machine was now comp...
The War of the Worlds / Journey of Companionship
When it was clear to him that I meant to go alone—had reconciled myself to going alone—he suddenly roused himself to come. And all being quiet through...
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...
The War of the Worlds / Meteoric Discovery
But very early in the morning poor Ogilvy, who had seen the shooting star and who was persuaded that a meteorite lay somewhere on the common between H...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Threshold of Escape
For an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself through, and lay half-fai...
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 / Transformative Landscape
But, in three hours travelling, the scene was wholly altered; we came into a most beautiful country; farmers’ houses, at small distances, neatly built...
The War of the Worlds / Unexpected Encounters
In another moment a bend in the road hid the three men from my brother’s eyes. So, quite unexpectedly, my brother found himself, panting, with a cut m...
The War of the Worlds / Hope Amidst Despair
It grew upon my mind, once I could face the facts, that terrible as our position was, there was as yet no justification for absolute despair. Our chie...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Transformation Through Discovery
"Are you convinced?" said my uncle, with a self-satisfied smile. "I am convinced," I cried, "that what I see is incredible." The fact was that my jour...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Natures Enchantment
But that which served as steps under our feet became in other places stalactites. The lava, very porous in certain places, took the form of little rou...
Dracula / Vitality and Loss
Harker came in to see me this afternoon she wasn’t the same; it was like tea after the teapot had been watered.” Here we all moved, but no one said a ...