Theme: transformation
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 ...