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Compare And Contrast Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea

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“Contrasting Viewpoints Aboard the Nautilus” Characters have a way of becoming real people with ideals, feelings, raw emotions and personality traits that anyone can connect with in their own unique way. An adventure such as deep sea exploring is a chance few in the world get; being able to live it through Jules Verne’s book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, readers are able to escape from the world around them and dive deep into an underwater world of great proportions. Due to detailed accounts of mesmerizing and dangerous creatures that are thousands of leagues under the sea, as well as events that conflict with human morals, the reader is able to see what Pierre Arronax saw, be consumed by fascination like Conseil was, and feel imprisonment …show more content…

Scared about Ned Land’s sanity, Conseil confided in Aronnax about his thoughts of the food aboard the Nautilus compared to Ned Land; “Ned Lane completely disagrees with me... He’s getting tired of looking at fish and eating nothing else day after day with the sack of meat, bread, and wine; it's hard for a Saxon to go without his beefsteaks and his dash of brandy or gin” (Verne 137). Land’s need for red meat got so intense that he half jokingly half not, talked about cannibalism saying to Conseil “I’m beginning to understand the charms of cannibalism!” which then inquidensely caused Conseil to yell back asking if he was sane, “and to think we share a cabin!” (Verne 145). Once able to get a chance to go ashore to hunt for food Ned Land’s insanity seemed to calm down. As this went on Aronnax again provided a different view on the food saying “the food on board seemed to agree with us marvelously, and as for me, I could easily have done without the variations Ned Land managed to bring on board in a spirit of protest” (Verne 180). Even with the simple protest of the food, it shows a major difference in character between Aronnax, Ned land, and

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