Essays on Jules Verne

Around the World in Eighty Days is an early example of an adventure novel written by Jules Verne (1873). Although now best known for his science fiction, this adventure novel set at the time of its publishing was Verne’s most popular work during his lifetime (Lottman, 1995). This story glorifies the recent advances in transportation and brings the newly opened world, now made smaller and more assessable, to the attention of a popular readership. It is difficult in this time of globalization and instant ability to communicate anywhere in the world to try to perceive how adventuresome and amazing ...

Jules Verne is arguably one of the most prescient science-fiction authors in history – his works are remembered for their vast imagination and endlessly prescient views into the future of science and the exciting nature of their adventures. One of his most well known works, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, is on its surface a fantastical tale of a group of men who stumble upon the secret submarine Nautilus, commanded by the enigmatic Captain Nemo. However, closer examination of the novel itself reveals Verne’s penchant for social commentary and intricate political subtext, as 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea becomes a ...

Georges Méliès was the one of the first directors in the history of world cinema to leave the audience in awe. The stalwart’s works have continued to impress gazillion film lovers across the globe in the past century. What made him stand apart was the fact that his films were not documents of prosaic events. Rather, the man portrayed scenes that could only exist in the vivid imagination of the audience before this. The eminent film theorist, Tom Gunning, tags his films with the phrase ‘cinema of attractions’ which describes his works as a perfect mesh of spectatorship, ...

In a world of the future, a regular walk will look like a swimming in the pool and the entire world will be drowned. This Atlántida – like image, which seems to be the representation extracted from a Jules Verne book, aims to create awareness among people upon their responsibility of maintaining the earth and the environment healthy. The ad is a social responsibility campaign, which blends text, image and colors for transmitting a message, a call for action. The as is directed towards everybody, because everybody can contribute to a healthy world and environment. The text of the ad is formed of two sentences: “Don’ ...