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An eight page paper looking at the effect of Jules Verne's futuristic technology on his society and our own. The paper concludes that Verne's work, like his other fantastic voyage novels, encouraged people to incorporate the challenge of technology into their lives and move outside boundaries formerly considered 'safe.' Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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visionary whose claim to fame rests on his supposedly having predicted, as William Butcher observes, "much of the twentieth century, including the exploration of the depths of the sea,
of the interior of the earth, and of outer space. He is also meant to have foreseen the submarine, the aeroplane, and perhaps the motor-car" (Butcher, encycl.html). But more to
the point, through Vernes emphasis on mobility, he transformed the utopian vision of past generations -- which was focused upon a immovable place, a plot of land, a city --
to a vision of people in motion, and thus completely changed the way we think of ourselves in relationship to our world. Butcher describes Vernes novel briefly: "Vingt mille lieues
sous les mers (Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas) (1869-1870) recounts a journey by submarine, with Captain Nemo (nobody in Latin) as the enigmatic hero. The novel includes dramatic episodes
such as the passage under the Antarctic icecap, the planting of a flag on the South Pole, and the discovery of the ruins of Atlantis" (Butcher, encycl.html). Vernes novel has
all the attributes of a modern-day adventure story. The most interesting aspects of the story, however, are certainly the way Verne is able to present the technology of the future
as if it existed at the time. Carter Kaplan notes that "Verne exhibits strict adherence to known science or pseudo-science, a journalistic style ornamented by a wealth of technical detail,
and a curiosity for radical character types existing at the fringes of conventional society" (Kaplan, 139). Captain Nemo is certainly one of these characters: his goal is to abolish war
by sabotaging navies, and he seems oblivious of the fact that in doing so he is creating carnage that would certainly be equal to that of any nineteenth-century sea battle.
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