Madame de Traventhal, in the hope of curing him of his obsession, sends for a physician newly arrived in the country, a certain Doctor Ox (from the short story " Dr. He has never learned the identity of his father, but he dreams obsessively of travel and adventure, and wishes to follow in the footsteps of great explorers: Otto Lidenbrock (from Journey to the Center of the Earth), Captain Nemo (from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea), Michel Ardan (from From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon), and especially Captain Hatteras. Upon his return to England, where he spent the rest of his life in a mental hospital, his young son Georges was confided to the care of the aristocrat Madame de Traventhal, of Castle Andernak in Denmark.Īt the start of the play, Georges is living with Madame de Traventhal and her granddaughter Eva, to whom he is engaged. The sixth, Hatteras, is mentioned as the protagonist's father.Ībout twenty years before the play begins, the Arctic explorer Captain John Hatteras became the first man to reach the North Pole, but went mad in the attempt (as described in Verne's novel The Adventures of Captain Hatteras). Artelett (renamed Tartelet), Doctor Ox, Lidenbrock, Nemo, and Ardan. Recent scholars have discussed the play's exploration of the fantasy genre and of initiation myths, its use of characters and concepts from Verne's novels, and of the ambiguous treatment of scientific ambition in the play, marking a transition from optimism to pessimism in Verne's treatment of scientific themes.įive characters from Verne's books who appear in the play: T. The play was not published during Verne's lifetime and was presumed lost until 1978, when a single handwritten copy of the script was discovered the text has since been published in both French and English. Contemporary critics gave the play mixed reviews in general, the spectacular staging and the use of ideas from Verne's books were highly praised, while the symbolism and moral themes in the script were criticized and attributed to the collaboration of d'Ennery. The play opened in Paris at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin on 25 November 1882, and achieved a financially successful run of 97 performances.
VERNE NEMO SERIES
The play is deeply influenced by Verne's own Voyages Extraordinaires series and includes characters and themes from some of his most famous novels, including Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and From the Earth to the Moon. A stage spectacular in the féerie tradition, the play follows the adventures of a young man who, with the help of a magic potion and a varied assortment of friends and advisers, makes impossible voyages to the center of the Earth, the bottom of the sea, and a distant planet. Journey Through the Impossible ( French: Voyage à travers l'impossible) is an 1882 fantasy play written by Jules Verne, with the collaboration of Adolphe d'Ennery. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Captain Nemo helped to educate people about the importance of preserving life under the sea.An 1882 engraving from L'Illustration, showing scenes and characters from the play Jules Verne published the book around 1870, and at that time, not much was known about marine ecology. He was a scientist and an explorer, and was courageous enough to explore a place that no one had seen at that time. Nemo allows them inside the submarine and proceeds to take them on a global adventure under the ocean.Ĭaptain Nemo is a hero because he designed and built The Nautilus himself. Instead, they discover that the sea monster is actually The Nautilus, captained by Nemo. His world is discovered when a French scientist, his servant, and a harpooner named Ned Land set out to search for a terrible sea monster that is sinking ships, especially warships. He had abandoned his life on land to explore the deep sea. Robert Ballard's hero.Ĭaptain Nemo was an explorer who used his submarinecraft, The Nautilus, to navigate through an amazing underwater world. Captain Nemo, a character from Jules Verne's fiction book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, is Dr.
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