Introduction to "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" and author's introduction

In 1866, a large monster thought to be a narwhal was discovered at sea. French biologist Aaron Nass was invited to participate in the hunt. During the hunt, Aronas, his servant Conseil, and harpooner Ned Land discovered that the monster was not a narwhal, but a submarine with a wonderful structure.

The submarine captain Nemo is a mysterious figure of unknown nationality who claims to have "cut ties with all mankind." He is tall and has a confident and determined look. Nemo invited Aronas to visit this amazing masterpiece of modern industry, the Nautilus; it uses waves to generate electricity to supply heat, light, and power to the ship; everything it needs is taken from the ocean. It was built secretly by Nemo on a desert island in the ocean.

Aronas and his companions took the Nautilus and set out from the Pacific Ocean to embark on an undersea exploration trip. Through the glass window of the submarine, the ocean presented all kinds of bizarre sights to them: all kinds of undersea plants, various fishes like birds in the air, and all kinds of arthropods and molluscs everywhere... It was dizzying for people to see. They watched and studied.

After that, the submarine experienced dangers such as stranding and siege by natives, and sailed safely to the Indian Ocean. At this time a strange thing happened. Captain Nemo saw something from the sea and was suddenly filled with anger and hatred. He roughly confined Aronas and his companions in a small room and forced them to sleep alone. The next day, Aronas woke up and Captain Nemo asked him to treat a seriously injured crew member.

The crew member died of his injuries. Captain Nemo sadly led the funeral procession and buried the deceased in the dazzling and magnificent coral forest on the seabed. The island of Ceylon at the southern tip of the Indian peninsula is in front of us. Aronas accepted Captain Nemo's suggestion and walked to the seabed pearl quarry. Suddenly, a giant shark rushed toward the pearl divers. Captain Nemo, holding a dagger in his hand, stood up to fight the shark. When Captain Nemo was overwhelmed by the huge body of the shark and was in danger, Ned Land quickly threw a sharp fork and hit the heart of the shark.

The captain rescued the poor pearl diver and took out a bag of pearls from his pocket and gave it to him. From this, Aronas felt that there were two things worth noting about Nemo: one was his incomparable bravery, and the other was his spirit of sacrifice for mankind. It seems that this weird man has not completely cut off his love for human beings.

From the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, if you take the Cape of Good Hope, you need to go around Africa. But Captain Nemo sneaked along an Arabian submarine passage he discovered, and in less than twenty minutes, he passed through the Isthmus of Suey and reached the Mediterranean Sea.

The submarine sailed towards Kandy Island. At this time, another strange thing happened: With the appearance of a diver in front of the submarine window in the early morning, Captain Nemo took out millions of gold from the cabinet, wrote the address, and sent someone to send it away in a small boat. Where to send all this gold? Aronas felt that the mysterious Nemo still had some connection with the land.

The submarine passed through the boiling water in the volcanic area of ​​​​Sandolin Island, emerged from the Strait of Gibraltar, sailed to the Atlantic Ocean, and stopped at the bottom of Vito Bay. This was a naval battlefield in 1702. At that time, a ship carrying gold and silver to the Spanish government sank here, and the seabed was covered with gold and silver jewelry. Nemo sent his crew to load millions of gold and silver into the submarine. Aronas expressed regret that this much wealth could not be distributed to the poor.

At the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, Aronas went on a novel trip with Captain Nemo; they stepped on a sunken continent, a peak in Atlantic Ocean, and watched the submarine eruption of a volcano. The spectacle of fire spitting out brimstone and flint. Looking at a ruined city at the foot of the mountain - a whole Pompeii sunk under the water.

Then the Nautilus boldly headed for the Antarctic, the submarine sailing among pods of whales. Ned Land asked to chase the whale. Minister Nemo disagrees with harming these kind and harmless fin whales. When a cruel whale appears on the sea and attacks the fin whale, Captain Nemo decides to rescue the fin whale. The Nautilus used its steel horn to drive straight through the whale. After a fierce battle, the sea was filled with the bodies of large whales.

After crossing the South Pole, the submarine also experienced dangers such as iceberg road closures and octopus attacks. Captain Nemo led the crew to overcome difficulties with his amazing calmness and perseverance. Finally, the submarine sailed through the warm Atlantic current known as the King of Storms and came to the site where a French patriotic battleship sank. Nemo told the history of the "Vengeance" battleship with passion.

When the Nautilus slowly returned to the sea, there was an explosion: a battleship was launching an attack on the Nautilus. Captain Nemo was determined to sink it. The captain did not want the wreck of the battleship to be mixed up with the glorious wreck of the "Vengeance", so he steered the battleship east. The next day, the terrible blow began!

The Nautilus deliberately allowed the enemy to approach, and then, under the powerful push of the propeller, used its powerful angle of attack to aim at the weak spot below the battleship's buoy line and pass across it! In an instant, the hull of the battleship cracked, then exploded and sank rapidly. Its masts were crowded with victims. Then, the dark giant submerged into the water, and together with it, the group of dead bodies were swept away by the extremely powerful whirlpool...

In the dangerous waters off the coast of Norway, Aronas and Ned? Lan and Conseil left the Nautilus in a small boat and ended their 20,000-mile undersea journey through the Pacific, Indian Ocean, Red Sea, Mediterranean, and the North and South Poles.

It turns out that Captain Nemo was the prince of Dhaka, India. When he was 10 years old, his father sent him to Europe to receive an education and prepare to succeed the throne in the future. The prince of Dhaka is talented and intelligent. From the age of 10 to 30, he accumulated knowledge in all aspects and had outstanding talents in the fields of science, literature and art. In 1849, the prince of Dhaka returned to his homeland. He married an Indian noble girl as his wife. They had two children together, and the couple loved them very much.

Like other enslaved Indians, the Prince of Dhaka was a patriot. He loved his motherland and hated the British colonists who enslaved and exploited India. In 1857, the prince of Dhaka organized several large-scale anti-colonial resistance movements. In every fierce battle, he always takes the lead and stands at the forefront of the battle. For this reason, the Prince of Dhaka has won the support and love of the majority of Indian people.

The British colonists hated him and tried every possible means to kill him. To escape his enemies, he had to flee his homeland. However, his wife and children were brutally killed by the enemy. The prince of Dhaka was full of hatred for his enemies. He took his remaining property and a group of friends loyal to him and suddenly disappeared one day.

From then on, there was no more Prince Dhaka in the world. He has become disgusted with everything human beings and is full of hostility to all injustices in the civilized world. He vowed never to return to his homeland. He wants to establish his permanent habitat in the depths of the ocean where people cannot track him.

The Prince of Dhaka established a shipyard on a desert island in the Pacific. With his strong financial strength and superhuman wisdom, he personally designed and built a submarine that was unique in the world. After that, he burned the desert island on fire. He used sodium in seawater, a unique invention that Prince Dhaka predicted would be realized by humans in the future, to create universal electricity. With electricity, his submarine has an inexhaustible power.

There are inexhaustible treasures buried in the depths of the ocean, providing sufficient financial resources and materials for all his activities. From then on, he called himself Captain Nemo. He named his submarine the Nautilus (also translated as the Nautilus) and hid it in the depths of the ocean without anyone noticing.

The author Jules Verne is a famous French science fiction and adventure novelist in the 19th century. He is known as the "Father of Modern Science Fiction". He has written "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "Grant" "The Captain's Children", "Journey to the Center of the Earth", "Around the World in Eighty Days" and other famous science fiction novels. He believed in science throughout his life and was a rare science writer.

Verne was born in Nantes on February 8, 1828. In 1848, he went to Paris to study law and wrote short stories and plays. Starting in 1863, he began to publish science fiction adventure novels, which became famous under the general title "Strange Wanderings in the Known and Unknown World". Representative works include the trilogy "Captain Grant's Children", "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" and "The Mysterious Island".

General Verne created sixty-six novels or collections of short stories, as well as several plays, a "Geography of France" and a six-volume "The Great Journey" Home and the Great History of Travel.” His major works include "Friday in a Balloon", "Journey to the Center of the Earth", "Machine Island", "The Lost Peninsula", "Around the World in Eighty Days" and more than 20 full-length science fiction adventure novels.

Verne loved science and fantasy since childhood, but he studied law in college.

Originally, he planned to become a lawyer after graduation. Later, he accidentally met the famous writer Alexandre Dumas, and with the latter's encouragement, he turned to literary creation.

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Verne’s stories are vivid and humorous, full of witty remarks, and can inspire people, especially teenagers, to love science and yearn for adventure. Therefore, for more than a hundred years, It has been welcomed by readers all over the world. According to UNESCO, Verne is one of the top ten famous writers with the most translated works in the world. ?

Verne is a very good writer of popular novels. He has the ability to make his illusions tangible. His feeling is all-round, conveying a certain kind of fantasy from ordinary literature. Human passion. But the characters in Verne's novels are all the same except for a few. He seems to be unable to create more important characters. The characters are all simple good guys and bad guys with facial makeup and no psychological activities.

From the single-gender gender of the characters in his works, we can also see his prejudice against women, which vaguely reveals his suffering mentality. In addition, Verne's works are full of obvious social tendencies. He was a patriot (the French are the best), a national liberationist (supporting the struggles of oppressed nations), and to some extent an anarchist (from Shown as anarchist in some works), and finally a galactic imperialist (with the desire to create a cosmic empire). ?

Verne's works are full of knowledge, but he himself was a cosmic mystic and had a mysterious worship of the world. In his novels, sometimes the thinking is not profound enough, and the themes are often repeated. ?

But overall, Verne's attempt is still great. Although what he writes about are ordinary and trivial matters, they still make us excited after reading them. As the Pope said when he met with Verne in 1884: "I am not ignorant of the scientific value of your works, but what I value most is their purity, moral value and spiritual power."

Many scientists have admitted that they were inspired by Verne to embark on the path of scientific exploration. The first sentence of Simon Lake, the inventor of the submarine, in his autobiography was "Jules Verne is the general guide of my life's work"; Rear Admiral Byrd said after flying over the North Pole that Verne was his The leader; the balloon and deep-sea explorer Piccard, and the inventor of radio Markney all agreed that Verne was the person who inspired their inventions.

Reference 1: Baidu Encyclopedia-Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Reference 2: Baidu Encyclopedia-Jules Verne