Analysis of Setting

The Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea novel begins in New York during the spring time in around 1867 and finishes over a year after in northern Norway. The story takes its protagonists across the globe to the South Pole and back, and into the depths of the oceans. The Nautilus (submarine) is the actual setting of the novel; it is the most imaginative object that brings action to the story. The submarine is designed by Captain Nemo it is electrically powered and is two or three hundred feet long, has more speed than any great ships of the day back then. It is big enough to hold a museum of ‘oceanic research‘, a library, and even an organ that is played by Nemo. The Nautilus’s crewmen can work underwater outside the ship.