Analysis of setting

Analysis of setting

The story begins in 1866 and ends in 1868. The nautilus goes through the Arctic, Atlantic, Red, Mediterranean, Indian, pacific, and Antarctic oceans and seas. All the action in twenty thousand leagues under the sea starts in new York in the spring of 1867 and finishes over a year later in northern Norway.

The story carries its protagonists across the surface of the globe , to the south pole and back, and far down in the depths of different oceans and seas. The nautilus it self is the true setting of the novel; it is the  imaginative  device that makes the action in this novel possible. Designed by captain nemo, the electrically powered nautilus is two or three hundred feet long, capable of speeds far greater than surface ships of those times, and able to dive great depths. It is large enough to contain  a museum of oceanic research, a library, and even an organ, played by nemo.  

“strike, mad vessel! Shower your useless shot! And the, you will not escape the spur of the nautilus.” –captain nemo

This is an example of nemos madness and how he was on the submarine.