Literary Devices in Around the World in Eighty Days
Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
Setting
Phileas Fogg makes his home in the Richie Rich part of London. All bets are off for the setting when he accepts the wager, though, as the whole world becomes Jules Verne's literary playground. Most...
Narrator Point of View
Third Person (Omniscient)Around the World in Eighty Days is definitely a story about Phileas Fogg, but Jules Verne's involvement as narrator almost makes him one of the characters. We see many thin...
Genre
As adventures go, Jules Verne should fall directly between The Goonies and Jumanji. While not exactly a Hollywood box-office thriller, Jules Verne delivers his own exciting story about a man, a goa...
Tone
Just like the feelings we get when packing our bags to take an epic trip to grandma's house, the excitement is non-stop in Around the World in Eighty Days. As soon as Phileas Fogg and Passepartout...
Writing Style
When we say "high," we mean high vocabulary. Another word that comes to mind is snooty. Jules Verne isn't one to use two words when fifty will do, and he does it with all the flair of a Victorian g...
What's Up With the Title?
Yep, Around the World in Eighty Days sort of means what it says: Phileas Fogg is going around the world in eighty days. Not seventy-seven, not eighty-four, just plain eighty. If he can do this, he'...
What's Up With the Ending?
"Truly, would you not for less than that make the tour around the world?" (37.14). Well, when you put it like that, Jules Verne—heck yeah, we would. The ending of the novel goes from warp speed t...
Tough-o-Meter
We can see the forest for the trees, though it doesn't take a jungle expert to notice Jules Verne is pretty darn hard to read. But that's our point: He's hard to read. The high vocabulary and 1800s...
Plot Analysis
In which a man with a gambling problem takes a betOne day in London 1872, Phileas Fogg, confirmed bachelor with OCD, is playing whist in his club with several dudes. Phileas bets that he could to...
Three-Act Plot Analysis
Act I goes from Chapter 1 to Chapter 4, and it goes something like this: One day in London Phileas Fogg, confirmed bachelor with OCD, is playing whist in his club with several dudes. He explains th...
Trivia
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Steaminess Rating
We don't even get a smooch in this novel. Fogg and Aouda are a typical Victorian couple and prefer to keep their feelings tucked away out of sight. Their most epic display of affection is holding h...
Allusions
Lord Byron (1.1)Minerva (2.5)Moliere (2.5)King Solomon (9.8)Kali (11.9; 12.12)Ucaf Uddaul (12.6)Vishnu, Shiva, Brahma (14.17) Long Noses of the god Tingou (23.13, 23.18-20)Abraham (27.10)Amphion'...