In the novel, Verne expressed his admiration and love for the sea through Captain Nemo's mouth: "I love the sea! The sea is everything! It covers seven-tenths of the earth, and the air exhaled by the sea is clean and healthy. The sea is vast, and man will not be lonely here, because he can feel the surging life around him.
The sea is a supernatural and magical carrier of life. It is movement, love and, as a poet said, boundless life. It can be said that the ocean was first formed on the earth. Who knows if the ocean will remain when the earth disappears? The sea is the supreme peace. "
Verne constructed a fantastic underwater world for readers, where there are amazing landscapes and all kinds of creatures. Under the guidance of Captain Nemo, he went hunting under the sea, visited the submarine forest of Crespo Island, collected pearls from the Indian Ocean, visited the ruins of Atlantis under the sea, salvaged the treasure of the Spanish shipwreck and witnessed the funeral of the coral kingdom.
All kinds of dangerous plots show the indomitable excellent quality of human beings and the unremitting pioneering spirit of human beings. He put forward the possibility of developing the deep sea and encouraged people to explore the deep underwater world.
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Creation background
The brutal suppression of the Polish people's uprising against the czar's dictatorship was a fuse for Verne's creation of Two Wan Li under the Sea. In his novels, he created Captain Nemo, a tall figure who opposed the autocratic rule of the czar, and endowed him with a strong sense of social responsibility and humanitarian spirit to express his criticism of reality.
At the beginning of writing the novel, there was an argument between Verne and Hersel, the publisher, about the characteristics of Nemo, the captain of the Nautilus. Hersel thought that Nemo should be described as the mortal enemy of the slave trade, providing a clear and ideal defense for his ruthless attack on some ships at sea.
But Verne hoped that Nemo was a Polish, and he never forgave his hatred to the Russian czar (he had brutally suppressed a Polish uprising). However, Hersel was worried that he would cause diplomatic differences and make the book banned in the lucrative Russian market.
Finally, the author and publisher gradually compromised with each other. They thought that Nemo's real motivation should be ambiguous to be attractive, and Nemo should be roughly positioned as a supporter of freedom and an avenger against oppression. In Mysterious Island, it was announced that he was the prince of Dhaka, India.
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