Around the World in Eighty Days

A major bank robbery has rocked the nation. A gentleman thief has broken into the Bank of England and made off with a substantial sum of money. The daring heist is the talk of the Reform Club,...

The climax of a story is the point in the story where tensions are highest. It represents a turning point in the story, and it is often the moment when the main conflict is at its peak. Fogg has...

Setting is generally the time and place of a story. The time is the easier setting to define for this story. Fogg begins his journey around the world in October of 1872. He begins his journey from...

Phileas Fogg is an eccentric English gentleman living in Victorian London. He's quite a character: a phenomenally wealthy man whose source of income is something of a mystery to his numerous...

Princess Aouda has been recently widowed, and at that time in India, it was customary for a widow to join her late husband's corpse on the funeral pyre. This was an ancient tradition called suttee,...

Resourceful: Phileas Fogg doesn't let unexpected obstacles deter him. For example, when the railroad tracks all of a sudden end in India before he gets to his destination, Fogg buys an elephant and...

In Inspector Fix's long experience as a policeman, all serious thieves are gentlemen. And the man who carried out the daring raid on the Bank of England is no exception. His crime has all the...

Jules Verne published his story Around the World in Eighty Days in 1873. While traveling across India, the protagonist Phileas Fogg and his valet Jean Passepartout discover a funeral ritual. The...

Phileas Fogg does not actually change much during the course of the novel. He starts out as a precise, very methodical man, wedded to etiquette and proper manners, and ends the novel without...

I'm sure that Fogg knows how he made his own fortune (or inherited it); however, Fogg, the narrator, or a different character never explains to readers exactly how he became so wealthy. Fogg is a...

The basic conflict relates to the bet: can Phileas Fogg travel the world in eighty days? Fogg is confident that he can, but it's by no means a sure thing, as he subsequently discovers. The world...

Phileas Fogg is the protagonist of Jules Verne’s famous novel Around the World in Eighty Days. Fogg begins the story living in London, England. As he is living a relatively banal existence, Fogg’s...

At Suez, Phileas Fogg and Passepartout board a steamer bound for Bombay. Also with them is the doggedly determined Inspector Fix, hot on the heels of a notorious bank robber who bears more than a...

Passepartout, Fogg's servant, ends up separated from Fogg, Aouda, and Detective Fix. (Fix tricks Passepartout and gets him drunk and allows him to be drugged with opium.) This dilemma once again...

Yes, Phileas Fogg was rich. Was Phileas Fogg rich? Undoubtedly. But those who knew him best could not imagine how he had made his fortune, and Mr. Fogg was the last person to whom to apply for...

Fogg accepts Stuart's challenge because he's something of an eccentric. Accepting such a crazy bet is the kind of behavior we'd expect from someone as unusual as himself. The bet also appeals to...

Passepartout first met Detective Fix quite by accident. The date was Wednesday, the 9th of October, and Fix was in Suez, awaiting the arrival of the steamer Mongolia. Fix was "one of the...

Phileas Fogg is at the Reform Club, discussing a recent sensational crime with a chap called Ralph. A man has stolen a considerable sum of money—£55,000, no less—from the Bank of England in London....

Passepartout acts as a dramatic foil for Phileas Fogg. A dramatic foil is a character who is in direct contrast with the main character so as to magnify certain traits in the main character. For...

Although when we first meet him, Mr. Fogg seems to be a very odd man—his regularity is so extreme as to make one wonder if he has Asperger's or autism—he proves himself to be a man of exemplary...

French author Jules Verne (1828–1905) wrote Around the World in Eighty Days as part of a very popular series of meticulously researched adventure novels called Voyages extraordinaires. The...

Satī, often spelled and pronounced "suttee," is a banned funeral practice of Indian cultures. The practice consisted of a widow voluntarily burning herself alive on her dead husband's funeral pyre;...

Allahabad was between Bombay and Calcutta. Fogg was to take a Great Indian Peninsula Railway train from Bombay to Calcutta; the journey was to take three days by train. ...Leaving Bombay, it...

Phileas Fogg first meets Jean Passepartout in the very first chapter of Around the World in Eighty Days. Vernes writes that the year is 1872. Passepartout had arrived at Phileas' fashionable home...

A fateful conversation in the Reform Club takes place in chapter 3 of Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days. Not long after he has hired Jean Passepartout as his new valet, Phileas Fogg...

People like Passepartout for a variety of reasons. Mainly, he has so many likable traits that it is next to impossible not to like him. Even traits that might be slightly annoying tend to make him...

In Yokohama, Mr. Fix finally gets the warrant of arrest he has been seeking for Phileas Fogg. Mr. Fix, a detective, is convinced that Fogg is a wanted bank robber, and has been pursuing him around...

The importance of the Sioux attack in Chapter 29 of this novel is that it prevents yet another complication that Fogg faces in the completion of his quest. Although Fogg, Fix and Adoua are fine, it...

Phileas Fogg is a very wealthy man, yet he leads a relatively modest lifestyle. For him, money is simply a means to an end, something that gives him the opportunity to indulge his eccentric...

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The tireless Inspector Fix of Scotland Yard is hot on the heels of Phileas Fogg, wrongly believing him to be a thief who's robbed the Bank of England. Fix is motivated to catch Fogg, not just by...

Without a more specific story location in mind, the answer to this question could be several different situations. Additionally, "unhappy" could mean a wide variety of things. Passepartout's...

When Phileas Fogg makes the sudden decision to take on the challenge of traversing the world in eighty days, he has no time to lose. Therefore, he decides to take very little with him in the way of...

Phileas Fogg is a great character. He's not as awesome as Passepartout, but he's still a fun character to read. He is fun to read because of how unbelievably cool and calm he always is. Readers...

Phileas Fogg and his hapless partner, Passepartout, rescue young Aouda from the funeral pyre of her late husband, planning to find her a home with a suitable relative. None are to be found in the...

One of the demonstrable differences in Fix during these chapters is the way in which he moves from being a force that tries to oppose Fogg from a hidden vantage point to a character that befriends...

Phileas Fogg is the protagonist of Around the World in Eighty Days, as his actions, thoughts, and fate have the most bearing on the story. He is an English gentleman of immense wealth and a keen...

In a long stream of historical allusions, Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) is the first personage Verne uses to add substance and believability to his fanciful tale. Sheridan was the owner of...

Speed and accuracy are also themes in this novel. In the end, Fogg brings back with him, not only the love of a woman, but the promise of what science will bring, and his mission to set out to...

After arriving in Bombay by steamer, Phineas Fogg goes directly to the passport office to take care of that detail. Then, without stopping to see any of the amazing sights in Bombay, he proceeds...

Phileas Fogg, Detective Fix, and John Bunsby, "master of the Tankadere", are headed for Shanghai from Hong Kong. Fogg, who has missed the Carnatic, the ship on which he was originally supposed to...

Jules Verne's 1872 novel Around the World in Eighty Days is an adventure story about a rather peculiar English gentleman, Phileas Fogg, who surprises all those who know him by wagering with his...

Because he appeared to have no financial, social, and political interests in the city, it was doubted that Phileas Fogg was a Londoner. For example, Phileas was never seen at the Royal Exchange or...

By that part of the novel, Passepartout has been separated from Phileas Fogg. That is a big problem in general, but the immediate problem is that Passepartout does not carry money around like Fogg...

Jules Verne had a love of travel, visiting over a dozen countries during his lifetime. While his means of travel were simple -- train and steamship -- he loved to speculate about new and exciting...

Fogg is described as follows: Phileas Fogg was one of those mathematically precise beings who, never in a hurry and always ready, are economical in their steps and movements. He never made an...

Mr. Francis decided to rescue the widow. Sir Francis Cromarty, a corpsman, was traveling across India by elephant with Phileas Fogg and Passepartout when they came upon an elaborate funeral...

In chapter 4 of Around The World in Eighty Days two men are promenading up and down the wharves of Suez, in eager anticipation of the imminent arrival of the steamship Mongolia. One of the men is...

Hello! In Around The World In Eighty Days, Phileas Fogg is a wealthy man of means who lives a bachelor life; he is served by his man-servant, Passepartout. Together, they embark upon their...

Jules Verne’s novel Around the World in 80 Days is a travel adventure story, but it has elements of multiple genres. Although the novel is not as futuristic as some of Verne’s other works, the...