The gaps between the worker class and owner/wealthy upper class in the novels and movie that we watched is getting interesting. Technology may be a factor but what’s standing is the gaps, at first Granville, and Shelly their was just an upper class doing what it wanted with science or telling the future. But now […]
If there’s anything I could assume about society at the time of the publication of The Begums Millions, it’s that attitudes then were very similar to common attitudes in modern day America. The plot of the book mainly revolves around fervent Nationalism that seems almost childish. Doctor Sarrasin as well as Max are depicted as […]
In the Begum’s Millions by Jules Verne technological advance has quite an impact on the story. In the city of Frankville the changes in understanding germs and sanitation have a significant impact on the city structure. Keeping political influence out of it the city of Frankville is heavily influenced by biological discovery. The city has […]
In class, and while reading The Begum’s Millions, by Julies Verne, I saw multiple occasions to Greek Myth and legend. Shultze’s counterpart would be the God of Destruction or Death,Hades or Thantos (same as the Marvel God of Death, but he’s insane, well Schultz is kind of insane to0.) Thantos, portrayed in Marvel, is insane […]
Throughout The Begum’s Millions there are many stereotypes presented and Verne presents themes of nationalism frequently. One stereotype of Germans is portrayed by Herr Schultz as, “Those sausages in sauerkraut were delicious, were they not?…I wonder how people who have neither sausages, nor sauerkraut, nor beer, can endure existence.”1 This common stereotype of Germans only […]
My initial response to picking up the “self published” copy that most of us had to read interests me. This is one of those rare cases that you can judge a book by its cover. Total self-fulfilling prophecy. If I saw this in a book store I flip through just because the cover is […]
I just lost a 512 word post because the website timed out. There was no way I would have been able to save it after clicking the publish button. This is a cautionary tale: safe as draft is your friend. This website sucks in a fantastic, incredible way. What was I talking about? Crap… Here’s […]
One recurring aspect throughout Verne’s novel is the theme of efficiency. Let it be known that if any one nationality were to be picked for representing this particular attribute, it would undoubtedly be the Germans. Germans, aside from their undying love for beer and bratwurst, are known throughout the world as being the keepers […]
A remarkable thing about The Begum’s Millions is that the 1870 era it was written in is not that much different from today. Verne could be writing this book today and it would look the same. Chemical and Germ warfare was ahead of Verne’s time, but is something that is very present today. The guns and the […]
I really enjoyed reading Jules Verne’s The Begum’s Millions. However, I did not enjoy the tenth chapter of the novel. When I read over all of the rules that the citizens of Frankvile needed to adhere to live in Frankville, I was a bit angry about it. I find no difference in Dr. Sarrasin’s Frankville […]
Although I enjoyed Jules Verne’s The Begum’s Millions, perhaps a little because of it’s predictable action, I finished the lasts few chapters with a sense of disappointment. I feel that the story line became too melodramatic for me. Max escapes just in time to save the city and world from mass destruction, marries the daughter […]
While reading The Begum’s Millions, I found it very interesting that Jules Verne wrote a modern technology and a demographic shift into his story. The book was published in 1879, so it was not that historical to him at the time. Reading this book over 130 years later though and you are able to see […]
France-Ville is meant to be a sort of utopia on American soil. It’s very clean and orderly and the people are frequently described as being healthy and happy. However, a deeper look beneath the surface reveals something much more chilling about Sarrasin’s perfect society.
In fan fiction, there is a particular phrase that defines ill-written charters: “Mary Sue”, and the male equivalent “Marty Stu”. A Mary Sue is a character, according to Wikipedia, is simply “an idealized character” (Mary Sue). Typically, this means a character who is beautiful, smart, strong, and embodies all the good values that should exist […]
For a long time in American history, the western territories were seen as something not quite fully discovered, especially when Jules Verne published “The Begum’s Millions” in 1879. Even though it had been 70-odd years since the Louisiana Purchase, where the United States bought a majority of what is now American mainland from the French, […]
Nationalism, somehow things always come back around to nationalism and for some reason it actually makes sense. What is meant by that it that the nationalistic views in this book are important to the plot and development of the novel. In fact nationalism seems to be the driving force especially since the professors motivations are […]
I think that an interesting point was brought up in class; Jules Verne’s novel The Begum’s Millions, though science fiction at the forefront, has realist elements in it, and I think that the same can be said for most science fiction, because it does have a fact-based element to it. How things tend to be […]
At the beginning of chapter three of The Begum’s Millions there is some musings Dr. Sarrasin has that I found very interesting. He is saying that he is more poor than Lord Glandover, he is insignificant in the eyes of him and the lord doesn’t take him seriously or care too much for him. Glandover is […]
An interesting thing that was brought up in class was the fact that this sci-fi book was written in the realist period. Considering that the ‘fi’ part of ‘sci-fi’ stands for ‘fiction’, this is a bit dissonant. But, looking deeper than the literal definitions, it becomes immediately apparent that almost all modern science fiction is based primarily in […]
In Jules Verne’s The Begum’s Millions Dr. Sarrasin and Prof. Schultz split an inheritance of 21 million pounds sterling. In today’s market that is roughly 33.5 million dollars. Because both men and science driven; Dr. Sarrasin is a scientist focusing on hygiene and Prof. Schultz teaches chemistry at University of Jena. Due to the […]
When reading Jules Verne’s The Begum’s Millions, I was very interested in the societies that Dr. Sarrasin and Professor Schultze have created. While we aren’t very far into the novel and we really don’t have that great of an in depth look at these new societies. One thing is for certain that Dr. Sarrasin’s society […]