Character Analysis of Phileas Fogg in around the World in Eighty Days, a Novel by Jules Verne Essay

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne begins in England and follows the life of Phileas Fogg. Fogg goes to a Reform Club every night on one particular night, he visits the club to play cards. The men belonging to the Reform Club begin a conversation about the idea whether you can travel around the world in eighty days or not. Fogg accepts this as a challenge.The books focuses around Foggs character development (1). Fogg is very intelligent and quite precise he has particular routines he follows daily. He is commonly considered eccentric and peculiar. If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity. (2) He is a large-hearted person, however he seems incapable of love. While in India, he suggests that his group saves the Indian princess, Aouda. Following their success, Aouda is appreciative for her rescue she eventually falls in love with Fogg. Due to the fact that he is seemingly incapable of love (he does not display his emotions well), she becomes discouraged. Overtime, Foggs priorites change it becomes more important to him to win Aoudass love than to win the challenge (1). He admits his love for her once they returned to London .Foggs recognizes him character development as a positive change in his life. But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey? Nothing, you say? Perhaps so nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men! Truly, would you not for less than that make the tour around the world? (2) He tells Passepartout (his personal valet) that they might have gone around the world in seventy eight days but adds to that, "But if I had not gone through India I should not have saved Aouda, she would not have been...

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