LITERARY
ANALYSIS OF THE ROUND TO THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
A) ACTION:
BASIC
SITUATION: a day, the protagonist, Phileas Fogg, decides to bet that it would
be able to turn the world in 80 days. Fogg is a "white knight"
extremely timely and accurate and, with the help of his French butler, is able
to make the voyage.
He takes
with him his servant Passepartout, a lot of money ( £100,000 at the time) and
really want to win the bet. But, in London, a few days before the departure of
Fogg, steals the Bank of England. Then, taking into account the amount of money
that Fogg was carrying with him and his sudden exit, the detective Fix suspicion
of Fogg and going in his search, traveling around the world in the same trains
or ships that the traveler did.
* CLĂMAX:
Fogg travels to incredible places, citing India, the United States, etc. , in
India, Fogg finds the love of his life, Aouda, a princess who was about to be
burned by brahmaneses who practiced cremation of widows, in honor of the
goddess Kali.
In the end
he is arrested by the detective Fix, who aim to achieve through his entire
journey with the hope of catching him to win the reward for his capture, is
delayed for a few hours.
* OUTCOME:
being released after verification of their innocence, has lost the hopes of
winning the bet and is resigned to losing, when the following day is informed
by his servant that it is not the day that he believed, because they had
travelled the world to the inverse of its rotation, they had won 24 hours in
advance, so that was presented at the Reform Club with his colleagues to claim
the money of the bet.
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