Characters from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Character Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major characters in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Characters

Captain Nemo - A man so hurt by life that he has retreated into a world of his own making and one that he can totally control.

Pierre Aronnax - A professor of biology and the natural sciences, he is about forty-years-old and a true scientist and intellectual.

Ned Land - He is the man of action, a person most comfortable doing rather than thinking who relishes his life and physical pleasures like the eating of meat and the feel of sea air.

Conseil - A Flemish man about thirty-years-old who has been...
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