The Nautilus 's library, lounge, and art collections reveal that Nemo is intimately acquainted with European culture, also that he's an accomplished performer on the organ. Aronnax praises the captain's French, noting that he 'expressed himself with perfect ease and without any accent.' Relying on his intuition and knowledge of ethnology, the professor concludes that 'there's southern blood' in him but can't determine the captain's exact origin. In his first meeting with Professor Aronnax and his companions, the three castaways speak to him in French, English, Latin, and German Nemo later reveals that he is fluent in all of these tongues. Like many actual Indian princes of the era, Nemo received a Western education, during which, as he states, he spent his youth touring and studying throughout Europe. Nemo claims to have no interest in terrestrial affairs but occasionally intervenes to aid people in distress, e.g., by giving salvaged treasure to participants in the Cretan Revolt (1866–1869) against the island's Turkish rulers by saving (both physically and financially) a Ceylonese or Tamil pearl diver from a shark attack by rescuing the castaways in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas and by covertly protecting another set of castaways in The Mysterious Island. They gather bullion from various shipwrecks in the ocean, most notably from the hulks of the Spanish treasure fleet sunk during the Battle of Vigo Bay. After the Indian Rebellion of 1857, in which Dakkar lost both his family and his kingdom, the prince devoted himself to scientific research, ultimately building the Nautilus and cruising the seven seas with a crew of devoted followers. In The Mysterious Island, Captain Nemo identifies himself as Prince Dakkar, son of the Hindu raja of Bundelkhand, and a descendant of the Muslim Sultan Fateh Ali Khan Tipu of the Kingdom of Mysore, famous for the Anglo-Mysore Wars (1767–1799) and Mysorean rocket technology. Monteleone's The Secret Sea and Howard Rodman's The Great Eastern.Ĭaptain Nemo's death in The Mysterious IslandĬhief among the few details of Nemo's history given in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas are his hatred of imperialism and his grief over the loss of his loved ones in years past. Anderson's Captain Nemo: The Fantastic History of a Dark Genius, Thomas F. He has also been appropriated by other authors for their own novels, including Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Philip José Farmer's The Other Log of Phileas Fogg, Kevin J. Nemo has appeared in various film adaptations of Verne's novels, where he has been portrayed by such celebrated actors as James Mason, Herbert Lom, Patrick Stewart, Naseeruddin Shah, Ben Cross, and Michael Caine. The captain is consumed by a hunger for vengeance and hatred of imperialism the British Empire is ultimately revealed as his main antagonist. A scientific visionary, he roams the depths of the seas in his submarine, the Nautilus, which was assembled from parts manufactured in several different countries, then shipped to a cover address. Though originally of unknown nationality, he is later described as the son of an Indian raja. He also makes a brief appearance in a play written by Verne with the collaboration of Adolphe d'Ennery, Journey Through the Impossible (1882). Nemo appears in two of Verne's science-fiction classics, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870) and The Mysterious Island (1875). Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870)Ĭaptain Nemo ( / ˈ n iː m oʊ/ later identified as an Indian, Prince Dakkar) is a fictional character created by the French novelist Jules Verne (1828–1905).

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