4.3 Around the World in Eighty Days -Notes

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 4.3 Around the World in Eighty Days

Activities- 

A.1 Write four to five sentences on the "Morality" theme of the extract given to your study from the novel around the World in 80 days.

Ans- A moral value that we can learn from the chapter given to our study is 'courage'. It is really courageous on the part of Phileas Fogg to accept the wager to travel Around the World in 80 days and it is that courage that helps him to win it. Aouda from the people who were going to put her on pyre with the help of Passportout. If not for courage Fogg would not win the wager and also gain a wife and loyal sevant. This teaches that courage is an important moral value. Another example of of morality is seen in Fix detective through he was following Phileas Fogg thinking that he was a robber of the bank, he did not arrest him till the time he received the arrest warrant. After arrest when he realises that the actual culprit of bank robbery is already called three days before, he immediately goes to Custom House and apologizes about his mistake and free for immediately. At the end of the novel when Fogg marries with  Aouda shows Fogg's selfless love towards Aouda and his moral responsibility towards him.


A.2 Give a brief character sketch of Passportout based on the extract given to your study from the novel 'Around the World in  Eighty days'.

Ans-In the journey Passepartout plays a critical role in Fogg's adventures search as a screen for Young woman named Aouda from a forced Sati and becoming a friend of Fix, a police detective you suspects Fogg of robbing a bank. Passepartout learns of Fix's suspicious, but keeps them to himself as he believes Fogg already has enough to worry about concerning his wager. Due to his silence, however, Fogg and Fix never have a chance to discuss the case,  and Fix arrest Fogg as soon as the return to England. This critically delays Fogg before he is exonerated and the company arrive in London, seemingly too late and leaving Passepartout in almora suicide despair at his foolishness. The next day at home, Aouda propses to Fogg to help him in his hard life ahead. While searching for a father of church to marry the couple, Passepartout discover that the date is one day earlier then he thought, due to Fogg and others having travelled East across the International Date Line. Once Fogg learns of the error, he sashes to the Reform Club and arrives just in time to win the bet. The character of Passportout serves several for purposes in the novel.


A.3 Justice is served/ done in the end Explain.

Ans- Phineas Fogg is a central character or protogonist of the novel. He accepts  a wager of going around the World in 80 days. He completes his journey  overcoming all the obstacles but he has to face unexpected delay due to arrest in Liverpool, in that time he is very closed to his wager but  finally he reaches London  but he feels that he loses the bet. So, he comes home as his residential place Saville Row. He remains calm and does not blame anyone. But at the end he knows that he can win the bet as he gained one day when he crossed the International Date Line. He won  the wager as well as the love of charming woman, who made him the happiest of men. so it is rightly said justice is served/done in the end.


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