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| Created by | Jules Verne |
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| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Detective, Policeman |
| Nationality | British |
Detective Fix is a main character in the novel Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne. Fix is an English detective from Scotland Yard and suspects that Phileas Fogg is the thief who robbed £50,000 from the Bank of England.[1][2]
Verne was inspired by the character Javert from the novel Les Misérables when creating the character Fix.[3]
Biography[edit]
He is an English detective who attracted by the bounty offered for the capture of the thief of the Bank of England, he is responsible for finding the thief. The description of the latter quickly makes him suspect, upon seeing Phileas Fogg, that the two men are one and that the gentleman only accepted the bet of going around the world in a given time only to hide his escape from the police. Endowed with extraordinary obstinacy, Fix waits for the traveler firmly in Suez. But the arrest warrant not having arrived, he decides to follow Fogg on his journey. Trying by all means to delay Fogg, he goes so far as to get Passepartout drunk in Hong Kong and rejoices in the storm that is assailing the Rangoon, despite the seasickness he feels from it.
Change of tactics on American soil. Fix does everything necessary to make the trip faster, sensing that the time to return to Britain is approaching. There, he will finally be able to arrest the gentleman without having to wait for a arrest warrant.
Throughout this journey, Fogg does not seem to notice the detective's schemes and obligingly offers him, at each stage, his help to obtain a place on the ships he borrows. Certainly, sometimes Fix sometimes wonders about the attitude of Fogg, imperturbably continuing his jounaley around the earth, and has doubts about his guilt in the theft of the Bank[4]. However, his professional conscience quickly takes over and, at the end of the journey, when Phileas Fogg discovers that he only has a few moments to take a train, he stops him. But, a few hours later, the detective returns with apologies, having learned that the real thief had just been apprehended. Later, when he realizes his error in calculating the time and his victory, Fogg, unable to blame the detective, will send him a bonus of five hundred pounds.
Bibliography[edit]
- Claude Lengrand. Dictionary of Extraordinary Journeys. Volume I. Inking. 1998.
- François Angelier. Jules Verne Dictionary. Pygmalion. 2006.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "LitCharts". LitCharts. Retrieved 2024-05-02.
- ^ "Characters: Around the World in 80 Days | Utah Shakespeare Festival". www.bard.org. Retrieved 2024-05-04.
- ^ Simone Vierne: Preface to the novel. Garnier-Flammarion. 1978. Page 34.
- ^ Around the world in eighty days - Chapter XXX.
External links[edit]
- Around the World in 80 Days – Complete edition with additional content