Students explore the importance of setting in this video excerpt from the 2022 MASTERPIECE film adaptation of Jules Verne’s classic adventure tale Around the World in 80 Days. The scene takes place inside the gentlemen’s private Reform Club in 1870s London. The Reform Club backdrop immediately conveys characters of a certain social class. Students observe how this setting both accentuates Phileas Fogg’s complacency in the familiar surroundings and reveals how inwardly stifled he is by them. This video excerpt also introduces students to Fogg’s friend, the sanctimonious Mr. Bellamy, who plants the idea of circumnavigating the globe in Fogg’s mind.