Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea as an inhabitant of British Colonial India, "is an inhabitant of an oppressed country". Verne took the name "Nautilus" from one of the earliest successful submarines, built in 1800 by Robert Fulton, who later invented the first commercially successful steamboat. Fulton's submarine was named after the paper nautilus because it had a sail. Three years before writing his novel, Jules Verne also studied a model of the newly developed French Navy submarine "Plongeur" at the 1867 Exposition Universelle, which inspired him for his definition of the "Nautilus". The breathing apparatus used by "Nautilus" divers is depicted as an untethered version
Big Brother Canada (season 3) vibe. Large gears and metals can be seen in all the rooms, giving the appearance of showing the House's inner workings. The British edition of the franchise was cited as an influence on the theme, with Faragher wanting the House to make it's inhabitants feel uncomfortable. The layout of the House remains the same as the prior season, with the entrance, bathroom, and main bedrooms upstairs; the Have-Not room remains downstairs. The Head of Household room was compared to the parlor of the Nautilus from the science-fiction novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" (1870). The main bedroom has the