Alexandre Dumas Research Paper

Edmond Dantes was a 19 year old man who became captain of a ship name the Pharaon. He was much loved by everyone. He is pretty gullible and becomes vengeful when the one guy he considered his friend betrayed him the other two who he was not to fond of ruined his life. He was a respectable young man who showed that numerous times like when he had to leave Morrel while he was talking to him; he said “I beg you excuse me, Monsieur Morrel (Dumas 5). He was to be betrothed to a girl named Mercedes who he’d loved very much but he loved his father most of all. He felt bad when he found out his father was broke from paying his debt causing him to fall to his knees and said “may God forgive me” (Dumas 9). Dantès is a pretty unique character who

Edmond Dantes: the man of many faces including The Count of Monte Cristo, Chief clerk of Thomson, Abbe Busoni, Lord Wilmore, M. Zaccone and Sinbad the Sailor. Edmond is Incredible resourceful, his plan for vengeance against the people who tarnished his innocents and threw him into jail is so large and so complex. The reader gets distracted by the small things, caught up with what is going on not paying to the big picture then boom Edmond shows us his hand. Edmond hustles and cons everyone in the room to doing what he wants them to do. And develops a serious gods complex throughout the novel till he realize later on that he is not the messenger of god, and the world he has created around himself comes crashing down around

In The Count of Monte Cristo, one can see the unjust subjugation and imprisonment of Edmond Dantes for a crime he did not commit. While imprisoned for just over a decade, he becomes skilled

Throughout the novel, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Edmond Dantes was justified in seeking revenge on the ones whom did him wrong. He takes it upon himself to punish those responsible for his years of suffering in the Chateau d’If. What started all the conflict was the witnessed letter exchange between Dantes and the Emperor Napoleon. Fernand Mondego, the best friend and shipmate of Dantes, was the one whom got Dantes arrested for being accused of treason. Mondego did so because he was jealous of Dantes’s life.

Edmond was wrongly accused of treason and sent to imprisonment for life. Edmond spends his next 14 years in the disconsolate Chateau d’lf, a prison sitting on an island at which no prisoner has ever escaped. As Edmond has lost all hope and “... God has faded from (his) heart,” he meets a priest, an old man who was sent to Chateau d’lf 11 years before Edmond. The priest is a very knowledgeable man with great persistence and belief in god. Continuously throughout the movie, the priest helps Edmond keep his belief in God and reminds him of why he is trying to escape similar to when King Melchizedek in The Alchemist was reminding Santiago that, “It's your mission on earth." Both of these men required a guardian and another person pushing them on and guiding them in their

When Edmond escapes the Châteduf and lands in the water in the text “The Sea is the cemetery of the Châteduf” in page 80 (Dumas, pg; 80, 8); When he rises back up to the surface when a storm was on its way, in the text “Although he was stunned and almost suffocated, Dantes nerveless had the presence of mind to hold his breath and rip open the sack with a knife which he still held in his right hand” (Dumas, pg; 80, 8) of the abridged version. This all symbolizes the Cristian faith of baptism, Edmond is reborn to a man of The Count of Monte Cristo. Going towards the end of the book, The Count of Monte Cristo has learned to love his new companion Haydee in the text “I love the life you’ve always made so sweet for me and id regret it if I had to die” (Dumas, pg; 529, 73). This symbolizes that the Count who was forbidden to love, has found a new lover to care and live for. Going further on to the story, The Count of Monte Cristo rides away to the sunset with his new lover in the text “I love you as I love my god, you are the finest, the kindest, and the greatest man on this earth” (Dumas, pg; 529, 73). The Count of Monte Cristo (Edmond Dantes) has his journey labeled throughout pain and vengeance, The Count is a symbol of agony and

Background: In the book The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, there are incredible amounts of drama and conflict. All the conflict started when Captain Leclair died. Dantes was going to be given his position on the ship until Fernand, Villefort, and Danglars staged him for sending secret letters to Napoleon to overthrow king Henry. Claim: The punishment of the characters Danglars, Villefort, and Fernand from the book The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas were really not god 's punishment for what happened to Edmond Dantes. I think that Edmond Dantes should be held against the actions that he performed on these three characters because even though they did ruin Dantes future and force him into life imprisonment, I think that

Alexandre Dumas was a descendant of a nobleman and the son of a general (Benton), and continued his family legacy by writing about 300 fiction and non-fiction books, plus creating six different periodicals (Benton). His writing styles and characters embody his life experiences as many writers do, and provides the oppurtunity to look back in time to see parts of French social culture, for example how its classes were defined and people's opinions on what was acceptable and what wasn't through use of euphanisms. The main influences on Alexandre Dumas when writing The Count of Monte Cristo were religion, especially Catholicism, his father, the French Revolution, the movement of French Romanticism, and a man named Picaud.

Alexandre Dumas. Writer. Playwright. Political Activist. Astounding many, Alexandre possessed many talents and still recognize him and discuss his works today. Most renowned for being the author of the very well known historical fiction books, Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre wrote of countless works of literature ranging from plays to memoirs, newspaper articles to politically charged papers. In multiple instances, Dumas composed novels actually based or influenced by real life stories, experiences and people he interacted with in his life. Consequently the lessons he learned transferred into themes in his novels, turning them into masterpieces that affect society for generations. Due to this fact, it is only right to examine one of Dumas’s background affected his writings and his works by providing him materials and resources to use in his novels and the political views to attack certain people and ideas. In turn his works affected society by

For Edmond Dantes in The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, life doesn’t seem to be going in his favor. He was sent to prison for fourteen years because, whom he thought were his friends, turned him in for something he did not do. Great friends, right? During those fourteen years, he had time to plot his revenge in a meticulous and, quite frankly, petty way. Because of this, I think he enjoys seeing people squirm more than anybody.

Alexandre Dumas was born July 24, 1802 to Thomas Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, a mullatto illegitimate son of a Marquis and Marie-Louise-Elizabeth Labouret, an innkeeper’s daughter, in Viller-Cotterets, a suburb of Paris, France. Unfortunately, in 1806 his father died because of his poor health and his mother took care of him from there on. When he was eighteen the only thing he knew about was hunting and woodcraft, he had little education. He lived in the suburbs of Paris with souvenirs from the eighteenth century that would influence his future novels. His father was a general for Napoleon I’s service, but went against him and lost future honors (Kashuba).

I can say that Emily Bronte knew what she was doing when approaching the issues of the Wuthering Heights. The antagonic play between nature and culture in Bronte’s vision were of great impact at the time and I could say that this is a reason why Wuthering Heights is a literary masterpiece.

Many authors use the setting of a novel to illuminate certain values and principles in their writing. In Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte utilizes this technique to enhance the theme of the work. The novel is set in a harsh environment in Northern England, highlighting two specific estates, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, as the main places of action. The dreary landscape and houses not only serve as the primary setting, but also as major symbols that aide in establishing the tone and enhancing the novel's theme of good versus evil.

In general, we see that Dumas's novel is at least based in history, although he takes great departures. The one great exception to this is Lady de Winter.

This purposefulness matches up with Dumas’ style, which though redundant at times, is also not filled with poetic language or flowery phrases. Rather, Dumas is a master of storytelling, and anyone can be assured that The Count of Monte Cristo’s over a thousand pages are filled up by story, that the events detailed from one page to another make progress. Following this strain, Dumas does not appear to be the type of author to regularly indulge in a need to show off his