Manipulation In The Count Of Monte Cristo

Everyday people seem change themselves in one way or another, but sometimes people change their appearance and personality to the point where those who were close to them, can not even recognize them in a crowd. The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas, is a story of a sailor, Edmond Dantes, who was betrayed during his prime time of his life by the jealousy of his friends. Dantes is sent to prison where he spends countless years planning an escape with the help of a fellow prisoner. The prisoner informs Dantes that he knows where a treasure is that one man can not even dream about. Dantes friend then happens to die, leaving Dantes with the information of where the treasure is.

As Edmond Dantes loses his dignity, he takes a new role as Count of Monte Cristo and other personas that was only a secret to himself and the audience, which is a form of dramatic irony. After Dantes escaped from prison, he goes to Monsieur Marseilles and tells him that he was “the head clerk of the firm of Thomson and French,”(Dumas 111) whose role he uses to buy an investment. Here he disguises himself as the head clerk of the firm of Thompson and French to prevent others from knowing, which is dramatic irony since the audience knows something that the characters in the novel don’t. Not only were his personas a form of dramatic irony, but incidents that occured after Edmond’s imprisonment were also a type of dramatic irony. Noirtier had hidden the fact that he “killed [Frank’s father]”(Dumas 310) from Franz, which is a form of dramatic irony since the audience knew about it. Through this fact, the reader can view Noirtier as very dangerous individual but also as a protective grandparent since he hid this fact from Valentine to protect her. Later, Caderousse and Andrea plans a robbery that will take place in the Count of Monte Cristo’s house, but this robbery didn’t stay a secret for long. The Count of Monte Cristo was given a letter that warned him of an upcoming robbery, and the Count inferred that “they want to kill me,”(Dumas 330) which led him to be prepared. Dumas uses dramatic irony here because it leads the Count to be prepared without Caderousse knowing, which

Douglas Horton once said, "While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself". The Count of Monte Cristo, a truly captivating novel written by Alexandre Dumas, lives to tell the tale of a young French Sailor, Edmond Dantés, who is forced to spend fourteen years in prison due to the actions of his jealous enemies or so-called "friends". When he eventually escapes, he is left with the feelings of a strong hatred and a thirst for revenge which sets him up to be the man he develops into throughout the novel. Throughout the novel, the Count of Monte Cristo seeks relentless revenge on all of the people who had wronged him many years ago. Dantés, completely unrecognizable after being freed, became only a prisoner of himself due to his need

Edmond Dantes was a young leader whose purpose in life, who he cares about, and how others viewed him contributed with remaining humble to his father, his love for Mercedes, and most importantly himself. Yet his naive manner made him ignorant of his surroundings. The purpose of Dante's´ life contributed to his loved ones expressed by “ With my first pay I shall buy you little house with a garden where you can plant your clematis, your nasturtiums, and your  honeysuckle” (Dumas , 10). This expressed Dantes’ immensely loving bond with his father, for his dream was to give everything he can to him. Edmond’s passion in life is to grow in happiness with his loved ones, for that is his only duty in life for him. His sole purpose is dedicated

When Dantes returns from his imprisonment and visits Caderousse as Abbe Faria, he finds him as an “unfortunate innkeeper” (96) and leaves him with a diamond as a reward for telling him what has happened to the other conspirators and for repenting of “envying his (Dantes’) happiness for a short while” (98); however, Abbe Faria gives him this diamond, knowing that, because of his greed, it will ultimately lead to his downfall. Just as Caderousse passively allows Dantes’ life to come to ruin, when Dantes returns as Monte Cristo, he himself does nothing to harm Caderousse, but equips him with the means to ruin his own

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

When looking at both Dumas’s life and his the story of ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ he had written, both have the similarity of having to do with the rise of status from low to high class. This demonstrates that Dumas had portrayed Dantes lifestyle in the movie to being somewhat like his; Man of poorness to the man of wealthiness.

For, Danglars does not care about anyone else’s honor or dishonor, since “it neither increases nor decreases [his] income” (365). Since Danglars is the “the guiltiest…the instigator” (106) against Dantes and convinces Fernand and Caderousse to join his conspiracy, he deserves the worst judgment from Monte Cristo; however, since the unexpected death of Edouard, Monte Cristo realizes that he may be acting out of line in accordance to God’s will and is going too far with his revenge plan. Thus, he shows mercy on Danglars in the hope that the Lord will show mercy on him. Therefore, concerning the extent of human and ultimate justice regarding his revenge on Danglars, Monte Cristo does not go to the same extreme of punishing Danglars as he initially plans, since, “having arrived at the summit of his vengeance after his slow and tortuous climb, he had looked down into the abyss of doubt”

The movie on "The Count of Monte Cristo" revolved around the fight against revenge of between two men who were once of the best of friends, however through jealousy of one towards the other's success came to a point of betrayal and have had Edmund Dantes imprisoned and tortured. Several years passed by, Dantes escapes prison and have accumulated wealth in which he plans to use in for revenge towards the people who'm have lost faith in him and betrayed him. Dantes then overcomes his eagerness to take revenge due to his love for Mercedes, however continues to seek for justice of his false imprisonment and finds out Fernand Mondego was the man behind his false imprisonment. Language issue is bridged in different forms such as gender, class, age

In The Count of Monte Cristo the work is put together by chronological order but it has some major time chunks in between. The effect of this structure has adds an importance to the years or days mentioned because it makes ten years seem to be of no importance at all in this work as a whole. In the first part of the novel between chapter 19 and 20 there is a time jump of about ten years. In chapter 19 it ends with Dantes secretly watching the ship “the Pharaon” sail into the port (Dantes makes another Pharaon for Monsieur Morrel and gives it to Morrel without him knowing who had sent such a generous gift) and then after the ship comes into port Dantes leaves to get on his yacht (Dumas 131). Then in chapter 20 the time is now ten years later

After his clever way of escaping prison off the isolated island of Chateau d’If, he voyages to the island of Monte Cristo. In the depths of a cave, he discovers immense amounts of riches. Therefore, Dante decides to disguise himself throughout the novel as the Count of Monte Cristo. One evening, he invites Albert de Morcerf, son of Fernand (Dante’s enemy) and his friend Baron Franz d'Epinay to a public execution. Monte Cristo believes that instant death is unlawful by stating, “Oh yes, I’d fight a duel for something of that sort; but for slow, profound, infinite and eternal suffering I’d try to avenge myself by inflicting similar suffering.

One of the only truly dynamic character in The Count of Monte Cristo is Edmond Dantes and throughout the book he changes from the extremely loyal, kind and noble Edmond Dantes, to the cold, calculating and vengeful Count of Monte Cristo and then to a changed man with a little bit of both incarnations of him mixed together. In the beginning of the novel he works hard as a sailor on the Pharaon and when he arrives to Marseilles he is promoted to captain of the ship and is about to marry Mercedes a beautiful young lady. Then he is betrayed thrown into prison and held there for 14 years. In his prison cell is where he started to develop his sense of vengeance and wrath against those who got him thrown in jail forming a “terrible resolution” and swearing a “fearful oath.” (Count, 48) This was the beginning of Edmond’s slide into the vengeful state he is in for almost the entire rest of the book. He no longer cares about death as “who cares about that as long as he has had his vengeance.” (Count, 116) Now Edmond has become dangerous and determined and he won’t give up until his vengeance is wrought. Later though after the death of Edouard, the son of Villefort, he comes to the resolution that he has gone too far. He even forgives Danglars in the end saying “the man you condemned to die of hunger but who now forgives you because he himself needs to be forgiven.

The Central issue in the book The Count of Monte Cristo is revenge. Vengeance is never morally just. The main character in this book, Dantès, was wrongfully thrown into prison. For a time, Dantes successfully kept the thought of vengeance away from his thoughts. He told himself, “It is the hatred of men and not the vengeance of God.”

In Treasure and Vengeance, Justin Kaplan speaks about The Count of Monte Cristo in the highest regard. After a brief back story on himself, he quickly transitions into connecting it with the book itself. Kaplan claims that “in a singular sense, [Edmond’s] motive was disinterested: not the means to anything else and with no purpose other than its own fulfillment” (Kaplan). This is a key aspect in Kaplan’s criticism. He adds that his “revenge, driven by the festering sense of injustice” is what drives Edmond throughout the story (Kaplan). The whole story revolves around Dantès’ dire need to get revenge on Fernand, as well as others who have crossed him. In fact, the Count himself says that “for all evils there are two remedies - time and silence” (Dumas 523). His sole mission is to retaliate against Mondego, who was the cause of his wrongful conviction. He intends to get his revenge for his own needs

The Count of Monte Cristo introduces Edmond Dante as a young, dashing, articulate man living a marvelous life as he's bestowed the position of captain, following Captain Leclère death. Moreover, he intends to marry the lovely Mercedes. Though Dante holds a vibrant life ahead of him, he falls victim to Danglar and Fernand's jealousy. Danglar envy reigns on Edmond which further escalates once he's appointed the captain, while Fernand loathes Mercedes admiration toward Dante. Danglars, Fernand, and Caderousse plot a scheme in falsely accusing Dante of treason, henceforth he shall be incarcerated and stripped of nobility. Throughout the whole ordeal, the Count of Monte Cristo's vengeance was fulfilled for the 14 years of torment, starvation, and humiliation endured in Chateau d'If, as a “wounded hero of Virgil he carried the arrow in his wound” (Dumas 63).