Review of Joseph Conrad's 'II Conde'

These leaps of faith allow him to make life-altering decisions for everyone involved. “Social scientists interpret these leaps of faith either as escape from rationality or simply a different level of rationality” (Sherman 1). The Count had a brutal life as Edmond Dantès; he had an extensive imprisonment, lost his love to his enemy, and was framed by people he believed to be his friends. The vengeance that Dantès seeks when he escapes the Château d’ If can be viewed as an escape from reality. Rather than accept what he has lost, Dantès wants to ruin his enemies’ lives; he refuses to continue life and deal with the pain. To escape from reality he uses his newly acquired wealth to buy himself a new title and a new life: all in the name of revenge. When Dantès becomes the Count and begins to plot his revenge he takes on a God-like image. His immense wealth and manners leave the Parisians awestruck. They have faith in him because he appears to be knowledgeable and well traveled. It is easy to hold someone with such impressive qualities to the standard of a godly figure. The Count takes on a father-like relationship with many of the young men in the novel such as Maximilien and Albert. God is also viewed as a fatherly figure, bringing support and comfort to his “children.” ‘The God-creator whom believers call father, Freud writes, ‘really is the father, with all the magnificence in which he once appeared to the

The Count is thinking to himself about his time in prison. I think this is a intimidating quote. He recently wrapped his mind around the concept that what he was doing was sinful, but with him being in a nasty place where his iniquity once festered, thoughts of revenge are resurfacing in his mind. It is sad that his mind that has been pulled out of a unscrupulous place is now being tempted again. It is scary that simply being in a place that held "bad" people with thoughts of anger and hatred brings those same feelings around a person who is turning himself around.

The style of speech by the protagonist give subtle clues into his mental state and the complexities of his thought. This short story is told by Montresor in present time, giving his account of a crime committed fifty years in the past. Because the story is told in first person, the reader is invited to be a part of this crime and to condone it as well (Hartnell-Mottram, 2007). Montresor had been insulted by Fortunato and because

That quote shows for once in the book the reason he is doing what he is doing. The reason he seeks revenge is because he believes God sent him. Not only does the Count believe he is an “agent of providence” he also believes in divine justice “The Count of Monte Cristo in the context of its allusions to Byron and Shakespeare.References to philosophical implications of Monte Cristo’s beliefs of divine justice.” Divine justice is the belief that god will right wrongs, and the Count believes that God sent him to right the wrong in this case get revenge on Caderousse, Danglars, Ferdinand, and Villefort. The Count’s plan was to get revenge on four bad men. However in the end he kills more good than bad. Yes, he did not mean to kill those innocent people they were collateral damage ,but nonetheless he still caused damage. Out of six people that died only two of them were the bad people the Count set out to kill. Villefort is showing the dead Edouard to the Count the reader will see in this quote that the Count knows he went too far ;Monte Cristo paled at the horrible sight. He realized that he had gone beyond the limits of rightful vengeance and that he could

The Count of Monte Cristo is about a young man named Edmond Dantes. Edmond is a bright young man who worked on a ship. While on the ship the captain gets sick and asks edmond to deliver a message to Napoleon Bonaparte. Edmond speaks with Napoleon and is then told to deliver a letter to Nortier. Edmond is also set to become captain of the ship.

“It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels”-Saint Augustine. Pride is can bring out the good qualities in people but can also overpower them, and cause a negative reaction. The Count of Monte Cristo is about Edmond Dantes who was about to be the captain of the Pharaon and marry the love of his life. Until, he was falsely accused of treason, by his “friends” and sent to Chateau d’if. When Edmond escapes the jail he finds a smuggler ship who takes him to the Isle of Monte Cristo.

They do not grow wise. They grow careful."(261). Hemingway seems to use the character of the Count for several purposes. The Count is a man on the cusp of death. He shows that though the body may get old and die, the spirit still lives on strong. Yet he also refutes the notion that age is wisdom. The Count is just another example of a man dealing with death, he also seems to be a vision of what Frederic will become in the future.

The Count is symbolic to evil and death in the flesh. He controls the wolves in his castle. He feeds off of blood from his victims, as do all vampires. The Count is considered evil because he kills people to feed himself. Though he is considered to be pure evil, he still, however, converses with others throughout the story.

The Marquis “ran his eyes over them all, as if they had been mere rats come out of their holes” (84), because that is how he sees the peasants and anyone who is not a noble. He even blames the peasants for not taking care of their children. Monsieur the Marquis inconsiderately throws a gold coin to the crowd of people as an attempt to “recompense” for killing Gaspard’s child. The Marquis is a member of the Evremondes, a family of French nobles, and reveals how the French nobility feel about the lower class. He is very cruel and refers to the peasants as dogs.

The Count's perception of himself as a humble military man is challenged when he is asked to identify the Marquise's assailants. The Count lies and says that he can not recognize them. He lies because of his own embarrassment in committing the act that the Marquise's attackers attempted and not

Light and darkness has many different symbolic features and gives off many perspectives such as good and evil or love and hate. Having many meanings but each one giving an opposite view. Despite the fact that in this story, light does not signify the greatness of Marlow or anything in that fact. Light and dark both have a different look. The outlook of the story is that light's supposed to be a positive thing where in reality it has its failings, light may not always be a good thing, and that's where this story brings in misconceptions. The people in this story might say at times that London is the light and Africa is the dark, but this is the real idea is that London is civilized and was classified as colored with a hint of ominous. Throughout the whole story, this author is trying to convey the readers that not all lovely things in this world are light.

Foremost, the text, “The Count of Monte Cristo’s” theme to be optimistic about your freedom, is developed through Edmon and the jailer’s discussion. How this works is, when Dumas has Edmon divert the jailer from the other prisoner, he reveals Edmon’s aspiration for the other prisoner to reciprocate. For example, in the excerpt it states, “Dantes raised himself up and began to talk about everything; about the bad quality of the food, about the coldness of his dungeon, grumbling and complaining, in order to have an excuse for speaking louder, and wearying the patience of his jailer…” (Dumas2). This quote proves that Edmon attempts to distract the jailer by ranting off about his poor condition, which is what the author wants the readers to see

Count treated his wife as a beautiful woman throughout the story. He was least concerned about her feelings and emotional requirements. It was clear on many occasions. First, in the beginning when Countess was very angry with her husband even at that situation Count found her very beautiful. He did not try to find out why his wife is upset. Even in the end when Countess revealed that she has never been unfaithful to him, he immediately starts feeling the same without the least concern about the fact that what made his religious wife to lie even at the altar of Christ. Thus proving that for a man, it is lust that is of utmost importance in their relationship with woman. Noble emotions are used as facades to dignify their ignoble

The Count of Monte Christo is a movie or story that talks about true love, suffer, revenge and death. True love, a long lasting love between Mercedes and Dante that are still existing even there is an appeal with Fernand Mondego. Suffers, Mondego is a best friend of Dante in which he is the cause of Dante’s suffering in the prison over 13 years. Revenge, at the time that Dante knows the reason of his imprisonment, he try to revenge on his best friend named Mondego. Death, as the end of the story, Dante killed Mondego as an exchange to his undoubtedly imprisonment.