Similarities Between Viva La Vida And The Count Of Monte Cristo

     Fate, for better or worse, interrupts everyone’s daily life, whether he/she chooses to acknowledge it or not. Thinking about fate conjures up different feelings for different people; some people believe strongly in it, some people think of fate as ridiculous, and some do not care one way or the other. However, in many instances, such as in William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, far too many coincidences occur to be strictly coincidental. Fate creates a powerful effect throughout the entire play, starting in the prologue, continuing as Romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love, and tragically ending in the lovers’ deaths.

Fate as defined by the Merriam Webster dictionary is ‘an inevitable and often adverse outcome, condition, or end’. Sophocles discusses fate vs free will in his plays. In the play Oedipus Rex there was a prophecy that Oedipus was destined to kill his father and marry his mother, he attempts to escape his destiny by running away to Thebes where he meets his fate. In the play Antigone, that main character Antigone decides to go against Creon’s (her uncle who has inherited the throne) decree and bury the brother, Polynices, knowing the consequences would lead to her death. In Sophocles’ plays Oedipus Rex and Antigone, the theme is mankind not being able to escape their fate.

In life, ones fate is already set. The choices one makes influence everything else in their life. Often, fate throws unexpected situations at you and one must learn how to interpret the reasoning behind it. Many believers in fate think for every bad situation that occurs a positive one will follow. Fate is something that you can’t control. All actions whether they may be in the past, present, or future occur because they are meant to. Everything happens for a reason, and everyone handles situations differently.

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

Edmond is imprisoned wrongfully and wasts away in prison and when i say waste away i mean it was the medieval ara so it wasn't a good place to be and it was amazing that he didn't die while he was there. Once he was released however he claimed his riches and went to his castle, it is here when he begins planning his revenge on the three men who got him locked up. He made the decision to use their greatest vice or most favorite thing for his revenge so that the impact cuts deep. So if the man was greedy then he would use his greed as part of his revenge.

Some people may not believe that destiny is something that truthfully exists in the world. These people doubt that there is anything that is actually meant to be, or supposed to happen, thinking that there is always a way around troubling predicaments, knowing that it is not necessary to turn out just one certain way. They trust that whatever occurs in their lives comes as a result of the decisions that they make with their own free will. Others believe that whatever happens during the course of their lives is inevitable and every event is laid out before them like a road map to life, in other words, fate. William Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet has fate as an exceptionally crucial element which makes fate as important as any

According to Oxford Dictionaries, fate “ is the development of events outside a person’s control.” Fate can also mean the course of someone’s life, or the outcome of a situation for someone or something, seen as outside of someone’s control. With these definitions in mind, it is interesting to think about how big of a role fate plays in Romeo and Juliet. Fate is what the whole story centers around and what the foundation of the story is built upon, the fate of two star-crossed lovers. Fate plays a huge role in all of the parts of the story: the beginning, middle, and end.

Fate and destiny are inflexible, unchanging, it was the will of fate that Romeo would kill Tybalt, and if not in that moment, then later. This does not mean that fate is entirely reliable, for example, if one is destined to become rich, that does not mean that they should stop going to school because they’re supposed to be rich. Naturally the inevitable is mistaken for forever, marriage is not inevitable nor is it permanent, like life. Time, is what life itself revolves around, thus, fate does as well. This

In the Ancient Greek and Roman world fate was known to be an unalterable chain of predetermined events caused by a supernatural power. Hesiod personifies fate to be three very old women who spins the threads of people’s destiny. Everyone has a fate meaning that even the gods cannot escape these powerful forces from Atropos (1 of the 3 women) when she cuts the string, ultimately determining your destiny. Throughout Virgil’s Aeneid fate played an immense role from the beginning of the poem as Aeneas already knew what he was destined for leading him to Italy at the end. Virgil depicted fate to be an unstoppable power that leads one to their destiny.

The poem, Viva La says,” One minute I held the key/ Next the walls were closed on me”, (10-11 Coldplay). This shows how fast one’s power can all be lost in a matter of minutes. Dumas also gives great detail to create an image inside the reader’s head. The quote goes with the theme as he had a lot of power but then again lost it all. Sight imagery is again used in “Viva La Vida”. The text states, “Revolutionaries wait/ for my head on a silver plate”, (29-30 Dumas). This shows that the king is so destruct because of the power he had, and now everyone wants him dead. This is an exaggeration as only his head can’t be on a platter. The author used this hyperbole because, carrying a head on a silver plate is mocking the former leader. The details that the author provides gives us a detailed image of how the ruler/king is hated on by many others. The book, The Count of Monte Cristo as well uses sight imagery too. The text states,“Your two accomplices weren’t so lucky: One of them is insane and the other is dead”, (522, Dumas). One can tell that the count has so much power to which he can go as far as to ruin/kill people. This goes with the theme stated because once again,a lot of power can get the best of many. The count made mistakes that cannot be resolved anymore because power took over

fate could be represented in many different ways, whether that be good or bad, omens and love, or generally calling it destiny fate is not something a person can hear, see, smell, feel or taste. fate is not a physical object. it is more like destiny, but not exactly. destiny is when you are meant to do something but can still decide against it, while whatever is written in fate is what must happen, making fate an omnipotent and omniscient force. fate is a path that has been made specifically for you and though there might sometimes be interruptions with how things go, fate ultimately gets its way, which is how fate is portrayed in both books of Romeo and Juliet and the alchemist.

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power," states 16 the president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.One who obtains power holds the ability to either harm or enrich the world. In addition, it's easy to overlook the joys of life in which power blinds one of.Therefore, with power comes a choice, rather one decides to display good or evil upon the mass of mankind.In Viva La Vida and The Count of Monte Cristo, the writers use of symbolism and metaphors convey the idea that power causes one to act in evil and cruel ways if not used responsibly.

“ I want to win back the happiness that was taken away from me. I must punish my enemies before I die, and I may also have some friends to reward” (Dumas, pg. 77). Dantes is the protagonist of the novel that changed mentally and morally. The reader will recognize his change when Dantes marries Mercedes, meets Abbe Farie, and finally gets his freedom when he is leaving from prison.

Power Power is something many people yearn for and will do anything to achieve, but once you've achieved power over others, what would happen if you slowly started to lose it? The Count of Monte Cristo tells that story of a young man who was arrested for false pretences and his quest for vengeance through the use of his power. Similarly Viva La Vida tells the story of a man who used to be king, but whose power was taken away from him. In The Count of Monte Cristo and Viva La Vida both the author and songwriter use plot and diction to emphasize the idea that power is something many wish for but once obtained it still does not make you all powerful.

Seeing Dante’s Italian materialize through murderous actions, he was convinced that his earthly life had become the Hell he anticipated to suffer in the next life. With Dante’s poetry becoming a reality, Lonza saw the frightening connection between the imaginative and realistic world and clearly envisioned the disaster that was to come with each circle of