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    Macbeth Unethical

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    play, Macbeth, a noble Scottish general acts unethically when he makes the decision to kill his own king (Macbeth 54). The Count of Monte Cristo, written by Alexandre Dumas, contains many characters who decide to act unethically for a plethora of reasons. What most people forget when acting unethically are the consequences that are soon to follow. In The Count of Monte Cristo, Madame de Villefort tries to poison Valentine in hopes of her death bringing fortune to her own son, Edouard (Dumas 426)

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    Wuthering Heights is a great literary work which keeps the audience exited from the beginning till the end of the novel. Some novels are monotonous in the way they are written and lack ideas to keep the novel move forward but this novel is an exception. Author keeps the audience guessing throughout this novel and that is one of the fundamental reasons for acceptance of this book even by the audience of this generation. Wuthering Heights basically revolves around its two main characters Catherine

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    O'Neill was born into the theatre. His father, James O'Neill, was a successful touring actor in the last quarter of the 19th century whose most famous role was that of the Count of Monte Cristo in a stage adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas père novel. His mother, Ella, accompanied her husband back and forth across the country, settling down only briefly for the birth of her first son, James, Jr., and of Eugene. Eugene, who was born in a hotel, spent his early childhood in hotel rooms, on trains,

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    In 2027 the United Kingdom is ruled as a fascist police state and a man who calls himself V was being experimented on by the government at a concentration camp called Larkhill. On November 5, 2027 V escaped from Larkhill by creating a bomb, blowing up the building, and killing most of his fellow inmates and his captors. Four years later, V starts to plan to get his revenge on the government. Around the same time, Evey Hammond, an employee at the British Television Network, breaks curfew while on

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    China’s cultural influences, deprives their judgement of the Little Seamstress’s capability of fostering her intellectual growth beyond their intentions. In the novel, the Little Seamstress describes a scene she acted out with Luo from “The Count of Monte Cristo”: “It was totally a new experience for me. Before, I had no idea that you could take on a role of a completely different person, actually become that person—a rich lady, for example and still be yourself.” (Sijie, 156). This is a moment where

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    they do not care to thank the Gods for the good harvests it will bring. The sons also do not have a respect for their elders, always bringing complaints to Lung in his old age. For all those reasons, the words of Alexandre Dumas, from The Count of Monte Cristo fit this novel very well. “Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone

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    We didn't read a lot of books but we got a ton of time consuming projects along with them that involved a lot of writing. Some of the books we read were Romeo and Juliet (it's lengthy and gets kinda boring), Fahrenheit 451, Anthem, and the Count of Monte Cristo which was our summer reading book. Note make sure

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    Arianna Dagnino in her essay Transcultural Literature and Contemporary World Literature points out that “with the denationalizing wave of globalization, even national literatures are under pressure to find new arrangements of form and content to adapt to a changed cultural and social paradigm. In other words, a mutation is under way within the global acumen of letters where new notions of belonging, as well as definitions of selfhood and identity are externalized through new creative artistic and

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    Dantes’s actions following his escape from prison could be seen as his attempt to serve justice that the system failed in doing. His actions, however, may be a better representation of revenge. In prison, Dantes meets Abbe Faria, another prisoner. They meet through a hole that Faria created in the wall between their cells thinking he was digging to the outside of the prison to escape. Dantes recounts to the Abbe how he came to be in the prison, and the Abbe brings to light the idea that maybe it

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    their movie remakes because there is more room to include depth, details, and descriptions. Sometimes, there are even many movie versions of a novel produced, each trying to better capture the essence of the novel more so than the last. The Count of Monte Cristo, for example, has had at least two remakes of the novel and most people still prefer the Edward Dantes they conjure up in their own mind when they read the novel. The quality of the film adaptation of The Hound of Baskervilles is, however

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