Edmond Audran

The Count of Monte Cristo, a historic fiction novel written by French author Alexander Dumas, details the life of a young sailor named Edmond Dantès. In the beginning of the book, Dantès is a happy go lucky young man with a promising future, a supportive father, and a loving fiancé, Mercedes. However, his world soon falls apart when on his wedding day, he is falsely arrested, and imprisoned, for treason. After spending fourteen years in prison, Dantès escaped, developed a new persona as the Count

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. He appreciates a good execution and loves the gore of it all

worst villains. In The Count of Monte Cristo, Edmond Dantes is living life unbelievably at age nineteen, “he’ll marry the girl, become captain of the Pharaon and have the laugh on all of us...unless I take a hand in things” (16). Danglers is going to get in the way of Dantes and try to ruin his life. Danglars and Fernand “were jealous of him, one because of love and the other because ambition,”(104) Fernand wishes to love Mercedes, who is in love with Edmond Dantes, and Danglars is jealous with ambition

The 928 page book, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, is about a nineteen year old boy named Edmond Dantés, who is sent to prison for an act of treason he did not commit. While in prison he meets an Italian priest who turned Dantés into a well educated man and figures out the story behind Dantés’ demise. Dantés vowed to punish the people who had harmed him. When the priest died, Edmond escaped in the body bag. Then he found the Treasure of Monte Cristo and he became known as The Count

Dumas is a perfect example of this as the main character, Edmond Dantes takes on revenge after being unfairly imprisoned by the people around him. There are several people involved, including Danglars, Fernand, and Villefort, but who holds the most culpability? Among the three perpetrators, the person who bears the most fault is Danglars; he is the one who destroys Edmond Dantes’s entire life. First of all, due to Danglars’s actions, Edmond Dantes goes through hardships that could have been prevented

Edmond Rostand 's Cyrano de Bergerac is considered to be a Chivalric Romance but it also contains humor throughout. The play uses comedy throughout all of the acts for a variety of reasons. Cyrano who is the main character of the play is also the largest comic influence. With Cyrano, we see him develop through comedy and learn more about his character with it, and it is not only used by Cyrano but also many other characters. Comedy is used in a variety of ways throughout Cyrano de Bergerac such as

In Cyrano de Bergerac, written by Edmond Rostand and directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau, many symbols can be found that give new meaning to the story. For instance, Cyrano’s nose, Christian’s blood including Cyrano’s tears and letters are three of the many symbols used. Cyrano de Bergerac is a story set in France about an ‘ugly’ musketeer trying to win a woman’s heart by giving his written letters to another man in love with the same woman. Cyrano constantly praises his nose and mocks it, but it actually

In today’s day and age, people are judged not on their inner beauty, but rather, their physical beauty. This desire to hold judgement against outer beauty slowly ruins self-confidence. In Cyrano de Bergerac this judgement on outer beauty makes the characters feel insecure about their weaker qualities. This is demonstrated by Cyrano’s belief that people think lowly of him because of his appearance. In contrast, Christian finds himself physically attractive but, with little eloquence and fears his

The definition of courage is “the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, pain, etc., without fear; bravery” (“courage”). Is courage valued today? If courage did not exist, then the world would not be effective. Courage fetches the preeminent decisions and the impulsive decisions out of people. Dismally, people are frightened to expose their true colors. Consequently, this negative reason hurts people. Despite the fear, some rise up to the challenge of courage

In the play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand Roxane is loved by many, but yet only loves one, or so she thinks. She has a naive love for Christian. She only loves him for his looks. She thinks she loves him for his wit too, but Cyrano is posing as Christian to please Roxane. Therefor, she falls in love with Christian, but she truly has fallen in love with Cyrano. Roxane grows out of her naive love, and tells Christian she would love him even if he were ugly: “... If you were less Lovable--Less