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    Ethics Ethics play a very big role in people's life and how they react to situations they are in. Ethics are the set of rules or principles that an individual lives by. These ethics can be instilled in people by the individual's parents, friends, or even the movies or television shows they watch. People are often faced with certain situations that cause them to struggle against their own ethics. These situations can result in an ethical decision that produces a positive outcome or an unethical

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    narrator may be taken to the Security Office anyways. If the narrator had told a story from a Chinese or North Korean film, the situation could have been avoided, but his exposure to Western literature causes him to tell the story of the Count of Monte Cristo instead. He explains why telling stories from films is now unappealing when he states, “the stark proletarian realism of those stories [the films]... struck me as being so far removed from human desires and true emotions, in short from real life

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    Symbols In The Odyssey

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    once said “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” Heroes go out of their way to do things in which no one else is brave enough to do. Odysseus in Book 21 of The Odyssey, Edmond Dantes in the Count of Monte Cristo, and Thor in Kenneth Branagh’s film take risks in order to benefit others using their characteristics and items that are significant to them. Imagery and symbols can help depict how heroes go through times of difficulty and trouble. Odysseus’s

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    recent Senate hearing, Independent Senator Bernie Sanders exclaimed, “We a not a compassionate society!” at representative Tom Price (Sanders). This idea can be traced back to Alexandre Dumas’ portrayal of a similar society, featured in The Count of Monte Cristo, in which a kind, and innocent man, Edmond Dantes, is exploited for his kind and altruistic mannerisms. Dantes, the protagonist, is the first mate of the Pharaon a ship belonging to Morrel & Son. He makes trip to the Isle of Elba to fulfill the

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    refused to investigate the murder of Bertuccio's brother. Bertuccio sought revenge on Villefort and stabbed him in the very same garden of Monte Cristo's new house. Bertuccio also rescued a newborn baby that Villefort had buried alive. Dantes already knows Bertuccio's story, and he purchased the house in order to extract the story from Bertuccio. This is how Monte Cristo knew the story. Bertuccio was part of a smuggler's ring that hid at Caderousse's inn. In 1829, Bertuccio was present when Dantes was

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    Dante's Vengeance

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    things on the day his father died. He wrote in his memoirs that he wanted to “‘kill God, who killed Daddy’”(Reiss 13) which is an example of wanting to rise beyond one’s position and believing oneself to be more powerful than God. In the Count of Monte Cristo, the protagonist Dantes was unjustly accused of treason and was imprisoned in Chateau d’If. After befriending a rich Italian abbe, who then bequeathed Dantes a vast fortune and escaping,

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    hero to serve justice and save the day or damsel in distress. However, in certain instances, the line between hero and villain, wrong and right, justice and revenge, may be blurred. In yet another acclaimed novel by Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo, these ideas are combined with fast paced action and a gripping, emotional narrative in a way that produces a novel unlike any other. Edmond Dantes, the

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    Life is full of difficulty. No one can see what will happen tomorrow. When you're life become successful, other people are envy and they're trying to drag you down ,especially those person have the highest position in politics or the other person who are rich. Like what happen to Edmond Dantes. Most of the time, the person have the power in politics or the one who have the ability to control other, they are the one who is abusive. Bad people does not become successful in their whole

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    Waiting and Hoping with the Count of Monte Christo Waiting and hoping, two things that we as people will always be doing. Although we desire things to happen for us immediately we will always wait, hoping on the other hand is our want or “need” for certain thing to happen to us. Sadly, some of us will go on for years and years waiting and hoping for dreams of ours to happen, such as Dantes from the Count of Monte Cristo who waited and hoped for the situation he was in to change. Almost all his

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    Men. When he exploded at the end of the movie, you could feel his anger. An odd choice might be the fiance in Titanic. He was so self centered and rude. THat was a good love story and true. Oh, I almost forgot Fernand Mondego in the Count of Monte Cristo. He was HORRIBLE!

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