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Throughout the book, the Count of Monte Cristo, written by Alexandre Dumas, the main character, the Count of Monte Cristo has a certain je ne sais quoi. He defines a certain way, just like the rest of the characters in the text do, as well as every single character ever written. That is because of his archetype. An archetype is a type of character, detail, image, or situation that continually reappears throughout literature. During the Count of Monte Cristo, Edmond Dantes, also known through other

Entry 1: Bibliographic Entry Sante, Luc, and Alexandre Dumas. The Count of Monte Cristo. New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004. Print. A. The background of Alexandre Dumas starts when he was born in modern-day Haiti. He was the son of a black slave and later became the highest-ranked leader in a modern white society. He put his fathers life into a book involving revenge, love and murder. B. The intended audience for this book is for high-schoolers to college students who like mystery, suspense

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas that centers around the wrongly convicted Edmond Dantes and how he takes revenge on those who convicted him while also rewarding those who took care of his father while he was imprisoned. Despite being poorly reviewed by scholars, this novel is still popular with the general public and is considered to be Dumas’ masterpiece. After reading this novel, it is obvious that it does deserve the title of “masterpiece”. Dumas’ work is absolutely genius in The

“It is better to lose your pride to the one you love, than to lose the one you love to your pride.”(Tamara Beasley)”Pride will cost you everything but leave you with nothing”(Fahad Ntulume). The Count of Monte Cristo was written by a man named, Alexandre Dumas. In the book, we meet a character named Villefort, when he wrongly imprisoned a man named Edmond Dantes for treason that was never committed. The reason for doing this was to protect his name and fortune. While Edmond was in jail, he met an

The Count of Monte Cristo is a movie based off of the book written by Alexandre Dumas and directed by Kevin Reynolds. The movie is not entirely historically accurate and was written mostly for entertainment purposes. There are various events throughout the movie that include historical references, however it is a very minor aspect of the movie. The historical references in the movie do not intend to create a real story as a history textbook would. They are there to add an interesting finesse to the

In the Count of Monte Cristo Edmond Dantès changed significantly throughout the story. In the beginning, Dantès is a traditional French man in love with his fiancé, Mercédès, and then Dantès is thrown into prison for a crime he did not commit. While Dantès is in prison he tries to hang himself, but he meets a man named Abbé Faria. Abbé Faria was an Italian priest who not only saved Dantès life, but also taught him all about history, science, art, and many languages. Abbé Faria was also played a major

Throughtout The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas, the theme hate is clearly exhibited by multiple characters. As described by oxforddictionaries.com, hate is to “ have a strong aversion to (something).” The main protagonist in The Count of Monte Cristo, Edmond Dantes, was immensly wronged by four of his peers and was sentenced to waste his life away in the Chateau d’If. Moreover Haydee, Dantes’ associate, was sold into slavery by one of the quintets who betrayed Dantes. In due course, Dantes

In The Count of Monte Cristo the work is put together by chronological order but it has some major time chunks in between. The effect of this structure has adds an importance to the years or days mentioned because it makes ten years seem to be of no importance at all in this work as a whole. In the first part of the novel between chapter 19 and 20 there is a time jump of about ten years. In chapter 19 it ends with Dantes secretly watching the ship “the Pharaon” sail into the port (Dantes makes another

The author, Alexandre Dumas, writes a novel about how a man’s life has been ruined, and now wants to take revenge on everyone who wronged him. In the beginning of “The Count of Monte Cristo,” a character named Edmond Dantes has the perfect life. He was just promoted to captain at the age of nineteen, and is about to marry the love of his life. He was the happiest man in the world that seemed to have a bright future ahead of him. Later on, Edmond Dantes changes tremendously throughout the book. Edmond

Just like every great story “The Count of Monte Cristo” has its own particular and mesmerizing settings. Alexandre Dumas not only amazes us with breathtaking and exotic places but he also takes us to the darkest and goriest corners that you could ever imagine, places that could even alter the emotional state of the strongest man. This novel begins at a French seaside town called Marseilles, Edmond’s hometown and home for all his loved ones and all his enemies. The Chateau d’If is a prison completely