In El Fili and Noli Basilio lost a love a (Crispin and Sisa in Noli. While Huli in El Fili)
Ibarra/Simouns plans didn't work (Well, in El Fili it almost did)
Spanish people/ friars continues to discriminate Filipinos.
1.) Ibarra and Dantes could have had a great future if the events didn't happen the way it did in the story. Ibarra could have married
Maria Clara, established a school and forgave the enemies of his father. Dantes also planned to marry Mercedes and to be a captain of
Pharaon, a trading ship.
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> 2.) They are both betrayed by people whom they believed are their friends. Ibarra was denounced by the friars while Dantes was betrayed by Villefort, Danglars and Fernand.
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> 3.) The protagonists both have friends who helped them escape (Elias and Faria). They also died in the course of the story.
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> 4.) The protagonists used bodies of water to escape - a lake for
Ibarra and the sea for Dantes.
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> 5.) They both used buried treasures for revenge.
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> 6.) Ibarra and Dantes both disguised in their revenge, Ibarra as
Simoun and Edmond Dantes as the Count of Monte Cristo. They also possessed more knowledge, wealth and resourcefulness in their comeback.
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> 7.) Lastly, they both believed that they were the agents of
Providence, sent out ot meet out justice to those who have sinned. In the end, they found out that revenge is a poison that infects all it touches, symbolized by terrible deaths of innocent people. To their horror, they realized too late that they were much a victim of their own vengeance as they were the victim of the men who wronged them.
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> In the climactic scenes of both stories, Ibarra and Dantes came to the realization that their intricate plans for revenge may not be inspired by God.
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> Rosalinda <valkyrie47no@y...> wrote:
> Nothing else is similar between the Fili and Hugo's The Count