The Count of Monte Cristo Theme: The Count of Monte Cristo is a very powerful book. So powerful in fact‚ that was controversial when it was first released. The Catholic church in France condemned it because of its powerful message it presented the reader. This theme was one of revenge and vengeance. Monte Cristo had two goals- to reward those who were kind to him and his aging father‚ and to punish those responsible for his imprisonment and suffering. For
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“The Count Of Monte Cristo“ The story “The Count of Monte Cristo” revolved around between the rich and the poor people can or cannot do when it comes to influence and power‚ and the revenge of Edmond Dantes. Edmond Dantes is a good-hearted and God-fearing person‚ a sailor who had a bright future ahead at the moment he’s imprisoned: he was about to be promoted and to marry the woman he loved so dearly. His life is ruined because of others envy to him especially his friend Fernand Mondego‚ who
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The Count of Monte Cristo Summary Short Summary The novel begins with the handsome young sailor Edmond Dantes. He has just returned from a journey aboard the Pharaon. The Pharaon’s shipowner‚ M. Morrel‚ rushes out to meet the ship. He finds that the captain has died en route‚ and Dantes has assumed the post with admirable skill. He thus plans to make Dantes officially the next captain of the ship. Dantes future is thus promising. His father’s financial situation as well as his own will be greatly
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The Count of Monte Cristo By: Alexandre Dumas Type of Literary Work: Historical Novel This book is an example of a historical Novel. It is historically accurate‚ and consists of characters that could have existed in the nineteenth century. Theme:Judgment Day comes to us all inevitably. We all pay for all evil and injustices of our life‚ yet sometimes there will be someone so viciously wronged‚ that he will return like a wrath of nature‚ with and unquenchable thirst for vengeance. Such a vendetta
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The movie The Count of Monte Cristo took place in France in the nineteenth century around 1814 on the islands of Elba‚ Chateau d’If and Monte Cristo. This was during the time after the fall of Napoleon’s empire. The Count of Monte Cristo tells a story of betrayal‚ ultimate revenge‚ and undying love. Edmond Dantes‚ a sailor who was falsely accused of treason by his best friend was sentenced to prison where he plots his revenge against those who betrayed him. Armond Mondego the friend who out of jealousy
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Viviana Rubalcava 10/16/13 English 1b/Hotchkiss The Count of Monte Cristo: Alexandre Dumas The classic literary novel‚ The Count of Monte Cristo‚ by Alexandre Dumas‚ is a dramatic adventurous story of hope‚ envy‚ justice‚ and vengeance. Alexandre Dumas creates a clear distinction between characters that are forces of good as well as negative forces. In this narrative novel the reader deeply sympathizes for characters who directly suffer from the evil actions of others. This novel illustrates
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The Count of Monte Cristo put forth several world views‚ spanning from prejudice‚ to the role wealth can play in social classes. The Count of Monte Cristo‚ started out as a sailor who lacked the money that his best friends family had. The count had something his friend didn’t though and that made his friend unhappy. The Count‚ was happy and had found love making his rich friend mad because money‚ he thought‚ was supposed to make people happy. Crooked politicians make an appearance in the film
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Elena Flores Period 1 August 16‚ 2013 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Duma When my cousin initially showed me this novel‚ I looked upon it as something around the lines of a history read. At a first look‚ with more than a thousand pages‚ The Count of Monte Cristo looked like a waste of time. Not only that‚ but it wasn’t even in modern English. I had never enjoyed Shakespeare. Why would this be any different? This novel would probably consist of long paragraphs that just dragged
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Keaton Zargham The Count of Monte Cristo Dialectical Journal Quotation‚ page # Reaction/Response Ch.1:” He is now at rest off the isle of El Giglio‚ sewn up in his hammock‚ with a thirty-six-pounder shot at his head and another at his heels.” PG. 2 This quote tells what sailors did to respect those who have died. This shows me that things that were done back then are a lot different than what we do now. Ch.2:” I have not
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Critical Analysis #2 The Count of Monte Cristo‚ by Alexander Dumas‚ is an adventure novel about a young man who is betrayed for reasons of jealousy and in the end gets his revenge. The novel addresses relatively evident themes. There are three main themes in The Count of Monte Cristo; they are revenge/vengeance‚ ideas of man as “his own authority”‚ and the importance of hope. The story begins in 1815; Edmond Dantes is promoted to captain of a ship and is engaged to is fiancé Mercedes. But one
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