Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo‚ the young sailor Edmond Dantes is betrayed and falsely imprisoned for treason. After escaping solitary confinement‚ Dantes finds a vast treasure‚ assumes multiple new identities‚ and begins an elaborate plot to exact vengeance on those who wronged him. As part of this scheme‚ Dantes befriends Haydee‚ a young Grecian princess sold into slavery after her family was betrayed by a French officer. Haydee joins Dantes in his mission and conspires to bring justice to the
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doppelgangers to show that Dantés
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that crushes those who plotted his demise. Fernand Mondego and Danglars both wronged Dantes‚ and both were motivated by envy. Both men were filled with jealousy and never thought of the consequences of their actions. Villefort disposes of Dantes because of ambition. He would stop at nothing to climb the aristocratic ladder. Finally‚ Caderousse‚ a man that is simply ill natured‚ helped in the destruction of Dantes> None of these men could fathom how costly the price of these injustices would be
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Saint Helena. Major Characters (Note: There is not much physical description of the characters in the book). The protagonist of the story is Edmond Dantes. Dantes takes on many aliases throughout the book‚ including: Count of Monte Cristo‚ Sinbad the Sailor‚ Abbe Busoni‚ Lord Wilmore‚ and a chief banking clerk at Thomson and French. When the story begins‚ Dantes is a young sailor who sales for Pierre Morrel on the ship called the Pharoan. He is liked by everybody‚ and is a well respected sailor‚ and
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money. Edmond Dantes (James Caviezel)‚ the second mate of a French trading ship‚ a young and successful merchant sailor‚ is planning to marry Mercedes‚ his lover‚ after he gets his captain’s paper. Mercedes (Dagmara Dominczyk) promises to marry him‚ for she is in love with him. Fernand Mondego (Guy Pearce)‚ a representative of the ship‚ Edmond’s best friend‚ is obviously jealous of Edmond Dantes. He could not get Mercedes to love him even though he secretly desires to marry Mercedes. Edmond Dantes
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Cristo II. Characters Edmond Dantès - The protagonist of the novel. Dantès is an intelligent‚ honest‚ and loving man who turns bitter and vengeful after he is framed for a crime he does not commit. When Dantès finds himself free and enormously wealthy‚ he takes it upon himself to act as the agent of Providence‚ rewarding those who have helped him in his plight and punishing those responsible for his years of agony. The Count of Monte Cristo - The identity Dantès assumes when he emerges from
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Betrayal:Edmond Dantes The novel entitled‚ The Count of Monte Cristo was written by Alexander Dumas. The story begins during the eighteenth century and takes place in the country of France. The environment is within the travelling adventures of men embarking on a ship called the Pharoan. The protagonist is introduced by the author as being‚ Edmond Dantes. This character is seemingly described as being an extremely trustworthy and very naive young man. He is a youthful sailor from Marseilles and
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The Count of Monte Cristo is a novel in which Alexandre Dumas tells the story of Edmond Dantes‚ how he was wronged and his eventual plans for revenge. Although there are many characters in the novel‚ the main characters which Dumas presents all are preoccupied by their own personal pressing issues.When one is blindly consumed by a single thought‚ it will inevitably lead to nefarious moral decisions. By focusing so intensely‚ they achieve full realization of a single thought ( revenge) because these
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France during the eighteenth century‚ Edmond Dantes along with his close friend Fernand Mondego stop in a strange land in search of rescue help for their captain‚ who has just attained brain fever. They meet Napoleon and ask for medical attention for their captain. Napoleon allows them to stay in his quarters. On the first night of their stay‚ Napoleon asks Edmond a favor. He requests he deliver a "harmless‚ personal letter to a friend" back in Marseilles where Edmond resides. However‚ because of Napoleon’s
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The Count of Monte Cristo written by Alexandre Dumas has many aspects of symbolism that enhance the story of Edmond Dantès’ quest for revenge. Not only are the objects and people symbolic but perhaps the most significant and symbolic aspects of the book are the occurrences throughout the story. First‚ the sea has significant underlying meaning throughout the plot beginning when Edmond Dantès escapes prison and is cast into the sea. Second‚ the way in which the Count of Monte Cristo achieves revenge
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