Edmond Dantes was a 19 year old man who became captain of a ship name the Pharaon. He was much loved by everyone. He is pretty gullible and becomes vengeful when the one guy he considered his friend betrayed him the other two who he was not to fond of ruined his life. He was a respectable young man who showed that numerous times like when he had to leave Morrel while he was talking to him; he said “I beg you excuse me, Monsieur Morrel (Dumas 5). He was to be betrothed to a girl named Mercedes who he’d loved very much but he loved his father most of all. He felt bad when he found out his father was broke from paying his debt causing him to fall to his knees and said “may God forgive me” (Dumas 9). Dantès is a pretty unique character who does nothing but work hard to what he wants to achieve.
Edmond was a very ambitious man who wanted nothing more than to be a captain and marry his beloved. He achieved his goal of his goal of becoming captain in the wake of his former captain’s death. He is a man that seen the good in people rather they did him wrong or not. He becomes a very dynamic character throughout the story by transforming himself in to the mysterious and vengeful Count of Monte Cristo. In the wake of his imprisonment and realization that he was the outcome of a conspiracy plot, his whole persona changes and this will spark the change in the story. As depicted throughout the story “nothing ever escaped the Count’s eye” (Dumas 276) and nothing will stop his drive toward ruining the men who “killed him”.
Baron Danglars, Fernand Mondego, and Villefort are the protagonists of the story Danglars is described as an older man who “was personally as much disliked as Edmond Dantès was beloved by them” (Dumas 3). He is wealthy and sp...
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...ses conflict to enhance the theme by showing the outcome and the lengths that the characters in the book went to for their own happiness. His best known works were The Count of Monte Cristo and The three Musketeers.
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In the story “The Count of Monte Cristo”, there is also a meaning full theme to the story too. The story talks about a man named Edmond who hears noises in his jail cell, then wonders who is making the noise, why they are making
Explain how the conflict arises and go on to discuss in detail how the writer uses it to explore an important theme.
As everyone is thinking that Dantes is dead from prison, he really escaped and changed his name to The Count of Monte Cristo. Changing his name was a way to disguise him from being Dantes. After being locked up for so long, no one knew who he was. This disguise kept him from not having to go back to prison, and also helped with getting revenge on those who sent him to prison for no reason. In this novel, since Dantes was not able to be recognized, he used this dishonesty to back at Danglars, Mercedes, Benedetto, and Caderousse.
	The story of Edmond Dantes starts out as him being a sailor, aboard the Pharaon; he’s soon to become captain of the ship. Monsieur Morrel is the name of the owner of the Pharaon and a great friend of Dantes. He treats Edmond with great respect. There’s also a little special lady in Dantes life, the beautiful and wonderful Mercedes. A dream job and a dream wife, who could possibly want more?
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There is no doubt that when bad things happen to people, they want to reflect their misery on others whom they think caused it, which is exactly what happened with Edmond Dantes, a once innocent man who became consumed by hatred.
The last character Edmond changes into is the Count of Monte Cristo. After becoming acquainted with the people in Paris and his enemies it was time for the Count to begin dealing out revenge. The first count of revenge is taken towards Caderousse. The Count felt that Caderousse was a greedy man who after being stabbed was a sign from God that he deserved his punishment and the Count was just an instrument there to help deal justice. Before the death of Caderousse, it was revealed to him that the Count was the man he once betrayed, Edmond Dantes. The reveal makes Caderousse cry out to God for forgiveness and repentance
The relationship shared by Pierre and Helene is best described as a lustful charade. It is no coincidence that Pierre, one of the most introspective characters in the novel, first marries a shallow, inwardly-ugly adulterer. His first recorded attitude towards Helene is one of admira...
Dantès knew there was a possibility that the people around him would be plotting against him, however, being so trusting he completely ignored this warning. While Dantes is at sea Alexandre Dumas mentions that Dantes and Danglars were in a quarrel. Danglars is jealous that Dantes is such a young man, and is going to be awarded the position of captaincy. Thus, Danglars determines to put an end to Dantes’ prosperous career. Before Dantès went away to sea, he owed a debt to Caderousse which he had not paid.
is the understanding of this "rich" character. In this study I will try to analyze some of his traits (invisibility-lack of indentity , blindness) and his journey from idealism to a grim realism about the racism that confronts him in the story.
The story begins with the Marquise de Merteuil corresponding with Vicomte de Valmont regarding a luscious new act of ‘revenge’, as she describes it, against the Comte de Gercourt. The young Cecile de Volanges has just come home from the convent and her marriage to Gercourt has been arranged. However, before he can wed the innocent child, Merteuil proposes Valmont ‘educate’ her, thus spoiling Gercourt’s fancy for untarnished convent girls. Valmont is uninterested in such an easy seduction and is far more aroused by the thought of lulling The Presidente’ de Tourvel, the very epitome of virtue, into submission. And so the tale unfolds.
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...te become surer of himself and less of a coward. Dante lost respect for some of the shades, at the beginning of the poem he spoke with respect to the shades and pitied them immensely. Towards the ending of the poem Dante lost most respect for the shades and went as far as kicking a shade in the head demanding that the shade answers him. This shows a decline in the value of respect rather than gaining more knowledge in how to be respectful. Excellence is a core value related to personal development and Dante shows in increase in excellence as his journey comes to an end. Over all Dante’s character improves by the ending of the poem. Though he has been through hell he comes out with a new understanding of life, appears less depressed and more courageous.
In the play Othello by William Shakespeare there are many great themes that can be seen. For instance, jealousy, hatred, marriage, love, manipulation and more. This book can be related to the movie The Count of Monte Cristo by Kevin Reynold because they both share many themes. In the film there are themes like revenge, perseverance, ambition, manipulation, hatred, jealousy and more. The main themes that both stories have in common are hatred, manipulation and jealousy, because in both stories there were many situations were all these themes could be seen.