Shakespeare’s influence on Alexandre Dumas

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Shakespeare’s influence on Alexandre Dumas

Did Dumas rationally rewrite some of the ideas from Shakespeare’s

Romeo and Juliet? Or was it just a coincidence of them being so much alike?

Some of the similarities included poisoning of people, appearing to be dead, and

revenge on others; they both used elements of allusions, figurative language,

point of view and tone to convey the theme of revenge in their writing which

concluded to be one of the best of their time and also today. However, Dumas’

just might’ve been inspired by Shakespeare’s plays that he wanted to make his

own version of it.

The count of Monte Cristo is the happy version of Shakespeare's Romeo

and Juliet, where the lovers actually live happily ever after being through

tragedies, revenge, Dante’s experiencing near death experience, having a loved

one taken away from you; nevertheless when they do see each other once again

they realize that now they are two different people completely different then they

were before; also now they had moved on and found someone ...

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