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The Count of Monte Cristo was written by a mixed frenchman Alexandre Dumas in 1844. This was around the time of the French industrial exposition was going on as well as the Franco Moroccan War. This is also around the time that Napoleon was in power in France. Alexandre Dumas was born on July 24th, 1802 in Villers-Cotterets, France. His birth name was Dumas Davy De La Pailleterie. He was and still is a widely read french author as his works have been translated into over one hundred languages and his books have also been made into a little over 200 movies. He mainly focused on Romanticism and Historical fiction. Some of his most famous works include The Count Of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and 10 Years Later. All of his works combined make up over one hundred thousand pages of writing. Dumas started out his career working for Louis Philippe and wrote articles for magazines, as well as plays for the theater. After the production of many successful plays, Dumas decided to start writing novels instead. Unfortunately for Dumas, he was not very good with all the money he had earned and was an extravagant spender. He spent a lot of money on women and an unnecessary living style. After King Louis-Philippe got ousted from the throne in France, Dumas fled to Belgium. He then moved to Russia where French is their second language and his writings became very popular there. He then moved on a few years later to Italy and founded his own paper called the Indipendente. A few years after that Dumas returned to Paris, France after Napoleon was no longer king.
Alexandre Dumas built up a huge legacy during his time as a writer and playwright. However, his death ended up being overshadowed by the Franco...
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...lson Lee. “Count Of Monte Cristo, Revenge & amp; Overcoming Crisis”. The Philippine Star. Philstar. 2012. web. 8 March 2014.
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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
The book opens "Nous sommes tours Sauvages," which translates to "We are all Savages." It's a fitting way to begin a book chronicling the story of Major Robert Rogers and his rangers journey, Native American slaughter, and return home. In White Devil: A True Story of War, Savagery, and Vengeance in Colonial America, author Stephen Brumwell depicts a well researched, unbiased image of: war, hardship, courage, savagery, vengeance, and survival. Brumwell wants to show his readers an image of the true nature of war and all the trimmings that goes along with it. There has never been a war where atrocities were not committed. Further more, there has never been a war where the atrocities were not committed by all sides, to one extent or another. This war was no different. This compelling read draws from a broad range of primary sources, including Rogers' Journals, contemporary newspaper accounts, the letters and remembrances of Rogers' surviving Rangers, and several generations of Abenaki oral history.
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In Harry Mulisch’s novel The Assault, the author not only informs society of the variance in perception of good and evil, but also provides evidence on how important it is for an innocent person experiencing guilt to come to terms with their personal past. First, Mulisch uses the characters Takes, Coster, and Ploeg to express the differences in perspective on the night of the assault. Then he uses Anton to express how one cannot hide from the past because of their guilt. Both of these lessons are important to Mulisch and worth sharing with his readers.
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“The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe is a story of revenge on the outside, but when on the inside, it is something deeper. His stories are dark and sometimes, like in “The Cask of Amontillado,” deadly. Poe’s main focus in “The Cask of Amontillado” is revenge, but if examined more closely, the irony that is present foreshadows the end result for Fortunato. In “The Cask of Amontillado” the Montresor is planning to seek revenge on Fortunato for “the thousand injuries.” The revenge results in the live burial of Fortunato, the actual reasoning is left a mystery, but this story goes to prove that things that one does can always come back ...
guilt, greed, betrayal, and murder are no strangers. In this story an honorable warrior and
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While getting inspiration for Monte Cristo, he heard a story about a man, which inspired the plot for his novel. Picaud, the man whom inspired the story, gained vengeance in a much more gruesome way than Dantes does. Picaud takes vengeance whereas Dantes is avenged. Justice is achieved because good is stronger than evil, not because of the Count’s power (Stowe 125). Perhaps this is Dumas’s opinion on vengeance. If it is well earned, then it will fall into the man’s hands rightfully (Maurois). Dumas’s inspiration for the novel also came from his personal life. His father was heavily mistreated, and as he watched helplessly for his whole childhood, it became important to him to avenge his father. Although people in his own life may not have wronged him as they did his father, he believes in revenge, and sought revenge through his literature (Maurois). Through the character of Edmond Dantes, Dumas portrayed his own desire to justify his father’s oppressors. In Maurois’s article, he speaks about this, saying, “He must have been sorely tempted to find compensation in fiction for the iniquities of the real world.” Perhaps he was afraid to vocalize his opinion publicly, so he decided on a more subtle route, which was to create a story that everyone could identify with. Writing Monte Cristo must have been closure for Dumas at the expense of his father. He sought vengeance in the form of literature
Edgar Allen Poe’s tale of murder and revenge, “The Cask of Amontillado”, offers a unique perspective into the mind of a deranged murderer. The effectiveness of the story is largely due to its first person point of view, which allows the reader a deeper involvement into the thoughts and motivations of the protagonist, Montresor. The first person narration results in an unbalanced viewpoint on the central conflict of the story, man versus man, because the reader knows very little about the thoughts of the antagonist, Fortunato. The setting of “The Cask of Amontillado”, in the dark catacombs of Montresor’s wine cellar, contributes to the story’s theme that some people will go to great lengths to fanatically defend their honor.
The passage from “ The Count of Monte Cristo” and the scene from the play “ Blessings” both provide a distinct theme by the end of the passage.
Throughout history, normal-everyday people rise to power, only to coerce or ruin a society and its morals. There are also some who rise and fight back. In stories and in real life, these “heroes” who fight back usually end up dead. Even today, a martyr’s sacrifice is essential in most of society’s changes.