Devotion in Motion and the Melody of Fidelity: How Loyalty Plays a Part in The Count of Monte Cristo Noah Mr. Alig English I‚ Period 4 03/01/12 We live in a world where fidelity and commitment are hard to come by. Every day we see sleazy politicians lying to our faces on television‚ and the media twisting people’s words for the sake of entertainment. Mimicking our world‚ in The Count of Monte Cristo you can scarcely go a page without someone backstabbing someone else or some clandestine
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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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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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Racism: Black vs. White During the 1930s in Maycomb County‚ everyone treated each other differently. People judged traits other people based on their skin color. White people thought that all black people were not smart. Blacks did not want whites in their social circles. Both groups kept each other at a distance‚ mostly due to ignorance‚ each not willing to understand the other as a real person. Atticus Finch was an exception in his defense of Tom Robinson. He treated him as a man‚ not a black man
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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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Erona Zeqiri Equal Vengeance How far would a person go to get revenge on someone who has done wrong to them? Hammurabi’s code states ‘an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth’. In Alexander Dumas disguise and justice novel‚ The Count of Monte Cristo‚ the main character is Edmond Dantes. Dantes is a young 19-year-old and is soon-to-be captain of the Pharaon‚ after Captain Leclere dies of brain fever off the Isle of I1 Giglio. Dantes is imprisoned when a suspicious letter is sent to Villefort
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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 Edmond is sailing in French waters along with his best friend Fernand‚ when their captain falls ill. They stop for help at a nearby island‚ which happens to be where Napolean Bonaparte is in hiding. Bonaparte pulls aside Edmond and asks him to deliver an innocent letter to an old friend in Marseille‚ France.Edmond agrees‚ as that is the price for the use of Napolean’s physician. The captain unfortunately dies‚ so the crew returns home to Marseille. Edmond is made captain
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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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Romanticism Revived and Revealed in The Count of Monte Cristo The film of The Count of Monte Cristo directed by Kevin Reynolds embodies a wide range of characteristics specific to romantic literature such as a love of nature‚ a respect for primitivism‚ and a value of the common man. Almost immediately‚ another romantic idea is revealed: the distinct separation between the working and aristocratic class‚ along with the belief that many of the ill wills of society result from this privileged upper
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