Fear In The Count Of Monte Cristo
Facades Fall to Fear In Alexandre Dumas’, Count of Monte Cristo, every character is putting up a front, façade, or fake persona. People with fabricated personalities are the only ones who believe their lies while everyone else sees through it. Dantes sees this pattern in his adversaries as they provide him with a Utopian idea, but in reality Edmond is able to read between the lines and use this against them. As always quoted, fear is your greatest enemy as it never goes away. Fear is always there while your actual enemy fades away. The greatest fear is the fear out of the realm of control. Dantes utilizes fear to gain victory over his opponents as they are used to dominance, but loss of control causes them to unravel and Dantes to pull back
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As Fernand’s son and the Count were becoming good friends, the Count arranged for the secret of Fernand’s past to come out as Albert was away from the city. When they leave Beauchamp rushes out to their vacation spot and tells Albert to come home for his father has been revealed. When Albert hears this his reaction is surprise, “My friend, my life is finished.” (Dumas 300). The revelation of Morcerf secret is a horrifying reality for him and son, as the facade falls. Once the Morcerf facade crumbles the family is done, status is loss, and are once regular again. This lowers Fernand back to his original state and Mercedes realizes she made a mistake and regrets marrying him. The biggest thing for Fernand was to have everyone treat him exceptionally for his title and name, but when it is taken from him, Mondego realizes that his fear has caught up with him and he has nowhere to hide from his shame. He has lost everything in a split second, just because of fear. Not only that, but the betrayal of Ali Pasha was a secret he thought that he was the only one keeping it forgotten. The evidence of the secret he believes was insufficient and outdated. But when Haydee …show more content…
Only one man was able to conquer his fear , Edmond Dantes, the source of demise. Dante uses his past fear and morphs it into a tool of dominance. From Fernando to Villefort, fear went from a thought to reality and was the cause of destruction. Remember fear is always following its beholder no matter what. The past is never forgotten only repressed. So, face the obstacle now or it will be faced
As Fernand’s son and the Count were becoming good friends, the Count arranged for the secret of Fernand’s past to come out as Albert was away from the city. When they leave Beauchamp rushes out to their vacation spot and tells Albert to come home for his father has been revealed. When Albert hears this his reaction is surprise, “My friend, my life is finished.” (Dumas 300). The revelation of Morcerf secret is a horrifying reality for him and son, as the facade falls. Once the Morcerf facade crumbles the family is done, status is loss, and are once regular again. This lowers Fernand back to his original state and Mercedes realizes she made a mistake and regrets marrying him. The biggest thing for Fernand was to have everyone treat him exceptionally for his title and name, but when it is taken from him, Mondego realizes that his fear has caught up with him and he has nowhere to hide from his shame. He has lost everything in a split second, just because of fear. Not only that, but the betrayal of Ali Pasha was a secret he thought that he was the only one keeping it forgotten. The evidence of the secret he believes was insufficient and outdated. But when Haydee …show more content…
Only one man was able to conquer his fear , Edmond Dantes, the source of demise. Dante uses his past fear and morphs it into a tool of dominance. From Fernando to Villefort, fear went from a thought to reality and was the cause of destruction. Remember fear is always following its beholder no matter what. The past is never forgotten only repressed. So, face the obstacle now or it will be faced