The Count of Monte Cristo Analysis
Glenn Boswell
January 19, 2014
English 2
Pages in Book: 531
The Count of Monte Cristo
Introduction
The Count of Monte Cristo was written by Alexandre Dumas. It was first published in 1844. More recently, it was published by Bantam Dell in 1956 in New York, New York. The book I read was translated by Lowell Bair. The story takes place in the 1800s in France, Italy and on the Island of Monte Cristo. The setting is during the period in France when Napoleon Bonaparte returns to power after being exiled to the Island of Elba, called the Hundred Days, and after, when King Louis XVIII returns to power for the second time. At that point, Napoleon is exiled to the island of Saint Helena.
Major Characters
(Note: There is not much physical description of the characters in the book).
The protagonist of the story is Edmond Dantes. Dantes takes on many aliases throughout the book, including: Count of Monte Cristo, Sinbad the Sailor, Abbe Busoni, Lord Wilmore, and a chief banking clerk at Thomson and French. When the story begins, Dantes is a young sailor who sales for Pierre Morrel on the ship called the Pharoan. He is liked by everybody, and is a well respected sailor, and intends to marry a beautiful girl named Mercedes. Later in the book, after he is betrayed by his friends, he becomes the Count of Monte Cristo and plays the various aliases, looking for retribution. As the Count, he is vengeful and calculating, and takes matters into his own hands, but he is also generous. He sees himself as an angel of God, deciding who will be rewarded and who will be destroyed. He says to one of his former friends, “God gives me strength to subdue wild beasts like you. I act in the name of God.” (p.337) The book describes him as tall and thin with dark eyes and long dark hair.
Gerard de Villefort is a prosecutor who sentences Dantes to prison at the Chateau d’If under the court of law. Villefort originally told Dantes that he would not be jailed, but later changed his mind for
January 19, 2014
English 2
Pages in Book: 531
The Count of Monte Cristo
Introduction
The Count of Monte Cristo was written by Alexandre Dumas. It was first published in 1844. More recently, it was published by Bantam Dell in 1956 in New York, New York. The book I read was translated by Lowell Bair. The story takes place in the 1800s in France, Italy and on the Island of Monte Cristo. The setting is during the period in France when Napoleon Bonaparte returns to power after being exiled to the Island of Elba, called the Hundred Days, and after, when King Louis XVIII returns to power for the second time. At that point, Napoleon is exiled to the island of Saint Helena.
Major Characters
(Note: There is not much physical description of the characters in the book).
The protagonist of the story is Edmond Dantes. Dantes takes on many aliases throughout the book, including: Count of Monte Cristo, Sinbad the Sailor, Abbe Busoni, Lord Wilmore, and a chief banking clerk at Thomson and French. When the story begins, Dantes is a young sailor who sales for Pierre Morrel on the ship called the Pharoan. He is liked by everybody, and is a well respected sailor, and intends to marry a beautiful girl named Mercedes. Later in the book, after he is betrayed by his friends, he becomes the Count of Monte Cristo and plays the various aliases, looking for retribution. As the Count, he is vengeful and calculating, and takes matters into his own hands, but he is also generous. He sees himself as an angel of God, deciding who will be rewarded and who will be destroyed. He says to one of his former friends, “God gives me strength to subdue wild beasts like you. I act in the name of God.” (p.337) The book describes him as tall and thin with dark eyes and long dark hair.
Gerard de Villefort is a prosecutor who sentences Dantes to prison at the Chateau d’If under the court of law. Villefort originally told Dantes that he would not be jailed, but later changed his mind for