Alexandre Dumas was one of the most successful authors of the nineteenth century. He confronted poverty, lack of education opportunities, and countless racist occurrences. His books have been translated into hundreds of languages, and are still popular to this day. Many of which books have been made into films, including the count of monte cristo and the 1993 three disney film, the three musketeers. The discrimination Dumas experienced was usually subtle but aggravating. Dumas used his intelligence to counter bigoted occasions. A study in Alexandre Dumas reveals a rather arbitrary , yet educated and orderly persona of a man, and shows the way he embedded his thoughts into his writing, which distinguished him from other writers for hundreds of years.
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He yearned for the same reaction from people reading his thoughts. Despite the prejudice he would face, he used productive techniques to win his battles. His thoughts go against not only society's disfigurement of illegitimacy and divorce, but also addresses the problem of racism in his time. Dumas was impassioned by all forms of social injustice and is seen as a political activist. Despite the educated aura that emits from the name Alexandre Dumas, he was a somewhat twisted man that was extremely talented in getting results in an abnormal fashion. In july of 1830, the barricades went up all over Paris to protest the reign of the conservative bourbon King, Charles X. Dumas acquired two pistols and dashed into the street to join the protest. He commanded a coach for the town of soissons, where he forced the local commander to hand over a supposed store of over two hundred pounds of gunpowder. Dumas also broke down a wooden door with a battle a and found himself surrounded by more than a ton of
He yearned for the same reaction from people reading his thoughts. Despite the prejudice he would face, he used productive techniques to win his battles. His thoughts go against not only society's disfigurement of illegitimacy and divorce, but also addresses the problem of racism in his time. Dumas was impassioned by all forms of social injustice and is seen as a political activist. Despite the educated aura that emits from the name Alexandre Dumas, he was a somewhat twisted man that was extremely talented in getting results in an abnormal fashion. In july of 1830, the barricades went up all over Paris to protest the reign of the conservative bourbon King, Charles X. Dumas acquired two pistols and dashed into the street to join the protest. He commanded a coach for the town of soissons, where he forced the local commander to hand over a supposed store of over two hundred pounds of gunpowder. Dumas also broke down a wooden door with a battle a and found himself surrounded by more than a ton of