This historical context in this novel impacts the understanding of characters, plot, events, and conflict. The French revolution was taking place during the time in which Dantes was thrown into prison. Dantes had gotten himself thrown into jail because he was thought to be working for the Bonapartist party “with a letter to the Bonapartist party of Paris” (Dumas 23). They people around him were for King Louis XVI and despised the other party. Also this was during the time when food was becoming scarce and riots from lower class citizens begun to break out. If Edmond Dantes had went straight away to Paris rather than staying in his town, he would have not been jailed for fourteen years. It helps people understand the horror that was going on
