Power is like confidence, the more you have, the more successful you will be. In this book, a man named Edmond Dantes is brought down by three men and later, gains the power to defeat them. In the Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, the author uses figurative language and diction to portray the theme of power. To begin with, the first form of figurative language Dumas uses to show power is irony. After Maximilian threatens to commit suicide the first time the count stops him,”’Try and stop me then!’ cried Maximilian,” and he continued with, “still struggling to reach his pistols powerless in count’s grip,”(Dumas 447). This is irony because as Maximilian cries out to “stop me” when he has already been stopped by the count. This is an
