Alexandre Manette

The Count of Monte Cristo is an excellent movie, displaying revenge and forgiveness. The movie takes place in the 1800’s, during the ruling of Napoleon. Counties were still extremely secretive with the way they did things, and treason was a huge thing. The setting takes place in the nineteenth century of France in large and populous cities. This was a time of great disruption. There was confusion all over the land to who led France. Was it King Louis or Napoleon? “In 1814, the French Emperor…

Braxton Jackson 3rd Period English December 2, 2016 The Count of Monte Cristo
 In The Count of Monte Cristo protagonist Edmond Dumas takes a journey from innocence to experience. Author Alexander Dumas takes Edmond on a path to maturation. On Dantes path to maturation he goes through many obstacles and changes. Some of which involve Intellectual, Social, Spiritual, and also Wordly changes. Alexander Dumas (author of the novel) describes this journey in chronological order to take the reader…

“But when the general left the ranks for France, he was captured, imprisoned and poisoned by the enemy... Freed after an 1801 armistice, he was denied back pay and a military pension by Napoleon” (Foote-Greenwell, “The Life and Resurrection of Alexandre Dumas”). This is extremely similar to the background of Edmond Dantés. He is convicted on charges relating to conspiring with Napoleon. As spoken by Villefort regarding Dantés as a Bonapartist: “‘[Dantés] had made a secret trip to the Isle of…

After being betrayed by his friends, Edmond Dantes finds its best fitting to take it upon himself and the wrath of God to get revenge over all those who have wronged him. Edmond changes not only his personality but also his identity many times throughout the novel to seek revenge on his enemies. As his heart changes and his awareness around him becomes stronger, nothing can stop this man from seeking revenge until all justice is served. Edmond will do anything to finally see justice given to…

Lacanian theory is controversial almost everywhere it goes. Agree or disagree, there is no shortage of discussion on the validity of Lacan’s work. His concept of the “mirror stage” (or phase) is one of the most significant theories in film study. However, the theory itself opens some interesting doors in terms of its definition. In an age where self-definition has become more important than ever, it must be discussed that Lacan’s mirror phase is no longer just one moment in the development of…

Edmond Dantes’ adversity helps his character in The Count of Monte Cristo because at the beginning of the story, Edmond is a playful yet innocent man who cared deeply about his friends and his father. After his is put on trial and sent to jail this toughened his character greatly. He also needed to create a new identity after he faked his death in jail and wants to seek revenge. Before prison, Dantes was a worker on a ship. He worked very diligently and followed his captains orders and…

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…

In The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and a scene from Blessings by Mary Hall Surfaces, the two pieces of text show the common theme of importance of friendship, as both the protagonists, Jesse from Blessings and Edmond of The Count Of Monte Cristo, both face challenges and remain faithful because of friendly friendships they form. In The Count Of Monte Cristo, Edmond is a prisoner, wanting and hoping to get out of the prison he is in. The jailer, Dantes, starts to form a friendship…

Heaven, we were all going direct the other way. ” Either way, Dr.Manette was recalled to life, not sleep. He was recalled to sanity, not senselessness. He was recalled to love, not loathe. He was recalled to comfortability, not discomfort. Dr. Alexandre Manette was an ethical doctor with a respectable practice and loving wife who lost everything for eighteen years. Dr.Manette spent eighteen years "in secret" as a hostage in the Bastille before the French Revolution. He was held as a prisoner…

Conscious and Unconscious Mind in A Tale of Two Cities Just as it was “the best of times and the worst of times” in pre-revolutionary France, Doctor Alexandre Manette had the best of personalities and the worst of personalities. In the novel, A Tale of Two Cities, Sigmund Freud’s theories of the conscious and unconscious mind can be applied to Dr. Alexandre Manette in order to expose an understanding of the spoken and unspoken desires of the human mind. Dr. Manette's ceaseless inner conflict…