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In addition, though Dracula succeeds in transforming the three vampire women and Lucy into perverse vampires, he fails in transforming Mina Harker, the heroine. This is because “the world seems full of good men—even if there are monsters in it” (Stoker 209). Mina’s character is the epitome of what the New Woman is. For example, she is intelligent and hard working, accepting the technological advances and utilizing them to aid in tracking down Dracula. However, with this in mind, Mina is still…

8. "Mercedes was left alone. Bathed in tears, she was seen ceaselessly wandering around the little village of the Catalans, sometimes standing motionless in the blazing heat of the southern sun, sometimes sitting on the beach listening to the eternal moaning of the sea asking herself whether it would not be better to let herself sink into the depths rather than undergo the cruel suffering of a wait without hope" (Dumas 40). The narrator is describing Mercedes life without Edmond. This quote is…

F.S.’s vulnerability is considered a level 1 - highly vulnerable state. F.S. is susceptible, unprotected, and fragile due to the infection in his pancreas. The increased white blood count can make F.S at risk for antibiotic resistance if the medical team cannot find an antibiotic effective enough to stop the infection from spreading. Having a comorbid condition such as high blood pressure or diabetes mellitus type 2 also increases the…

In Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo, a young sailor by the name of Edmond Dantés is wrongly accused of being a Bonapartist and is thrown in jail where he discovers the truth of his enslavement and concocts a plan for revenge. The choices that Edmond Dantés makes drastically twists his once ordinary life into a whirlwind of secrecy, such as deciding to take a letter to Napoleon, from there delivering a message from Napoleon to one of Napoleon’s allies. Once imprisoned, Danéts meets a…

1974 and 2000 three in five school shootings in the United States were driven by vengeance” (Jaffe). Although revenge is people’s natural instinct, it emotionally damages the avenger as well as those involved, which is seen in both Hamlet and The Count of Monte Cristo. The emotions that result from revenge have been researched and proven through many studies. The outcome is expected to be…

How far exactly are you willing to go to get justice from someone who has wronged you? Would your answer change if getting that justice meant losing your morals and values in the process? In the novel, The Count of Monte Cristo, written by Alexandre Dumas, the protagonist, Edmond Dantes plans and then executes revenge on the people who threw him in jail for a crime he didn’t commit. Driven by blind rage and thirst for vengeance, Dantes abandons his naivety and innocence in pursuit for his…

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…

most notorious prison. When Dantès eventually escapes, he sets out on a quest to avenge himself by making his enemies suffer just as he did. In The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas uses figurative language and imagery to explore the theme of vengeance. The first example of figurative language presents itself in the form of an allusion when the count,…

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…

make a perfect corresponding revenge and justice, shows that revenge is not justice. After the Count of Monte Cristo coordinates his plan, and discreetly manipulates Madame Villefort into ruining her family, it leads to some complications and problems that he did not intend to happen. After Marquise de Saint Meran was poisoned, which was a big problem; a servant was killed, which was another problem. The Count of Monte Cristo obviously did not intend for those two deaths to occur. His original…