Edmond Dantès

Villefort: Antagonist. Villefort’s priorities are disillusioned from the start. His exceeding ambition and unwavering job loyalty, leads him to take extreme measures. Disowning his father and sentencing Dantès to imprisonment for life does little to disavow his objectionable reputation. During Dantès’ imprisonment, Villefort arranges a politically advantageous marriage and becomes Deputy Minister of France. When his affair with Madame Danglars bears him a son, Villefort’s utter disrespect for…

A study found in The Journal Of American Psychology states that people spend an average of 14 hours each day plotting revenge for someone who has wronged them (“Study”). Something on people’s minds so often should be healthy for humans, right? Not necessarily. Vengeance is a common goal in motion picture entertainment and pop culture, but the negative effects are not highlighted. Statistics also show that revenge is the cause of multiple horrifying events.“Revenge has been cited as a factor in…

far. I loved how Alexandre Dumas (the author) wrote out the revenge plot and how complex it was. For the movie, I watched the 1975 version, and to sum it up in one sentence, it was nothing like the book. In the Count of Monte Cristo, Edmond Dantes is arrested mainly for the jealousy of his “friends” or really his enemies. They want to have the things he has so they send a letter to arrest him for treason. Edmund then coming back years later to get revenge on the people who took his…

People are often left to wonder how much control they have over the events and circumstances in their own lives. The extent to which they can control their lives is massively varied from situation to situation. The short story, ”Two Kinds,” by Amy Tan, the book, The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas, and the short story,”The Pedestrian,” by Ray Bradbury, all demonstrate different instances in which the lives of their characters have varying amounts of control over their lives. The…

“People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people”. In the film V for Vendetta directed by James McTeigue, the mask which is worn by V and later many others, pushes the idea that if one believes the government has too much power over society, they should work to demote it. V was tortured for years at a place called Larkhill by doctors and scientists that worked for the government and tested subjects who the authorities view as unwanted or unfavorable…

Today are more than eleven million of immigrants that live undocumented in the United States. In fact, all those immigrants have to deal every day with an insecure situation that affects their whole lives. The author of Undocumented Dan-el Padilla Peralta described with interesting details his undocumented life. He came from the Dominican Republic to live in the USA with his family. Dan-el faced with a different reality from his family life in the original country. Being undocumented in the…

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The Dystopian Fiction genre is one of the most compelling genres of literature available to the average reader. This is because these types of stories often depict very high-stakes types of themes such as the future of humanity, the will of the individual, oppression, and the ability of individuals to come together to accomplish a singular goal. Generally these types of stories feature a totalitarian government that engages in mind-control and propaganda programs while also harshly punishing all…

Every person can never fully move on to the next step of their feasible life because of one aspect: their piquing and blind-sighting compulsions. Compulsion, or addiction, plays an important role as one of the themes throughout the entire novel titled, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by one of America’s greatest writers in all of its history, Mark Twain. As the novel acts as an extension of Mark Twain’s other publication, The Adventures of Tom…