Monte Cassino

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…

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…

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…

treason and sentenced Dantès to fourteen years of pain and sorrow in the Chateau d’If, France’s 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…

Sports Tourism: 2017 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters Sports tourism is a growing and worthwhile field that allows spectators to either watch or actively participate in their favorite sport. For tennis fans, one of the ultimate experiences is spectating the 2017 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters. In order to fulfill the wishes of many tennis fans, a sports tourism organization named Destination Tennis has agreed to take 10 tennis spectators to this tournament. To do so, Destination Tennis must have a clear…

Heroes are classified in one of the three archetypes, epic, tragic, or romantic. In the Count of Monte Cristo, the Odyssey, and Thor, the main characters, Edmond Dantes, Odysseus, and Thor respectively, all represent the different types of heroes. Alexandre Dumas, Homer, and Kenneth Branagh all portray their hero’s archetype throughout their pieces of literature. Edmond’s revenge, Odysseus’ travel, and Thor’s battles all make these characters special heroes. Authors create diverse archetypal…

Noirtier is a character that is often first seen as insignificant; in the book The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. While this view could true, he has a larger role. Noirtier had paralysis and could not speak, but only blink. Blinking is taken for guaranteed by most, but when this is all a person can do, they will utilize it to their best ability. Even with this debility he managed to do a substantial amount of work for those who needed it. He is put in this book to show someone will do…