The Count of Monte Cristo

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…

horrors and cruelty of the world. They may have seen evils in their lives, however they choose to remain optimistic and believe that there is good in everyone and maybe even no one would cause them harm. In the beginning of Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo, Edmond Dantes fits that description in its entirety. Edmond Dantes is loyal and kind to almost a fault and has a strong charisma that he unwittingly utilizes. One of the traits that most defines Dantes before his rebirth and that…

Crashing Waves Will Calm The Count of Monte Cristo was a well written, old timey, kind of on the verge of corney, produced movie. The characters had unique attributes and the plot was creatively constructed in a way that made the viewer think. The movie was a classic tale about an innocent man who is falsely accused and sentenced to prison. He nearly loses his mind until he meets a quirky individual who claims to be an priest. The priest and the innocent man form a friendship and the priest…

in the world today. In the book The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, characters are making unethical decisions left and right.…

The films The Count of Monte Cristo (CMC) and Shawshank Redemption (SSR) share the theme of a man who is unjustly imprisoned for a severe crime; however the two films are truly quite different. Between the films there are a few basic elements that contribute to the theme, such as; the crimes that the protagonists Edmond Dantès and Andy Dufresne are imprisoned for, what the two men wish to do when they escape prison, and the life that they lead after they gain their liberty.…

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…

Baron de Montesquieu was born on January 19, 1689, at La Brède, in southwest France to a wealthy family. He was educated at Oratorian Collège de Juilly and received a law degree from the University of Bordeaux in 1708. When his father died in 1713 he went back to La Brède to manage his estates and money. That was the main source of Montesquieu’s wealth. Montesquieu died during 1755 of a fever in Paris, France (Bok). Baron de Montesquieu was an Enlightenment thinker during the Enlightenment…

Comparing the movies The Count of Monte Cristo and Shawshank Redemption share a lot of similar qualities in the realm of revenge as its main theme. In the film Shawshank Redemption the main character Andy Dufrense is accused of shooting his wife and lover yet he remained unable to recollect any memory of such actions and therefore he is falsely accused and imprisoned. In the movie The Count of Monte Cristo’s the protagonist Edmond Dante is decived by his falsely claimed best friend which in…

Revenge in Dante's life Revenge is a powerful thing to want. It consumes people, and can make them forget the important things going on around them. They think that they are getting justice for themselves. When really sometimes revenge is as pointless as putting out a fire with gas. A man named Edmond Dantes was wrongly imprisoned for 14 years. In those years Dantes sat in a prison called the Château d'If, he thought of many different ways to get revenge on his enemies. The men he thought he…

Confessions starts off by Rousseau telling us how he grew up in Geneva, Switzerland. Even though he was a bit of a trouble maker he was very kind at heart. His dad also has a knack for getting in trouble and when he get into trouble with the law, that forces his dad to flee Geneva forcing Rousseau to have to move in with his cousin to study Latin and build illegal aqueducts. Rousseau tries his hand at a few professions as an apprentice, but he's just not a fan of the working life. A mysterious…