In this book, The Count of Monte Cristo, many readers find the use of honesty in the novel to be problematic. The Count of Monte Cristo or in other words Dantes, is dishonest by lying to everyone about who he is. Because he was in prison for such a long time, his looks changed and when he got out no one knew who he was. As everyone is thinking that Dantes is dead from prison, he really escaped and changed his name to The Count of Monte Cristo. Changing his name was a way to disguise him from being Dantes. After being locked up for so long, no one knew who he was. This disguise kept him from not having to go back to prison, and also helped with getting revenge on those who sent him to prison for no reason. In this novel, since Dantes was not able to be recognized, he used this dishonesty to back at Danglars, Mercedes, Benedetto, and Caderousse. Dantes isn’t just being dishonest to these people so that he doesn’t go back to prison, but also to get revenge on them. For instance, Danglars never liked Dantes. Danglars and other men wanted Dantes sent away. Danglars doesn’t like Dantes b...
Jealous of Dantes’ love life, he helped to write and deliver the letter that got Dantes arrested so that he could marry Mercedes. In addition to this, he neglected Dantes’ father so that Mercedes would pay attention to him and only him. As Fernand became a successful smuggler and eventually but illegally got very rich, he betrayed a man named Ali Pasha in exchange for money. In turn, the Count made Ali his personal servant and exposed Fernand to the national newspaper, as the newspaper published a testimony against Fernand that read “It has come to our attention that a french officer had betrayed his benefactor, Ali Pasha, to the Turks. This officer was known at that time as Fernand Mondego, but he now calls himself the Count of Morcerf and is a member of the chamber” (Dantes 351). This marks the beginning of the end for Fernand, as the Count publicly exposes him, showing how he is a traitor and a murderer. In addition, the Count also explains how Fernand is a fraud and that he bought his title through illegal smuggling instead of earning his title. This heap of legal trouble causes Fernand to kill himself, essentially marking a successful plan of revenge from the Count. However, the Count did have some doubts about his motivations of revenge on Fernand, as he knew it
“Humble yourself or life will do it for you.” Having too much pride can cause karma to hit you very hard in life. The Count of Monte Cristo and Ozymandias are very common because they have very similar themes of being humble instead of having too much ego. In The Count of Monte Cristo Edmond Dantes, the main character, is in love with a beautiful young lady, Mercedes. His life is going very good to begin with anyway. He was promoted to captain of the Pharaon and was now making much more money than he used to be making. Although Edmond was a very happy and sympathetic person, some people were very envious of him. So Ferdinand, Danglars, and Caderousse, which were envious for very diverse reasons, decided to write a letter to the public prosecutor stating edmond’s visit to The Isle of Elba actually did indeed happen. The public prosecutor, Villefort, sees that the letter was intended to be
The wedding was all set! The music was ready; the food was ready; the groom was ready. The wedding was set for Thursday. It was all well planned. The only thing that was left was the bride. Wait, where was the bride? No one could find the bride anywhere! Everyone looked and looked, but they couldn’t find the bride! The bride was nowhere to be found! Suddenly a voice from the nurse said, “Alas, alas! Help, Help! My lady’s dead!—(IV,5,17) The bride was dead; she was dead! What were they going to do now? Everything was set, but the bride was dead! It was a tragedy, and the wedding couldn’t keep going. This is the story of Romeo and Juliet. Juliet was not really dead; she was just faking her death so the other people thought that she was dead so she didn’t have to marry Paris. It was a risky move. She was dishonest to her parents and didn’t obey them. Although this time she wasn’t dead, she would soon be later on in the play. Although it can be very hard to be honest, we need to be honest. Being dishonest can lead to bad consequences like the death in the story of Romeo and Juliet.
An act of dishonesty carried out by haste can result in very unlikely consequences to an individual’s life. Firstly, the dishonesty of Friar Lawrence in choosing to marry Romeo and Juliet without the knowledge or permission of their parents, results in undesirable after effects. Secondly, the sudden cessation of support from Juliet’s Nurse, to continue the relationship of Romeo and Juliet causes harm to Juliet’s feelings as a young lover and contributes to their fatality. Finally, Romeo’s haste to marry Juliet to prove his intentions, accounts for a future filled with even more hasty decisions. In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the dishonesty of Friar Lawrence and Nurse and the haste of Romeo and Juliet, results in the deaths of the young lovers.
Have you ever imagined a world without any family or your annoying friends texting you every second. In today’s technologically advanced world the answer is probably no, because communication via technology is ubiquitous, whether you live in the deserts of Africa or New York city. But this technology did not exist in 1929 during the era of depression. John Steinbeck’s Of mice and men depicts solitude and the distrustful nature of mankind during the Great Depression. This sense of isolation is best portrayed by Crooks and Candy.
Throughout his journey Dante the pilgrims meets different souls who share their gruesome stories, and Dante the pilgrim does initially sympathize with them. Eventually as he gets lower into hell he does not pity the souls anymore. In Canto three Dante states "Inscribed on the lintel of an archway, master I said, this saying 's hard for me."(Inferno, III; 11-12). The claim can be made that Dante is very different from the dammed souls he sees in hell, and he is aware of that. In a way Dante sort of separates himself from those souls he meets. A single minded mentality is born unlike in Beowulf where his pride helps him to solve a problem that will help his
"The Count of Monte Cristo" is a book which contains few characters but many identities. Edmond Dantes if not the main character, than one of the main characters kind of has a reality dysfunctional problem. In the book, Edmond Dantes creates various identities to fulfill his missions(fantasies). One of the few characters that Edmond Dantes transformed into was Sinbad the Sailor.
While he lies on the ground gasping for breath, Caderousse tells the Abbe Busoni that he does not believe in God. Only moments later, Edmond Dantes reveals himself to him, and he spends his dying breath asking the Lord to forgive him. Edmond Dantes, looking at his corpse, whispers “one”. This was the first evident moment in Alexandre Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo where Edmond Dantes achieves any justification on his enemies for the wrongs they have done to him. After twenty years of meticulous planning, Dantes carries out his plan of ultimate revenge on his enemies in order to achieve the justice he believes he deserves. In his novel, Dumas shows that to obtain true justice—whether personal or societal—one must understand the limits of
Of all wrongdoings, Dante loathes betrayal the most; he cannot stand the politically unfaithful and makes a point of it by placing such sinners from his own home in circle nine of Hell, where the treacherous dwell. Here resides Carlino de' Pazzi, a man who betrayed his party for a bribe. We also come across Bocca degli Abati, a traitor; Dante's decision to place this man in the last circle of Hell illustrates the loyalty he maintains to his own morals.
In his Divine Comedy, Dante portrays two main types of characters along his journey. There are characters that provide false or misleading information, who are found mainly in the Inferno and the Purgatorio, and those who provide honest and beneficial information, found in the Purgatorio and Paradiso. Almost every personage Dante encounters can be easily assigned to one of these two categories. For instance, Francesca da Rimini clearly provides bad council to Dante when she attempts to gain his sympathy for her predicament. Similarly, Beatrice is a paragon of righteousness who aims to bring Dante back from his sojourn of the upright path when Dante had l...
Finally, Matt de la Peña shows the character’s motivation through dialogue. One day Dante finally confronts the narrator.
Dantès knew there was a possibility that the people around him would be plotting against him, however, being so trusting he completely ignored this warning. While Dantes is at sea Alexandre Dumas mentions that Dantes and Danglars were in a quarrel. Danglars is jealous that Dantes is such a young man, and is going to be awarded the position of captaincy. Thus, Danglars determines to put an end to Dantes’ prosperous career. Before Dantès went away to sea, he owed a debt to Caderousse which he had not paid.
Here Dante is gassed on by Virgil because he shows pity to the souls in Hell. Since God is the one who sends souls to Hell, Virgil thinks that Dante believes God has made the wrong choice. Throughout the poem we see Dante change his views; he comes to realize that those who are in Hell truly belong there. We see people on the street and feel pity for them, but we don 't stop to think how they got there; it might just be part of God’s ultimate plan.
The phrase “Sooner or later; The good are rewarded and the wicked are punished” (Dumas pg. 97), captures the the counts goals of not rushing or giving up and letting time work for you. Not giving up and taking control of his life has lead the count to reaching his goals. In the beginning of the book, Dantes was swimming through the waters outside of Chateau u d'If is noted of having the, "The presence of mind to hold his breath and rip open the sack”(Dumas pg. 80). This show how Dantes determination and effort lead to him getting the revenge on the bad men in his life. The use of diction in The Count of Monte Cristo gives examples of how preserving through the bad parts of life can lead people to their
... He could be placed in his own circle of the corrupt politics, for he was banished for choosing the side that lost the political struggle for Florence. He could be placed in his own circle of the false prophets, for he envisions the afterlife, without receiving God’s revelation. He could be placed in his own circle of the hypocrites, for placing people in hell, while he himself has committed their sins. Despite the obvious flaws of Dante himself, he does give a clear vision of how punishments will be taken forth in the afterlife.