Identity in The Count of Monte Cristo An identity is more than just a name. Sometimes an identity is the first thing and possible the only thing a person notices about one or the other. A person's identity can represent their culture, their race and sometimes, even possible their family background. My identity is what represents me. For those who does not know me personally but knows my name, knows my identity. This identity is what people will recognize me as for now and possible for ever. When
the novel, The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas, the main character, Edmond Dantes, faces an injustice that transforms his compassion into cruelty. Taking place during the downfall of Napoleon, the novel illustrates the power of status, wealth, and political opinions in French society through Edmond Dantes’ misfortunes and victories. After withstanding fourteen years in the Chateau’ d’If prison and acquiring an immense fortune, Dantes begins his plot for revenge. The Count is completely justified
is written as a collection of journals, which are kept in a wide array of methods, letters and newspaper clippings. Dracula opens in Eastern Europe with a young solisitor named Jonathan Harker traveling to Transylvanian castle. The castle’s owner, Count Dracula, is cruel in the manner of great evil, and uses Harker to have himself safely ferried to England and its fertile hunting ground of London. Dracula soon becomes embroiled in the lives of a small group of friends who see him for the fiend that