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Alexandre Dumas
In this story, Edmond Dantes is an innocent man who was caught in the intrigues of Napoleon's escape from Elba and his 100 days of power until Waterloo.A sailor entrusted with a sealed letter of highest importance by his dying captain, Dantes delivers it into the hands of the evil prosecutor Villefort who, for reasons unkown to him, immediately sends him without trial or appeal to spend the rest of his days at the Chateau d’If: a dark and isolated island
prison presumed to be inescapable.With the help of Abbot Faria, a dying prisoner who knows the secret of a great hidden treasure on the small islet of Monte Cristo, Dantes escapes and prepares to unleash his revenge on those who did him wrong.For years he spends his time meticulously preparing his vengeful scheme
against the treacherous friends and characters who left him to rot in prison for years and years.He refines his arts of disguise, alchemy, and manipulation to content himself with the ruin of his enemies.Loneline is the theme of both most fortunate and unfortunate
men.Dante belonging to the former, the loneline he encountered, suffered and was reborn from holds three elements which are shared by the universal concept of loneline: the absence of addiction the presence of question and self doubt and the state of detachment.Each one of the three carries the rare function and unspeakable suffering they are also the inevitable steps on the path of evolution and distinguish pages engraved in the mental history of human being.This novel is not a simple tale of simple revenge.The count does not kill his enemies;he brilliantly uses their vices and weaknees against them.Caderoue's basic greed is turned against him, while Danglars loses the only thing that has any meaning for him.Fernand is deprived of the one thing that he had that he had never earned-his honour.In the proce, he loses the source of his initial transgreion, making his fate that much more poignant.The plot against Villefort is so complicated that even Monte Cristo loses control of it, resulting in doubt foreign to his nature and remorse that he will not outlive.This long but generally fast-paced is set primarily in Marseille, Rome, and Paris.It begins with Dantès' arrival in Marseille aboard the commercial veel Pharaon and ends with his departure from Marseille aboard his private yacht, accompanied by the young, beautiful Greek prince Haydée.What gives The Count of Monte Cristo its life, however, are the times in which it is set-the The Count of Monte Cristo
Revolution, the Napoleonic era, the First and Second Restoration, and the Revolution of 1830.Life-and-death politics motivates many of the characters and keeps the plot moving.Dumas also uses real people in minor roles, such as Counte G-(Byron's mistre)and the Roman hotelier Signor Pastrini, which adds to the novel's sense of historical veracity.The most troubling aspect of The Count of Monte Cristo is Edmond Dantès himself.His claim to represent a higher justice seems to justify actions and inactions that are as morally reprehensible as those that sent him to prison, for example, his account of how he acquired Ali and his loyalty.Had he not discovered young Morrel's love for Valentine Villefort, she too might have become an innocent victim.As it is, there are at least two other innocents who die, although one clearly would not have been an innocent for long based on his behaviour in the novel.One wonders of Dantès' two father figures, his own flower-loving father and fellow prisoner AbbéFaria, would have approved of the count.The translation appears to be good, with a few slips into contemporary English idioms that sound out of place.In his
introduction, Bu states that the later Danglars and Fernand have become unrecognizable and that Fernand in particular has been transformed “from the brave and honest Spaniard with a sharp sense of honour...to the Parisian aristocrat whose life seems to have been dedicated to a series of betrayals.” There is never
anything honest or honourable about Fernand;his very betrayal of Edmond is merely the first we know of in his lifelong pattern.What seems extreme and somewhat unrealistic about Fernand is his transformation from an uneducated Catalan fisherman into a “Parisian aristocrat,” hobnobbing with statesmen, the wealthy, and the noteworthy of society.This, however, is the result of the milieu that the novel inhabits.During these post-Revolution, post-
Napoleonic years, Fernand could rise socially through his military and political accomplishments just as Danglars does through his financial acumen.Danglars is careful to note that the difference between them is that Fernand insists upon his title, while Danglars is openly indifferent to and dismiive of his;his viewpoint is the more aristocratic.
