A description of tropes appearing in Count of Monte Cristo. Serialised adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas Sr., published in the Journal des Debats from …. 455 quotes from The Count of Monte Cristo: ‘I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.’. Publication. The Count of Monte Cristo was originally published in the Journal des Débats in eighteen parts. Serialization ran from August 28, 1844 to January 15, 1846. The Count of Monte Cristo has 514,151 ratings and 13,356 reviews. j said: Revenge is a dish best served cold. And unabridged. And translated from the Fre.
The Count of Monte Cristo. The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte- Cristo) is an adventure novel by French author Alexandre Dumas (p. ГЁre) completed in 1. It is one of the author's most popular works, along with The Three Musketeers. Like many of his novels, it is expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter. Auguste Maquet.[1]The story takes place in France, Italy, and islands in the Mediterranean during the historical events of 1.
Bourbon Restoration through the reign of Louis- Philippe of France. It begins just before the Hundred Days period (when Napoleon returned to power after his exile). The historical setting is a fundamental element of the book, an adventure story primarily concerned with themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy, and forgiveness. It centres around a man who is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes from jail, acquires a fortune, and sets about getting revenge on those responsible for his imprisonment.
However, his plans have devastating consequences for the innocent as well as the guilty. In addition, it is a story that involves romance, loyalty, betrayal, and selfishness, shown throughout the story as characters slowly reveal their true inner nature. The book is considered a literary classic today. According to Luc Sante, "The Count of Monte Cristo has become a fixture of Western civilization's literature, as inescapable and immediately identifiable as Mickey Mouse, Noah's flood, and the story of Little Red Riding Hood."[2]Background to the plot[edit]Dumas wrote[3] that the idea of revenge in The Count of Monte Cristo came from a story in a book compiled by Jacques Peuchet, a French police archivist, published in 1.
Dumas included this essay in one of the editions from 1. Peuchet told of a shoemaker, Pierre Picaud, living in NГ®mes in 1. England. Picaud was placed under a form of house arrest in the Fenestrelle Fort, where he served as a servant to a rich Italian cleric. When the man died, he left his fortune to Picaud, whom he had begun to treat as a son. Picaud then spent years plotting his revenge on the three men who were responsible for his misfortune. He stabbed the first with a dagger on which were printed the words "Number One", and then he poisoned the second.
The third man's son he lured into crime and his daughter into prostitution, finally stabbing the man himself. This third man, named Loupian, had married Picaud's fianc. Г©e while Picaud was under arrest.
In another of the "True Stories", Peuchet describes a poisoning in a family. This story, also quoted in the Pleiade edition, has obviously served as model for the chapter of the murders inside the Villefort family. The introduction to the Pleiade edition mentions other sources from real life: Abb. Г© Faria existed and died in 1. Faria in the novel. As for Dant. ГЁs, his fate is quite different from his model in Peuchet's book, since the latter is murdered by the "Caderousse" of the plot. But Dant. ГЁs has "alter egos" in two other Dumas works; in "Pauline" from 1.
Georges" from 1. 84. Plot summary[edit]Edmond Dant. ГЁs[edit]. The main character Edmond Dant. ГЁs was a merchant sailor prior to his imprisonment. In 1. 81. 5 Edmond Dant. ГЁs, a young and successful merchant sailor who has just recently been granted the succession of his erstwhile captain Lecl.
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ГЁre, returns to Marseille to marry his Catalan fianc. Г©e Merc. Г©d. ГЁs.
Lecl. ГЁre, a supporter of the exiled Napol. Г©on I, found himself dying at sea and charged Dant.
ГЁs to deliver two objects: a package to General Bertrand (exiled with Napoleon Bonaparte on Elba), and a letter from Elba to an unknown man in Paris. On the eve of his wedding to Merc. Г©d. ГЁs, Fernand Mondego (Merc. Г©d. ГЁs' cousin and a rival for her affections) is given subtle advice by Dant. ГЁs' colleague Danglars (who is jealous of his rapid rise to captain), to send an anonymous note accusing Dant.
ГЁs of being a Bonapartist traitor. Caderousse (Dant. ГЁs' cowardly and selfish neighbor) is drunk while the two conspirators set the trap for Dant.
ГЁs, and while he objects to the idea of hurting Dant. ГЁs, he stays quiet the next day as Dant. ГЁs is arrested then sentenced, even though his testimony could have stopped the entire scandal from happening. Villefort, the deputy crown prosecutor in Marseille, while initially sympathetic to Dant. ГЁs, destroys the letter from Elba when he discovers that it is addressed to his own father, Noirtier (who is a Bonapartist), since if this letter came into official hands, it would destroy his ambitions and reputation as a staunch Royalist. In order to silence Dant. ГЁs, he condemns him without trial to life imprisonment.
After six years of imprisonment in the Ch. Гўteau d'If, Dant. ГЁs is on the verge of suicide when he befriends the Abb. Г© Faria ("The Mad Priest"), a fellow prisoner whom he hears trying to tunnel his way to freedom. Faria's calculations on his tunnel were off, and it ends up connecting the two prisoners' cells rather than leading to freedom.
Over the course of the next eight years, Faria comes to give Dant. ГЁs an extensive education in language, culture, and science. He also explains to Dant.
ГЁs how Danglars, Fernand, and Villefort would each have had their own reasons for wanting Dant. ГЁs in prison. Knowing himself to be close to death, due to an inherited disease, Faria tells Dant. ГЁs the location of a treasure on the island of Monte Cristo. When Faria dies, Dant. ГЁs takes his place in the burial sack, moving the corpse to his own bed through their tunnel. When the guards throw the sack into the sea, Dant. ГЁs narrowly escapes with his life and swims to a nearby island - an extremely difficult feat because of the Ch.
Гўteau d'If's isolated location and dangerous offshore currents. No one was known to have escaped the prison and survived. Dant. ГЁs is rescued by a smuggling ship the next morning. After several months of working with the smugglers, the ship makes a stop at Monte Cristo.
Dant. ГЁs fakes an injury and persuades the smugglers to leave him temporarily on the island while they finish their trip without him. He then makes his way to the hiding place of the treasure.
After recovering the treasure, he leaves the smuggling business, buys a yacht, and returns to Marseille, where he begins to find out what became of everyone from his previous life. He later purchases both the island of Monte Cristo and the title of Count from the Tuscan government. Returning to Marseille, Dant. ГЁs learns that his father died of starvation during his imprisonment, but before embarking on his efforts for revenge, he first helps several people who were kind to him before his imprisonment. Traveling as the Abb.
Г© Busoni, he meets Caderousse, now living in poverty, whose intervention might have saved Dant. ГЁs from prison. Dant. ГЁs learns that his other enemies have all become wealthy.
He gives Caderousse a diamond that can be either a chance to redeem himself, or a trap that will lead to his ruin. Learning that his old employer Morrel is on the verge of bankruptcy, Dant. ГЁs, in the guise of a senior clerk from a banking firm, buys all of Morrel's outstanding debts and gives Morrel an extension of three months to fulfill his obligations. At the end of the three months and with no way to repay his debts, Morrel is about to commit suicide when he learns that all of his debts have been mysteriously paid and that one of his lost ships has returned with a full cargo, secretly rebuilt and laden by Dant.
ès. Dant. ès rejoices at the Morrel family's joy, then pledges to banish all warm sentiments from his heart and dedicate himself to vengeance. The Count of Monte Cristo[edit]. The coat of arms of the count are described in the original novel as "une montagne d’or, posant sur une mer d’azur, avec une croix de gueules au chef". Returning as the rich Count of Monte Cristo, Dant. ès takes revenge on the three men responsible for his unjust imprisonment: Fernand, now Count de Morcerf and Merc.
éd. ès' husband; Danglars, now a baron and a wealthy banker; and Villefort, now procureur du roi — all of whom now live in Paris. The Count appears first in Rome (in the early 1. Baron Franz d'Épinay, and Viscount Albert de Morcerf, the son of Merc.
Г©d. ГЁs and Fernand. Dant. ГЁs arranges for the young Morcerf to be captured by the bandit Luigi Vampa before rescuing him from Vampa's gang.
The Count then moves to Paris, and with Albert de Morcerf's introduction, becomes the sensation of the city. Through a series of clever contrivances, the count ingratiates himself to everyone, including his enemies, who do not recognize him. The Count dazzles the crass Danglars with his seemingly endless wealth, eventually persuading him to extend him a credit of six million francs, and withdraws 9. Under the terms of the arrangement, the Count can demand access to the remainder at any time. The Count manipulates the bond market, through a false telegraph signal, and quickly destroys a large portion of Danglars' fortune.
The rest of it begins to rapidly disappear through mysterious bankruptcies, suspensions of payment, and more bad luck in the Stock Exchange. Villefort had once conducted an affair with Madame Danglars. She became pregnant and delivered the child in the house that the Count has now purchased. In a desperate attempt to cover up the affair, Villefort told Madame Danglars that the infant had been stillborn. Villefort then smothered the child, and thinking him to be dead, he tried to bury him secretly behind the house.
While Villefort was burying the child, he was stabbed by the smuggler Bertuccio (who had sworn vengeance on him after Villefort refused to do anything about the murder of Bertuccio's brother). Bertuccio assumed Villefort was burying treasure. He dug it up, found the near dead child and brought him back to life. Bertuccio's sister- in- law brought the child up, giving him the name "Benedetto." Benedetto takes up a life of crime as he grows into adolescence and spends his time with other young criminals.