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The Count of Monte Cristo –The Art of Revenge from Dumas
By admin | December 10, 2008
When we talk about Dumas, then we talk about lasting works of literature. Most of us are familiar with The Three Musketeers or The Man in the Iron Mask. Generally, Dumas’s works are as interesting as those both novels. The Count of Monte Cristo is one of Dumas’s gifts for the fans of literature. I am never bored to read this book since I was in the junior high school.
Edmond Dantes, a young sailorman of Marseille planned to marry his fiancé, Mercedes. But an event destructed all of his plans. Some parties who were jealous with Dantes built a conspiracy to make him imprisoned for action against the rule of Henry XVII. Dantes was committed guilty for a rebellion action supporting the re-emergence of Napoleon Bonaparte’s leadership. Therefore, he was jailed in Chateau D’If –an isolated island.
His friendship with a priest named Father Faria in the jail turned-over all situation he faced. He successfully managed to escape from Chateau D’If and found a missing treasure belonged to Enrique Spada –a former Bonapartist leader. Dantes, then, arranged revenge to they who make him jailed. One-by-one, his enemy became target of his revenge which took unusual manners.
The Count of Monte Cristo is an incredible romance which tells us about how love and hate collide in a heart of young Edmond Dantes for he has been treated unfairly by a number of people who tried to separate him with his fiancé, Mercedes. Dumas seems like to highlight some nature of human being such as jealous, envy, desire, and heroism.
The final destination of this story seems to show the meaning of revenge. Although there is some ways of revenge highlighted, the end of Dantes’s campaign is nothing. Revenge definitely gives nothing for they who would like to conduct it but worsening hurt and pain has been exist.
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