The Count of Monte Cristo1

             Type of literary work: Adventure Drama
             The main point that Alexandre Dumas is presenting in this novel deals with judgement. Those
             who are good to others will be rewarded in the furture. Those who are sinfull will be punished.
             The action in this novel takes place in Marseilles, Paris, France in the 1800's. The era of the
             novel is set during the Napoleonic era. The ciites in which this novel takes place in are, Marseilles,
             Paris, and Rome. Most of the scenes are in the cities but others take place on the countryside, and
             Edmond Dantes was a young and handsome sailor. He had a lot of things that people would
             dream of. The two main people that were jealous of him were a man named Fernand Mondego and a
             man named Monsieur Danglars. Fernand was in love with Dantes' fiance Mercedes, while Danglars
             was jealous that Dantes was to receive the rank of Captain that he didn't have.
             These men (as well as two others named Gaspard Caderousse and Monsieur de Villefort)
             form a conspiracy and arrange for Dantes to be arrested and sent to a dreadfull prison named the
             Chateau d'If. After a couple years in the Chateau d'If he met Abbe Faria who became Dantes' intern
             father . Dantes met Abbe Faria through a secret passage way they both had builtt. Faria taught
             Dantes many things in there years together in prison. One of which was the secretly kept treasure of
             the Spada family. The two friends had planned an escape, but Faria dies before they can carry out
             there escape. Dantes once again becomes filled with grief and sadness, but he thinks up a plan.
             He thought only the dead leave the Chateau d'If, decides to replace Faria's corpse with himself.
             He places Faria in his own cell in bed facing the wall. He sews the shroud back once he is inside it.
             He is then thrown into the sea as all the corpses were of the Chateau d'If are. That is how Dantes
             made his great escape. Dantes is picked up by a ship of sm...

More Essays:

APA     MLA     Chicago
The Count of Monte Cristo1. (2000, January 01). In MegaEssays.com. Retrieved 07:58, October 11, 2026, from https://www.megaessays.com/viewpaper/42847.html