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The Count of Monte Cristo, Literary Analysis
Uploaded by brapp05 on Jan 31, 2005
“‘I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish,’� declares Monte Cristo to Valentine Villefort (Dumas 664). Revenge. That is all Monte Cristo has thought about since he escaped from the Château D’If, a prison for political enemies. Revenge also remains as the underlying theme in Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo. Dumas, born July 24, 1802, wrote The Count of Monte Cristo from 1844 to 1845, the period in which the novel takes place. To countless people, this novel contains the genres of adventure, Romantic, and moralistic tale. Alexandre Dumas uses elements of fiction to exemplify the foremost theme and show the novel contains the genre of moralistic tale. Dumas uses plot to show how and why Edmond Dantés, the protagonist of the novel, exacts his revenge and also to show how revenge......

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