1.Analysis of Protagonist: Edmond Dantès
Three characteristics:
a.Happy: “Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death, Maximilien, in order to know how good life is to live”(441).
b.Religious: “I maintain my pride in the face of men, but I abandon it before God, who drew me out of nothingness to make me what I am”(177).
c.Vengeful: “I taught my arm to kill, my eyes to watch suffering and my lips to smile at the most terrible sights; from the kind, trusting and forgiving man I had once been, I made myself vindictive, crafty and cruel, or, rather, impassive like dead and blind Fate itself”(411).
2.Analysis of Antagonist: Society
Three characteristics:
a.Uncaring: (prison guards)“No, further on, further on! You know the last one got smashed on the rocks and the next day the governor called us a couple of lazy rascals…One! Two! Three!”(66).
b.Lying: (Villefort)“If anyone asks you about it, deny it. Deny it firmly and you’ll be saved”(24).
c.Greedy: (Bertuccio)“She was found the next morning, half burned but still breathing. The cupboard had been broken open and the money was gone…and Assunta was dead”(165).
3.Plot paradigm:
a.Inciting incident: Dantès is jailed against his will for something he did not do.
b.Climax: When he kills those responsible for him being put in jail
4.Setting:
a.“Preparations for the betrothal feast had been made in a large room on the second floor of La Reserve, with whose arbor we are already acquainted”(14).Betrothal Feast
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b.“Into a room which seemed to be entirely underground, whose bare, oozing walls seemed to be impregnated with tears.”(27).Jail
c.“They could see two things rising above the heads of the people: the obelisk, surmounted by a cross, and the two tall wooden uprights of the guillotine, with the metal blade glistening between them.”(117).Execution
d.“Notice how strangely the bed is placed, look at those somber, blood-colored hangings; and those two faded portraits, with their livid lips and their frightened eyes, don’t they seem to be saying, ‘I saw!’”(216).Bedroom
e.“Nothing was heard except the rumbling of carriages taking the revelers home; nothing was seen except a few rare lights flickering windows”(123).Via dei Pontefici
5.Theme statement: Only God can be truly just
a.Dumas: “Monte Cristo paled at the horrible sight. He realized that he had gone beyond the limits of rightful vengeance and that he could no longer say, ‘God is for me and with me’”(403).
b.Dantès: “And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude… I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked!”(109).
6.Best Written Lines
a.“Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone”(440).
b.“I swear by the blood of Christ that I will never leave you while you are still alive!”(52).
c.“What has happened to his father is not a misfortune: it’s a punishment. I haven’t struck him down: Providence has punished him”(312).
d.“I maintain my pride in the face of men, but I abandon it before God, who drew me out of nothingness to make me what I am”(177).
e.“It was time for him to go back among men and take up the rank, influence, and power which great wealth gives in the world”(78).
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Summary of Critical Review #1
Summarizing the opinion of Margaret Oliphant she feels that the greatest tragedy of the book was the way that it went from the sweet Dantes to the uncaring and cold Count. All of the sympathy that had been gained for poor Edmond is lost when the Count’s revenge becomes almost diabolical. The reader is excited into a desire for poetic justice because of how well they can relate to the wrongs imposed on antes. Then all of that sympathy is lost as he undergoes a soul change to become The Count of Monte Cristo. A new character arisen from the sea with a new outlook on life, an outlook the reader can’t relate to. (111-130)
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Summary of Critical Review #2
Dumas, Alexandre. The Count of Monte Cristo. New York: Bantam Books, 1844.
Oliphant, Margaret. “Excerpt from Alexandre Dumas.” Vol. CXIV in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine.
July 1873.