The Count of Monte Cristo

1. By Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo

2. About Alexandre Dumas • Novels, mulatto, financial • Education, priest, penmanship • Paris, king, king • Plays, librarian • Serial, subplots, master, sequels • Collaborators, plotlines, handwriting • Both • Financial, Monte Cristo, own • 1,200 • never

3. General Information • French • Genre • Serially • Anonymous, third, action • Detached • Setting, Napoleon’s, Paris

4. Characters • Protagonist, not, punishing • - identity, bitterness • - generosity, enemies • - priest, religious • - gift • Fiancée, never, both • Priest, teaches, fortune, catalyst

5. Characters • Marries, first • Wealthy, revenge • Drunk, crime • Sentencing, biggest • Free, save • Starves • Honorable, good • Fernand, sole • Love • Father • Daughter, betrayed • steward

6. Characters • Liar • Edward • Love • Wife • Affairs • Daughter • Secrets • Slave • Bandit • Innocent • friend • Smuggler • Betrays • Saves • Bandits • vampire

7. About the Novel • Popularity, action, plot, respond, jealous, owner • Trust, total, intercede • Repulsed, starvation, against, mails, revenge • Most • Adventure, not, plot • Hero, word, doesn’t, rebel, life

8. About the Novel • No • Emotionally, Danglars, father, necessary, hope, reduced, hope • Ambition, ambitions, postpone, ambition • Emotion, doubt, suicide • Universal, respond, universal, contact • Isolation, restores

9. About the Novel • Most, Finest, memory, languages, psychology, Abbe, relationship • Purpose, seizures, himself, loyalty, noble, secret • Not, always, hidden, commonplace • Reward • Famous, exchange, desperate, heroes • Fourteen, Christ, dead

10. About the Novel • Romantic, pathetic fallacy, smuggler • Inwardly, naïve • Human, dream, universals • Fails, sacrifice, rewarded • Prospered, fall, deliberate, suffered • Good, identity, farewell, His, wicked

11. About the Novel • Sinbad, Sinbad, seven, familiar, sailor, parallel, treasure • Purse, symbol, save, repaid, recognize, symbol, gratitude, selfish • Transition, Count • Revenge, immediate, not, not, revenge • Supernatural, magical, vampire • Vampire, vampires, popularity, vampires, Dracula, appealing

12. About the Novel • Pleasure, not, revenge • Albert, fight, romantic, not, noble • Rewards, Christ, not, be, punish • Instrument, island, Christ, legitimacy • Rigid, justice, little, wrong, breaking, own, common, tyranny

13. About the Novel • Haydée, contrasts, Eastern, exotic, mystique, Oriental, exotic • Positive, good, good, deserts, goodness, perverted • Humanity, no, Wilmore, aliases, gratitude • Satisfaction, attitude, challenges • Poison, slow, villainess

14. About the Novel • Enemy, favorable, dislike, love • Bursts, wealth • Close, exiled, above, no, member, None, home, Romantic, Prometheus, society • Superhero, disguise, never • Detective, clues, manipulates, subtly

15. About the Novel • Financial, betrayal, law, undoings, divine, own, justice • First, losing, default, trap, public, murders • Proof, foil • Rage, not, best, hotheaded, pawn, acting, resembles • Devotion, noble, father's • Unchanged, beg, innocent, destroyed, spare • Intelligent, mystery, noble, wealth, forgives

16. About the Novel • Names, Mercedes, remain, exists, loved • Commoners, humility, die, old • Love, love, good, justice, not • Evil, why, not, innocence, angel • Foils, contrast, unfairly, innocence, poor, react • Doubt, Edward’s, Valentine, God’s, God, returns, doubt

17. About the Novel • Doubt, hubris, power, shaken • Suicide, Haydee, fate, hope • Danglars, forgiven • Pardon, limits, not, life, least, repent, fits

18. About the Novel • Perfect, greed, money, ambition, love • Human, no, reenter, love, love • Final, God, God • Neat, death, despair, Haydee

19. Themes and Motifs • Ironically, Satan