n the book The Count of Monte Cristo takes revenge against the people who ruined his life as Edmond Dantes and uses different types of strategies depending on their weakness. The Count disguises himself as an Abbe and returns to find Caderousse still as a poor man. On page 110 it says “So saying , he the diamond from his pocket and handed it to Caderousse. “Take this, my friend.” he said, “it's yours” “What! for me alone?” cried Caderousse.
The miracle of Jesus calming the storm is a story from the New Testament of the Bible. According to the account in the Gospel of Mark (4:35-41), Jesus and his disciples were on a boat when a violent storm arose. The disciples became afraid for their lives, but Jesus was sleeping. They woke him up and asked him to save them. Jesus calmed the wind and the waves, and immediately the storm stopped.
To keep his name clean Villefort sends Dantes to prison where he is imprisoned for fourteen years before he escapes. In prison he becomes friends with a priest, Abbe Faria, who tells him of a hidden treasure that Dantes can get once he escapes. Later on it is found out that Abbe Faria has a disease that h is likely to die from and eventually he does die after a massive seizure. When he dies Dantes takes on the act of a dead body and escapes that way. After escaping he finds the treasure and starts his new life of power and vengeance.
Vengeance can cause justice, but what happens when vengeance goes too far? Vengeance can be a descructice thing, when greed gets ahead of your conscience, it can cause the drive for revenge to go over the line. In The Count of Monte Cristo, Viva la Vida, and the story of Cain and Abel, the authors use imagery and diction to convey the idea that vengeance can make someone crazy even if it causes pain in the process. Alexandre Dumas displays a great example of imagery and diction. Vengeance is a deadly tool.
In addition, Friar John did not tell the whole story to Romeo, so he is also to blame, he says “I'll go and bring it to thee. ”(Shakespeare 898) with his intentions to get the letter to Romeo, but sadly did not fulfill. The message was not clearly sent and yet Friar Laurence feels guilt for what has been done, he says, “And I stand here, both to impeach and purge, myself condemned and myself excused. ”(Shakespeare 907)
(84) Dante’s statements clarify that he has mixed feelings based on punishments in Inferno, and grows throughout the book. Dante, forgiving to a point and yet unsympathetic at times, would be in the middle of deciding if the punishment is
Dantes is taken to him first about his arrest. Villefort says that he will do whatever he can to prove Dantes’ innocence, however, when Villefort sees Noirtier, his father’s name on the letter, he is shocked “A thunderbolt could not
Friar Alberigo uses imagery of fruit to convey that as dates are more valuable than figs, he got a crueler punishment than he deserved. Dante has a much different response to this interlocutor than he has with the others. Dante breaks his promise to break the ice from Friar Alberigo’s eyes, therefore, betraying the betrayer. He finally stops showing pity for the souls in Hell and sees their punishments as just. Therefore, Friar Alberigo is an example of a deceiving interlocutor whose past does not cause Dante to pity him, meaning that Dante is letting go of his connection to worldly things and
Thus, Francesca and Paolo committed the sin of adultery. Yet, Dante wants to draw attention to something; the word “adultery” never appears through the 147 lines of Inferno 5. This is quite interesting. Dante makes the reader to realize the fact that it is not the adultery causing the fate of these lovers, yet something else causes it. Francesca was helpless in the face of love, yet her passivity against love does not negate any guilt.
•Edmond Dantès: Protagonist. Edmond’s unequivocal happiness is cut short when his enemies, who are blinded by their jealousy and self-bitterness, plot against him. Edmond’s gullibility and willingness to incoherently trust everyone around him precipitates his downfall. His destruction of character and desire for vengeance leads him to overstep moral boundaries. With the transformation of Edmond into the Count of Monte Cristo, he experiences a metaphorical death, the death of his virtuous self.
This pope is not physically in Dante’s Hell, because he was not yet dead at the time he was writing the poem. However, to Dante, Pope Boniface VIII was one of the most corrupt and fraudulent because he led a false perception of wanting to make peace. This false perception undermines the church and all of its followers, causing him to eventually join Pope Nicholas III in his misery, following the theme of how the abuse of power, particularly in the church and politics, is despicable towards
The year is 1302, Dante Alighieri is absent from his role as one of the six supreme magistrates. Prior to that he had an extremely successful political career who had no problem exerting his power. Dante considered himself “a moderate White, he found it necessary during the two-month term to join in banishing his brother-in-law, Corso Donati, and his "first friend," Guido Cavalcanti, as ringleaders respectively of the Blacks and Whites.” Blacks and Whites were faction groups who had ongoing fights in the streets of Florence. This is an extremely admirable trait of a great ruler and/or ruler, the ability to at any moment turn on friends or family in order to uphold the city or government.
At the final 9th circle, Dante encounters Count Ugolino, a traitor against italy. Dante listens to Ugolino’s story about the tragedy of himself and his sons, reflects the theme of human reason and emotions. Count Ugolino commits an ambiguous sin and has an unreliable reaction towards it, which causes the reader to question the incredibly heavy punishment that Count Ugolino is dealt. This passage draws attention to issues with reliability, regarding Ugolino, Dante the author, and Dante the pilgrim. Dante as both the author
“Just nine percent of students from the lowest income quartile graduate with a bachelor 's degree by age twenty four, compared to seventy seven percent for the top income quartile” (Feldman n.pg.). College is becoming unrealistic for several students across America because of the outrageous prices that continue to increase. While some people believe college is a reasonable price due to the fact that it is a necessary piece of qualifying for higher paying jobs, it is unfair. As a matter of fact, wealthy students are now being offered a wider range of opportunities than others, not on the grounds that they have increased knowledge, but because their parents have additional money. All students have the right to an education with persistent work,
