Monte Cristo Villefort Quotes

“...whom God has placed above kings and ministers by giving them a mission to fulfill…’And do you regard yourself as one of those extraordinary being?’ asked Villefort…’Yes I am one of them’ said Monte Cristo…” (Dumas 211). This quote is an example of a man who let the power of money and revenge get to his head. In the book The Count of Monte Cristo the Count uses his power as a metaphor to being God because he thinks he has enough power to control and manipulate people. He gets into this God like image because in the beginning of the book he has all the things that he could have possibly asked for: a wife, a promotion, and money for his future. Well three men, Danglar, Caderousse, and Fernand, become envious of his good fortune because

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. The book along with the poem “Ozymandias” use a lot of different figurative language tools along with a good amount of diction to promote the idea that the two men are really as powerful as God

In “Ozymandias” we can already see the metaphor that Shelly uses when the king, Ozymandias, is comparing himself to the “King of Kings”. Shelly also uses a lot of personification to show how much the power and the downfall of the king really started to take possession of the people around him in different ways. “The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed.” (Shelly 8).. The personification in this quote is saying that he used his upper hand to mock the way that the people lower than him lived, and that everywhere they went they saw him because of all the statues he had built.. In the book Count of Monte Cristo there are multiple figurative language devices. At one multiple points the book is caught using multiple examples of hyperboles. “...allowed a single drop of it to fall between the child’s lips. Although still pale, the boy opened his eyes immediately.” (Dumas 207). This excerpt is from a part of the book when Edouard (Villefort’s son) appears to be dead until the Count drops a drop of some medicine in the boy’s mouth and he instantly becomes better and wakes up, proving this is a hyperbole because no one can simply bring someone ‘back to life’ with only one drop of medicine. This quote also shows symbolization by giving The Count the God like power to bring someone back up from the