This article talks about an adventure novel that was created in 1844-1845. The theme of our story today is a description of its heroes and a brief summary. "Count of Monte Cristo" - a work authored by A. Dumas (father). This is a recognized classic of French literature. Many of his works, including The Count of Monte Cristo, are very positive reviews from readers. First, we will introduce you to a brief summary, and then move on to characterizing the characters of the work of interest to us.
Imagine the main character of a novel written by Alexander Dumas (father). It is Dantes, a Marseille sailor from the ship "Pharaoh". He went on a regular flight to the Elbe, where he met with Marshal Bertrand, who instructed Edmond (this is the name of the main character) to deliver a letter to Paris. Dantes also saw Napoleon Bonaparte here. Edmond agreed to deliver the letter, thereby fulfilling the last will of the captain of the ship "Pharaoh", who died shortly before. Morrell, the owner of the ship, upon arrival in Marseille decided to appoint Dantes as chief.
Denunciation of Edmond
Edmond was about to marry Mercedes, a Catholic from a neighboring village. However, Fernand, her cousin, wants to connect her fate with this girl. Accountant Danglar (Edmond suspects him of deceit) begins to fear for his place. In the tavern there are Danglar, Fernand and the tailor Kadruss, the envious neighbor of Dantes. Danglars has a plan to convey to Dantes that he is allegedly a Bonapartist subordinate. To do this, he writes an anonymous letter to the prosecutor, but Kadruss is against this plan. Therefore, Danglar has to pretend that he destroyed the denunciation. He tells Fernan to deliver the letter to the prosecutor, which is what Mercedes's cousin is doing.
The arrest and imprisonment in the castle
During the wedding with the chosen one, Dantes is arrested. Kadruss understands everything, but is silent, because he is afraid that they will consider that he is involved in political affairs. The protagonist is taken to Villefort, the assistant to the royal prosecutor, who is trying to conduct business honestly. He is about to release the innocent, but finds out that Dantes should have passed the letter to his father Noartier, a Bonapartist. Villefort realizes that if this fact becomes known, his career may come to an end. Therefore, he decides in this situation to sacrifice Edmond. Villefort burns the letter, and Edmond sends without trial to the castle of If, in conclusion. He himself hurries to Paris in order to warn of the impending coup of King Louis XVIII.
Fateful meeting
We continue to describe the summary. "Count of Monte Cristo" - a work to read which is very interesting. Events are kept in suspense until the very end. Alexander Dumas (father) further talks about the fact that after several years in prison, Dantes decides to commit suicide. He starts throwing food out the window. However, a few days later, when he was almost at his death, Edmond suddenly heard someone digging ground near his cell. The main character begins to dig undermining for his part.
He meets a learned clergyman from Italy, Abbot Faria. The abbot is considered crazy, since he always says that there is a multi-million treasure, and only he knows where he is. A huge impression on the protagonist makes the person Faria. This old man is full of hope and love of life. He works all the time: he writes scientific papers, even being in custody, makes tools and is steadily preparing an escape. Faria, after hearing the story of the protagonist, restores the course of events. He reveals to Dantes the culprits and the reason for his imprisonment. Edmon swears an oath to avenge his enemies. He asks Faria to become his mentor in life and a teacher in the sciences. We will not dwell on this in detail, describing the summary. The Count of Monte Cristo is a voluminous work, so we can only talk about the main events.
Edmond learns about the treasure
Abbot and Edmond are preparing to escape together. When everything is ready, Faria suddenly has a seizure. The right side of the abbot's body is paralyzed. The protagonist refuses to escape alone and decides to stay with Faria. They communicate, the abbot teaches Edmond foreign languages and sciences. In addition, he reveals to the protagonist the secret of the treasure, which is buried on about. Monte Cristo. Faria learned about him when he served as a librarian with one of the descendants of Cardinal Spud, who had hidden his wealth from Pope Alexander VI and Caesar Borgia, his son.
Edmond's Escape, Meeting Smugglers
The abbot dies after another seizure. Going to bury the dead man in the evening, the guards sew up his body in a bag. Dantes, who came to say goodbye to the deceased, is illuminated by the idea. Edmond Dantes decides to transfer the abbot's body to his cell, and he, having strutted and sewn up the bag with the help of the tools made by Fabia, takes his place. The main character is thrown into the sea as a dead person. With difficulty, Edmon gets out of the bag. He manages to swim to the neighboring island. Thus, the protagonist leaves the castle of If. Local smugglers pick him up in the morning. Dantes meets new comrades. He was praised as a skilled sailor by their captain. Dantes, being free, finds out that he spent as much as 14 years in prison.
Edmond finds a treasure, presents smugglers
No one lives on the island of Monte Cristo. It is used as a transit point by smugglers from a work by Alexander Dumas (Count of Monte Cristo). Edmond pretends to be sick and with the help of this trick remains on the island, where he finds a buried treasure. Having become rich, the main character did not forget those who were kind to him. He told his fellow smugglers that he had inherited, and generously rewarded them all.
The main character begins an investigation
After this, Edmond decides to start his own investigation in order to find out what happened after his arrest with his bride, father, friends and enemies. He visits Kadruss under the guise of a priest who allegedly fulfills the last will of Dantes and bequeaths a diamond to his friends: Mercedes, Danglar, Fernand and Kadruss. The latter holds a tavern. At the sight of a diamond he is overwhelmed by greed, and he forgets about caution. Cadrouss tells Edmond the truth about his arrest, as well as what happened after that. Dantes' father fell into despair and died of starvation, Mercedes was also very sad.
Morrel tried to fight for Dantes to be released, and supported his father. Cadrouss also said that Mercedes had married Fernand, and that Mr. Morrell, the former owner of Edmond, was almost ruined. Fernand and Danglar are now rich. They belong to the upper world and must be happy. Danglar became a millionaire banker, has the title of baron. Fernand is now General, Peer of France, Count de Morser.
Rescue Morrel
Edmond returns to Marseille. Here he learns that Morrel is indeed on the brink of ruin. He hopes only for the return of the Pharaoh with the cargo, the ship on which Dantes once sailed. However, news arrives that the ship sank in a storm (although the captain and crew miraculously escaped). Dantes finds out about all this when he comes to the armature under the guise of Agent Morrell. The protagonist on behalf of the banking house gives the last respite to Morrel. She is already coming to an end, and he cannot pay. Morrel, to avoid shame, decides to commit suicide. At the last moment, however, canceled bills are brought in, and the new Pharaoh enters the port. Morrel is saved with his family. Dantes is watching them from afar. Out of a sense of gratitude, he closed Morrel’s account, and now he wants revenge on his enemies.
Mysterious Count of Monte Cristo
It takes 9 years. Alexander Dumas continues to describe further events. The Count of Monte Cristo, eccentric and mysterious, succeeds Edmond Dantes. This is just one of the images that the protagonist created. He is also known to some as Abbot Busoni, Lord Wilmore and others. Italian smugglers and robbers, whom he was able to unite and subjugate, like many travelers and sailors, know the main character under the name Sinbad the Sailor. Over the past years, he has already managed to visit many corners of the world and significantly expand his education. Count Monte Cristo, in addition, learned to skillfully manipulate people. He is the owner of a high-speed vessel. And in the caves located on the island of Monte Cristo, he has a hidden underground palace. Here he takes travelers.
Dantes, under the guise of a count, is a member of high French society. He intrigues him and admires his unusual lifestyle and wealth. The main character has a silent servant Ali, about whom he says that if he disobeys him, he will be killed. The Count is in charge of Giovanni Bertuccio, a Corsican smuggler who has his own accounts with Villefort. Meanwhile, Villefort has already become the royal prosecutor of Paris. The count, in addition, contains Hyde, a slave, to whom she relates first as a daughter. This is the daughter of Pasha Ali-Tebelin, whom Fernan treacherously killed.
The implementation of the revenge plan
The main character begins to gradually implement his plan of revenge. He believes that the death of enemies is an insufficient payment for the suffering. The count considers himself as an instrument of Providence, an instrument of justice. He stabs the victims gradually. As a result, Fernand is disgraced, his wife and son left him, and ultimately he commits suicide. Villefort is losing his mind, who is losing his whole family. Danglars goes bankrupt and flees from France. The robbers who obey Monte Cristo capture him in Italy. They rob Danglar of the last vestiges of his fortune. The count, however, was already tired of revenge. He realized that fair retaliation against criminals caused irreparable damage to many innocents. A heavy burden on the conscience of the protagonist was the consciousness of this. Therefore, he releases Danglar, even allows him to take 50 thousand francs with him.
Final events
So we came to the finale, describing the summary. "Count of Monte Cristo" ends with a hero who realized that he doesn’t love Hyde with his father’s love, with her floats away on a ship. He leaves the island of Monte Cristo with all its riches as a gift to Maximilian, the son of Morrel, as well as Valentina de Villefort, his lover, daughter of the prosecutor.
Count of Monte Cristo (Edmond Dantes)
Monte Cristo (aka E. Dantes) is the protagonist of a work written by A. Dumas (father). The story of his real prototype was drawn by the author from the archives of the Paris police. Having become a victim of the rally, the shoemaker was imprisoned in the castle. Here he courted a prisoner, prelate, who bequeathed him a great fortune. The shoemaker, finding himself at large, took revenge on his enemies, but he died at the hands of the last survivor. The name Monte Cristo was inspired by the name of a small island located near Elba.
It should be noted that by the end of the work, when the guilty are mercilessly punished, neither Monte Cristo nor the reader experiences the necessary satisfaction (except, perhaps, the youngest reader for whom this image is designed). The protagonist of the novel is transformed so much that he acts unrecognized among people who knew him before. The motive of internal transformation is the structural motive of his character. You can only talk about the implicit, dotted "shine through" the image of the prudent and cold avenger Monte Cristo of direct selflessness of Edmond. It can be combined typologically with such characters as Joseph the Beautiful and Odysseus, who were many years later met by relatives and not recognized by them. Mercedes, unlike Penelope, could not wait for her lover, decided that he was dead. And unlike Jacob, the old father did not suffer separation from his son. The hero of Dumas is reborn, but not growing up. Edmond's credulity and rusticity are transformed into romantic mystery, demonism. In addition, the way of his being changes: Edmond lives a natural life, and the Count of Monte Cristo, whose character description is given in some detail in the novel, governs the lives of other people without his own.
Danglar
This is an accountant who served on the Pharaoh. This man is envious. It was he who initiated the denunciation of Dantes. We can say that Baron Danglar is the fallen hero of all in the novel, but he did not feel remorse. He managed to leave Marseille. Danglar was supplying the French army during the Spanish War and made a fortune on it. The hero’s only love was money. That is why Monte Cristo used this weakness as revenge. The robber Luigi Vampa, a friend of the Count, at his request abducted Danglar and began to starve him, offering the hero to buy food for millions. When Danglar had no money at all, the count decided to let him go. Thus, this character was the first of those whom the main character spared. However, he was the last to deserve to be forgiven by the Count of Monte Cristo. The book, written by Alexander Dumas, makes you think about the reasons for this.
Gaspard Cadrousse
This is a tailor who was a neighbor of the protagonist and his father. Gaspard is one of the participants in the denunciation of Dantes. But he can be justified by the fact that he was drunk and therefore did not take seriously writing the denunciation, believing that this was a joke. Later, the hero became the owner of the inn. Greed forced him to kill a man and become a criminal. Edmond several times in various guises provided Cadrus with a chance to improve. In fact, he didn’t even take revenge on him, but only gave him the right to choose, which was a test for him. The Count of Monte Cristo, as a revenge, confronted Cadrusse's choice - to leave the criminal past or to continue the unholy path. He could not refuse the profit and decided to rob the count, but fell from Benedetto, his "friend", with whom he committed the robbery.
Gerard de Villefort
This hero of the work is an assistant to the royal prosecutor. He sent Edmond to prison only because he had a letter from Napoleon, which was addressed to Villefort's father. Then he rose to the position of royal prosecutor. The past of this hero was not perfect, which Count Monte Cristo used for revenge. Gerard had a love affair with Madame Danglar. An unwanted child was born from her. Villefort buried him in the garden of a house located in Othea. Monte Cristo first bought this house. Then, inviting the light of Paris, he showed the audience a dramatization of the night when the child was buried alive. Benedetto with his help became the defendant, and it turned out that he was the son of Villefort. Gerard's wife turned out to be a poisoner. All this led to the fact that Villefort went crazy.
Fernand Mondego
This hero is a fisherman, Mercedes cousin. He was in love with her, so he decided to betray Edmond. After that, Fernand was recruited. He managed to rise to the rank of general, and also to receive the title of count. When Greece rebelled against Turkey, Fernan betrayed Ali Tibelin, the Pasha of Ioannina. Monte Cristo's revenge was sophisticated. He announced the circumstances under which Ali-Tibelin died. This led to the contempt of Albert and Mercedes. Fernand's story ended with a shot at the temple.
Abbot Faria
The novel "Count of Monte Cristo" introduces us to another interesting character. This is an Italian priest who became Edmond's second father. He was at If Castle, his cellmate. Faria is the sage who taught Dantes everything. Everyone believed that he was crazy, as he offered treasures for his freedom. And only Edmond knew that these treasures actually existed.
Pierre Morrell
Of course, Morrel is a goodie in the work "Count of Monte Cristo". Pierre (that was his name) is Edmond's best friend, the owner of the Pharaoh ship. The noblest man depicted him Dumas ("Count of Monte Cristo"). When Dantes was arrested, he went to Villefort several times to ask for him. When Morrel did not have the money to pay off his debts, he was ready to wash away the shame with his blood. However, Dantes saved him. Pierre was sure that he should thank Edmond for saving his honor, although he appeared to him under the guise of an agent of a banking house.
So, you met with the main characters of the novel. The Count of Monte Cristo is a book worth reading. In particular, it will be of interest to young readers.Many of them are simply delighted with the work of Alexander Dumas - "Count of Monte Cristo." This novel is not in vain known throughout the world.
We have only briefly described the work "Count of Monte Cristo." Parts that are not so important for the development of the plot were omitted by us. However, this retelling gives an idea of the main events of the novel.