BOOK TITLE: The Count of Monte Cristo AUTHOR: Alexandre Dumas POINT OF VIEW: 3rd person

SETTING: CHARACTERS Protagonist: Edmond Dantès 19 y.o. seaman, about to become a --Paris, 1815- Climax: Plot Stage 3 captain, engaged to Mercedes. One by one, Dante entraps each of his 1844, beginning Body Paragraph 3 persecutors, using their crimes against them. He during Napoleon’s Antagonists: Danglars, Mondego, draws out each act of revenge to the point of Caderousse: all are jealous of Dantes for captivity on Elba. suspense. various reasons. Villeforte fears that Key scenes are Dantes will reveal his father is involved in also set in a plot with Napoleon. Marseilles, Rome, Monte Cristo, Others: Greece, and Mercedes: Dante’s fiancé

Constantinople. Plot Stage 4 Abbé Faria: Priest that Dante meets in Body Paragraph 3 prison. He rescues Dante from despair and Plot Stage 2 Conflict, Rising Action: leaves him his hidden treasure when he Body Paragraph 2 Dantès is consumed with vengeance but dies. gives up hope of being free. He unexpectedly meets Abbé Faria, who befriends him, educates Denouement: Mondego’s Monsieur Morrel: Ship owner, Dante’s him, and reveals location of hidden treasure. reputation is ruined, Villefort boss The Abbe dies and Dante escapes to find the goes insane, and Danglars is left treasure. He finds Caderousse, who reveals the penniless. And a huge cast of characters, too many to details of the betrayal. After 10 years, he mention! reappears in Paris as the Count of Monte Cristo. Now fabulously rich, he sets about an elaborate scheme of revenge against the men responsible for his imprisonment.

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Exposition: Edmond Dantès seems to Human Revenge vs. Plot Stage 5 have the perfect life. He is about to Body Paragraph 3 become the captain of a ship, he is Divine Retribution engaged to a beautiful and kind young Peace woman, Mercédès, and he is well liked by Alienation vs. Love Conclusion: almost everyone who knows him. This Dante rejects Mercedes, who perfect life, however, stirs up dangerous he still feels was untrue to him when jealousy among some of Dantès’s so- she married Mondego out of despair. called friends. Dantes accused of treason He finds true love with Haydee, who by Danglars, Mondego, Caderousse. had been also been injured in Villeforte fears that Dantes will reveal his Mondego’s crimes. father is involved in a plot with Napoleon so he sentences him to prison on Château CONFLICT d’If. Category: Man vs. Society Will Dante be able to punish his enemies so that he can finally be at peace?

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