the review of The Count of Nonte Cnsto
This is an interesting and peculiar book telling a romance. Its fans are out of count and it has kept popularity for more than 100 years. It’s no doubt that this book is one of the best book for popular consumption.
The story goes as follow—Dantes sailed back and he was going to merry with he loved girl named Mercedes. He was very promising because he would become a captain if ecerything went well. But one of his workmates named Danglars was jealous of his good and envious of the strong. So Danglars framed Dantes with Fernand, a man who also loved Mercedes. They wrote a letter to government said that Dantes was a crazy supporter of Napoleon.
During Dantes and Mercedes’ nuptial feast, Dantes was arrested by magistrate. By chance, Dantes’ case was related with the deputy’s father. In order to protect his father,the deputy, named Villefort, put innocent Dantes into prison—the ChateauD’If.
At first, Dantes was full of hope because he believed himself was innocent, he imagined Villefort would set him free sooner or later. But time flied, he became hopeless and wanted to die. At that time he met Faria abbe, wise, treasure’s owner and wanted to escape the prison. Faria abbe made a math mistake when he digging a tunnel to escape so he went to Dantes’ prison by chance.
Faria abbe taught Dantes rich knowledge, made him could act as a noble, and helped him to know who had assassinated him. Faria abbe even told Dantes where his treasure was because Dantes looked after him quite well. After Faria’s death, Dantes regained his freedom, escaped and found out Faria’s treasure successfully. After that, Dantes changed his name to the Count of Nonte Cnsto.
When he came to know his boss Morrel had ever tried to help him and his father, he gave a hand to Morrel, gave Morrel a new ship and helped his family. After paid a debt of gratitude, the Count of Nonte Cnsto began to take vengeance on others.
Morcerf had captured his wife, betrayed his benefactor, but at last his wife left him, his son felt shame to be his son.. He lost all standing and reputation. So he killed himself to end. Villefort paid all his attention and used every way on his politics life, he also wanted to kill his son, but his crime eas discovered, his wife and son took poison to die, he became mad at last. Danglars made Dantes’ fathe died of hunger, he seized every chance to gain advantage by trickery. At last he was tricked by the Count of Nonte Cnsto and went bankrupt.
“I love ones who love me; I hate ones who hate me”. In this story, the kindhearted people have happyending, the evils we bring on ourselves are the gardest to bear. It fits to our Chinese minding very much. So it can bring happiness and leisure to us.
The story is full of romantic. Dantes met Faris by chance, Faria was rich and wise, Faria also changed Dantes from a sailor to noble. These are much like a myth. The Count of Nonte Cnsto became a noble, just like a “superman” or “God”, he can do whatever he want to do. He makes plans painstakingly and forces his enemies into impasse. All the people around him are his tools for vengeance. But all of that is based on his treasure, the world is controled by money. Anyone who owns enough money can make the society round with him. It shows that the relationship in capitalism society is the relationship of money.
There are many philosophy sentences in the story which show author’s oppinion. For example,”There is neither happiness nor misery in the world, there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more.” ”He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.” “Until the day when God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words---wait and hope.” These words contain wize and show a kind of attitude towards life. Life is full of hope, we should not become pessimismmists.
In a word, it is an excellent book. It has romantic and novel idea and set up an interesting work.. We should read, understand and appreciate it.

The book called the count of Monte Cristo reveals records and represents a total view of people and life in France of 19th century when the social structure is distanced from ours and the horror and dignity of a man equals his life. Unable to seize the big picture which Alexandra Dumas has obviously seized I put my focus on the focus of the book: Dante Edmond AKA the count of Monte Cristo who shines through the cover all the way to the last page. Seeing admiring and longing his unsteady lifeline, extreme fortune as well as misfortune and his air of height and detachment I on the other hand think what sparkles most is when Dante’s life reached into the unreachable bottom in the dungeon of Chateau d’If all alone.

Loneliness is the theme of both most fortunate and unfortunate men. Dante belonging to the former, the loneliness he encountered, suffered and was reborn from holds three elements which are shared by the universal concept of loneliness: the absence of addiction the presence of question and self doubt and the state of detachment. Each one of the three carries the rare function and unspeakable suffering they are also the inevitable steps on the path of evolution and distinguish pages engraved in the mental history of human being.

Loneliness and the absence of addiction

A fact that can’t be more manifested yet is constantly ignored is all creatures on the earth need to be addicted to something to live on. The birth of civilization diversified the core of each individual from the solo grasp of Mother Nature but failed to change that of the whole race. If we looked closely enough, we’ll run into the blind area of modern medical theory where only the addiction of drugs alcohol and other materialized forms is diagnosed. The fact is we all have addictive character and have to force ourselves into some kind of obsession to ignore the hollowness which truly fills our life. Those obsession often takes on occupation, hobby, aim and plan as names and hatred, love, vengeance, and anguish as content. Because few people realize their ever-lasting existence, nothing is done to prevent the harm which with more violence and strength effects not only on the body but also the mind. Yet what goes further on the destructive way than the necessary evil of obsession is absence of it. Being used the convenience and comfort of having the wandering life clinging to something, people who are suddenly taken away from all these and enter the fields of loneliness will experience a feeling of that is described as that all the oxygen is sucked out of the room. To make things worse and more unbearable all the spare energy, thinking and effort having nowhere to go will turn directly back to ourselves which leads to the second step of destruction.

Loneliness and the presence of self doubt and questioning

After the black –hole –like loneliness sucks in the conventional addiction along with the ambition desire fulfillment and all other armor people used to wear to protect from themselves the only thing we can come up with is the doubt which needs to be ascertained and the questions that need to be answered. Yet never could the hollowness be removed by questions as never could one hole be filled with another. Intended to bear the loneliness and to heal us, the doubt enlarges the hole and the questions end up cutting into the inquirers. To fall apart once and for all seems to be the most easy way out which is indeed a popular choice. And rarity, again, earns its name of precious .Self doubt and questioning is the ultimate way of self-destruction with the devastation that can only achieved by us, because we know ourselves too well. But every self evolution comes after self destruction. Being well realized and actualized by Mufucious, Buddhism and Christianity, this truth is best stated by Tyler Darden: It’s only when you’ve lost everything that you are free to do anything.

Loneliness and the state of detachment

Impossible as it is to compare the sacrifice and the rewards of loneliness, the mid-night tide of the latter rushes to the vacant beach with prevailing power and absolute cleanness. Loneliness is not an enemy whom ends up bleeding to death, but a tamed beast inhabits in the mind and heart. It is not a clerk as your service but a friend stays as a distance. Not that it is lingering a round but that is shares with you some of its rare quality: the sense of detachment. The period of loneliness created a rather distinct personal space from the world. When the loneliness leaves, the space somehow stays and will linger on. You’ll find the intimacy of old age never returns in one piece. Where connection ends the detachment begins, with that or harm could ever creep in. And with this strength mental could go further that the physical. And outside harm can be laughed at because we’ve been suffering the worse—the torture if loneliness.

The ultimate fear of man is not from outside jungle but from the inner world. We are shaking not due to our coming destruction but our mere existence. Loneliness happens to be comer one in a place where we have no choice but to confront ourselves without any distraction. The count of Monte Cristo suffered it all when he was trapped reasonlessly hopelessly and helplessly in the dungean when death is the most tempting way and loneliness was his only company. So afterwards he had it all, the ability to take everything easy, the air of undoubtedly dignity and the still lake of mind that doesn’t stir.

Victor Hugo said the name of Alexandra Dumas is more than French—it’s universal.” Literature knows no boundary of language or nationality but flourishes in the field of universal feeling and experience shared by all human beings. In this book, it's loneliness and detachment. That is why he who was fat, cunning and yet briliantly writing in France could urge me who is also-fat, but not-so-cunning to write these senseless words sitting here in the tropical area. A glance at it may tell no more than a distant silence, but do remember the words of wisdom: the tree of man is never silent, then it was Rome now it is I.”

Loves also thoroughly, hates thoroughly also. Repays a debt of gratitude also thoroughly, the revenge is also thorough. This is reads " Christ mountain revenge in me records " after the biggest feeling.China has the proverb is called the " gentleman revenges, ten year not late ", revenges also is needs to conserve strength, certainly is not may act rashly by reason of for a while the state of mind. But Christ mountain count, then was most concrete the motion explains this proverb with oneself.After experiences 14 years in prison, his life essential meaning was pursues ever the family member, ever benefactor and ever personal enemy. After confirmed had to seek person, he certainly did not have like us such which saw in the chivalric fiction novel, held the fist in the other hand cloud " to the benefactor goes through fire or water, again did not hesitate ", assassinated to the personal enemy one sword. He chose his own way.To ever had the graciousness to own ship owner one, he used up it energy, silently supported, by the various way, actually always did not let them know actually own was for repay a debt of gratitude.If he repays a debt of gratitude moving, then his revenge is so the incisiveness, also has several after us calls unavoidably to have the dessert is startled.

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The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père. Highly recommended.
Apart from 'The Three Musketeers', this is probably Alexandre Dumas' most famous work and one of the greatest novels in Western literature: a novel every literate and educated person should read at least once in their lives.
In this story, Edmond Dantes is an innocent man who was caught in the intrigues of Napoleon's escape from Elba and his 100 days of power until Waterloo. A sailor entrusted with a sealed letter of highest importance by his dying captain, Dantes delivers it into the hands of the evil prosecutor Villefort who, for reasons unkown to him, immediately sends him without trial or appeal to spend the rest of his days at the Chateau D'Iffe: a dark and isolated island prison presumed to be inescapable. With the help of Abbot Faria, a dying prisoner who knows the secret of a great hidden treasure on the small islet of Monte Cristo, Dantes escapes and prepares to unleash his revenge on those who did him wrong. For years he spends his time meticulously preparing his vengeful scheme against the treacherous friends and characters who left him to rot in prison for years and years. He refines his arts of disguise, alchemy, and manipulation to content himself with the ruin of his enemies.
Unlike the adventure themes in his works such as 'The Three Musketeers', this story is a deep character study on being the victim of utmost injustice and how cruel revenge is sweet after all: how a wronged man is entitled to become the agent of divine retribution when God and mortal laws have abandoned his cause. The various themes, complex plot, profound character development, and rich prose makes this long work undoubtedly one of the greatest works of literature ever written: Dumas was without question a literary genius.
This is a great story for people of all ages and should not be ignored by anyone who has a profound love of literature. I think this is Dumas greatest work far surpassing 'Queen Margo' 'The Three Musketeers' or 'The Corsican Brothers.'
As translator Robin Buss points out in his introduction, many of those who haven't read The Count of Monte Cristo assume it is a children's adventure story, complete with daring prison escape culminating in a simple tale of revenge. There is very little for children in this very adult tale, however. Instead, the rich plot combines intrigue, betrayal, theft, drugs, adultery, presumed infanticide, torture, suicide, poisoning, murder, lesbianism, and unconventional revenge.
Although the plot is roughly linear beginning with Edmond Dantès' return to Marseille, prenuptial celebration, and false imprisonment and ending with his somewhat qualified triumphant departure from Marseille and France, Dumas uses the technique of interspersing lengthy anecdotes throughout. The story of Cardinal Spada's treasure, the origins of the Roman bandit Luigi Vampa (the least germane to the novel), Bertuccio's tale of his vendetta, and the account of the betrayal and death of Ali Pasha are few of the more significant stories-within-the-novel. While Dumas devotes an entire chapter to bandit Luigi Vampa's background, he cleverly makes only a few references to what will remain the plot's chief mystery-how the youthful, intelligent, and naive sailor Edmond Dantès transforms himself into the worldly, jaded, mysterious Renaissance man and Eastern philosopher, the count of Monte Cristo, presumably sustained by his own advice of "wait" and "hope."
This novel is not a simple tale of simple revenge. The count does not kill his enemies; he brilliantly uses their vices and weaknesses against them. Caderousse's basic greed is turned against him, while Danglars loses the only thing that has any meaning for him. Fernand is deprived of the one thing that he had that he had never earned-his honour. In the process, he loses the source of his initial transgression, making his fate that much more poignant. The plot against Villefort is so complicated that even Monte Cristo loses control of it, resulting in doubt foreign to his nature and remorse that he will not outlive.
This long but generally fast-paced is set primarily in Marseille, Rome, and Paris. It begins with Dantès' arrival in Marseille aboard the commercial vessel Pharaon and ends with his departure from Marseille aboard his private yacht, accompanied by the young, beautiful Greek princess Haydée. What gives The Count of Monte Cristo its life, however, are the times in which it is set-the Revolution, the Napoleonic era, the First and Second Restoration, and the Revolution of 1830. Life-and-death politics motivates many of the characters and keeps the plot moving. Dumas also uses real people in minor roles, such as Countess G- (Byron's mistress) and the Roman hotelier Signor Pastrini, which adds to the novel's sense of historical veracity.
The most troubling aspect of The Count of Monte Cristo is Edmond Dantès himself. His claim to represent a higher justice seems to justify actions and inactions that are as morally reprehensible as those that sent him to prison, for example, his account of how he acquired Ali and his loyalty. Had he not discovered young Morrel's love for Valentine Villefort, she too might have become an innocent victim. As it is, there are at least two other innocents who die, although one clearly would not have been an innocent for long based on his behaviour in the novel. One wonders of Dantès' two father figures, his own flower-loving father and fellow prisoner Abbé Faria, would have approved of the count.
The translation appears to be good, with a few slips into contemporary English idioms that sound out of place. In his introduction, Buss states that the later Danglars and Fernand have become unrecognizable and that Fernand in particular has been transformed "from the brave and honest Spaniard with a sharp sense of honour . . . to the Parisian aristocrat whose life seems to have been dedicated to a series of betrayals." There is never anything honest or honourable about Fernand; his very betrayal of Edmond is merely the first we know of in his lifelong pattern.
What seems extreme and somewhat unrealistic about Fernand is his transformation from an uneducated Catalan fisherman into a "Parisian aristocrat," hobnobbing with statesmen, the wealthy, and the noteworthy of society. This, however, is the result of the milieu that the novel inhabits. During these post-Revolution, post-Napoleonic years, Fernand could rise socially through his military and political accomplishments just as Danglars does through his financial acumen. Danglars is careful to note that the difference between them is that Fernand insists upon his title, while Danglars is openly indifferent to and dismissive of his; his viewpoint is the more aristocratic.
Countess G- is quick to point out that there is no old family name of Monte Cristo and that the count, like many other contemporaries, has purchased his title. It serves mainly to obscure his identity, nationality, and background and to add to the aura of mystery his persona and Eastern knowledge create. What is most telling is that his entrée into Parisian society is based primarily on his great wealth, not his name. Dumas reinforces this point with Andrea Cavalcanti, another mystery man of unknown name and reputed fortune.
I have read The Man in the Iron Mask and The Three Musketeers series, both of which surprised me with their dark aspects (the character and fate of Lady de Winter, for example) and which little resembled the adventure stories distilled from them for children and for film. When I overheard a college student who was reading The Count of Monte Cristo on the bus tell a friend that she couldn't put it down, I was inspired to read it. I couldn't put it down, either, with its nearly seamless plot, dark protagonist, human villains, turbulent historical setting, and larger-than-life sense of mystery. At 1,078 pages, it's imposing, but don't cheat yourself by settling for an abridged version. You'll want to pick up every nuance.