Period+6---questions+7,8

Gerard Briones Duval Corral Ellen Korcovelos Lindsey Winston Will Theuer Jeff Holste

Period 6---questions 7,8

After inheriting a great deal of money, Dantes decides to help Caderousse, who doesn't deserve kindness because he acted with greed and because Dantes needed to get information from him on all of his enemies. Monte Cristo also helps Albert de Morcef and Franz Depiney so he could be introduced to the social elite of Parisian society, the same social circle as that of his enemies. Albert and Franz do not deserve kindness because they are young, restless, and primarily think of themselves with little regard to others as when Albert goes to meet the girl and is instead kidnapped by bandits. If they do not deserve evil, they do not deserve kindness because they have no good qualities worth gratification.

In the instances of Edmond Dantes, he was rewarded for his injustice after being put in jail by gaining the wealth off the Isle of Monte Cristo after escaping. Villefort had purposely burned the letter Dantes was to deliver and was therefore punished with the death of his wife and two children. Cadarousse was killed by Benedetto because of his greed towards Monte Cristo’s wealth. Danglars was the chief conspirator in the imprisonment of Dantes, and was later deprived of all his gained riches, left to starve in the catacombs. Morrel is saved before he kills himself because of his loyalty to Dantes.

Literature, fine arts, and music is influenced by events. This is evident by the content within //The Count of Monte Cristo//, as the events, such as the 100 days, the anti-Bonapartism fervor that was rampant within the scope of the novel, and the overall theme of political intrigue running through the story all point to a certain basis in history. However, Dumas even said that he did not base his stories entirely on history, but instead molded the events to his story. Thus, the background to the story strongly resembles historical fiction (the history being that of Napoleonic Europe), but in essence, the history is manipulated to fit the story.