The Count of Monte Cristo Group at eNotes

Rank Dantes's enemies from the least guilty and give evidence for the...

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:36:17 PST

Why does Count spare Danglars's llife?

Before he was a Count, Edmund was also a sailor; we can assume Gaetano...

Sun, 18 May 2008 20:50:09 PST

Before he was a Count, Edmund was also a sailor; we can assume Gaetano was on the Count’s payroll and would suggest to Franz, who was interested in hunting, to try his luck on the Isle of Monte Cristo, thus setting up the meeting between the Count and Franz. None of the meetings throughout the book ever happen by chance; everything is orchestrated by the Count.

why is the costume chosen by the count an example of irony?

Sun, 18 May 2008 06:42:42 PST

why is the costume chosen by the count an example of irony?

Valentine’s grandfather Noritier reveals a secret document, the...

Sat, 17 May 2008 22:06:23 PST

Valentine’s grandfather Noritier reveals a secret document, the “Minutes of a Sitting of the Bonapartist Club....February the fifth, eighteen-fifteen,” which he requests Franz, Valentine’s betrothed, to read. In it Franz discovers that his royalist grandfather, General d’Epinay, was killed in a duel by the Bonapartist Noirtier when he was a young man. The marriage between Franz and Valentine is called off, much to the chagrin of...

What does Noirtier reveal in order to foil Valentine's engagement in...

Sat, 17 May 2008 18:33:13 PST

What does Noirtier reveal in order to foil Valentine's engagement in "The Count of Monte Cristo"?

what is the first obstacle dantes encounters when he is trying to...

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:26:04 PST

what is the first obstacle dantes encounters when he is trying to retrieve the treasure and how he overcomes it

When Monte Cristo visits Albert for the first time in Paris in chapter ...

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:57:23 PST

When Monte Cristo visits Albert for the first time in Paris in chapter 39 at the "Breakfast", he tells Albert upon seeing him, " puncuality is the politeness of Kings".

There is a very comprehensive listing of the characters in the novel,...

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:08:00 PST

There is a very comprehensive listing of the characters in the novel, along with comprehensive descriptions of each, at the enotes link below. The section gives extensive information on major characters Edmund Dantes, the Count of Monte Cristo himself, Gaspard Caderousse, who knows of Dantes's innocence but does nothing to help him, Monsieur de Villefort, the public prosecuter who sends Dantes to prison unjustly, Mercedes Herrera, Dantes's...

What are all the characters' names and descriptions in The Count of...

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:09:24 PST

What are all the characters' names and descriptions in The Count of Monte Cristo?

The two meet in Rome and "run into each other" several times....

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:21:50 PST

The two meet in Rome and "run into each other" several times. The most significant occasion occurs when Albert is "kidnapped" by bandits at the carnival. Monte Cristo pays the ransom money, so he can be freed. Albert invites the count over the next day to thank him. At that time, they each discuss their lives and Monte Cristo asks Albert to introduce him to Parisian society when he visits. Albert is intrigued by the man and...

What does Monte Cristo tell Albert when Monte Cristo visits him?

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:24:04 PST

What does Monte Cristo tell Albert when Monte Cristo visits him?

This is perhaps the most beautiful quotation in the book.The count of...

Sun, 6 Apr 2008 22:49:01 PST

This is perhaps the most beautiful quotation in the book.The count of Monte Cristo is saying to his pseudo adopted son Max Morrell that despite how huge or how many your problems are you simply need to "Wait" and "Hope" and God will deliver you. This ideology is so powerful. Yet having said this I dont think for one moment that the Count felt any remorse or regret for being an "Agent of Providence". He felt it...

Jacapo is a minor character in the book. He is a mate on board the ship...

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:22:54 PST

Jacapo is a minor character in the book. He is a mate on board the ship that first picks up Edmond after his escape in chapter 23.Jacapo is friendly with Edmond. He and the other sailors call Edmond, "The Maltese". Probably because he looked Italian. Maltese is the language of Malta. The Arabic dialects developed in Sicily, and southern Europe. I dont read too much into Jacapo other than he was just some one whom Edmond met and...

The interaction is sad to me. On the one hand Monte Cristo views Albert...

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:14:24 PST

The interaction is sad to me. On the one hand Monte Cristo views Albert as a pawn in his plan of revenge, on the other hand he sees in Albert a bridge across time to his lost love: Alberts Mother, Mercedes. I also think when he looks at Albert he sees the son who should have been his.

The novel starts at close to the the time Napoleon escaped from Elba in...

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:24:13 PST

The novel starts at close to the the time Napoleon escaped from Elba in 1815. Remember Edmond Dantes unwittingly brings back a letter intended for Napoleons followers? With the help of the army Napoleon was restored to power breifly in what is commonly referred to as the "hundred days". His reign ended in June 1815 with the victory of the allied coalition at Waterloo. Napoleon abdicated and was exiled to the island of St.Helena. ...

Edmund Dantes, the central character in the book, is a young man who has...

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:37:43 PST

Edmund Dantes, the central character in the book, is a young man who has everything going for him. At nineteen, he is about to achieve commercial success and marry the girl that he loves, but because of the jealousy of a diverse group of four unscrupulous men, Dantes is unjustly imprisoned for fourteen years. Upon his release, Dantes acquires a treasure that a fellow prisoner has told him about, which he finds on the island of Monte...

Who is Edmond Dantes in Dumas' book The Count of Monte Cristo?

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:41:05 PST

Who is Edmond Dantes in Dumas' book The Count of Monte Cristo?

Is it more than just coincidence that Gaetano brings Franz, the close...

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:23:58 PST

Is it more than just coincidence that Gaetano brings Franz, the close friend of Albert Morcerf, to the Isle of Monte Cristo?

He was upset because that was the place where he witnessed a murder....

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:34:28 PST

He was upset because that was the place where he witnessed a murder. Villefort murdered a baby and buried it underground in a box. Well he didn't murder the baby but he put it in a box and buried it under the ground. He was also upset because after he witnessed that there he "murdered" Villefort by stabbing him (so he thought).

I think that Fernand Mondengo (The Count de Morcerf) could also...

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:29:24 PST

I think that Fernand Mondengo (The Count de Morcerf) could also represent jealousy. He was jealous of Edmond Dantes because he was marrying Mercedes and he was inlove with her. He also took part in the jailing of Dantes.Caderousse wasn't involved in the jailing but he did admit that he was jealous of Dantes after Dantes escaped from jail and had a conversation with him as Abbe Bussoni.