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.

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　　The Count of Monte Cristo begins with the arrival of a ship in Marseilles, France. One of the crew is a young sailor named Edmond Dantès. Dantès seems to be on the threshold of great happiness. Morrel, the shipowner, promotes him to captain, and he is about to marry a beautiful girl named Mercédès. However, at the feast before the wedding Dantès is arrested for treason. He is innocent, but has been entrapped by a plot hatched by Danglars, a fellow sailor who is jealous of Dantès's promotion, and Fernand, who was his rival for the love of Mercédès. The plot is aided by Villefort, a corrupt prosecutor, and Dantès is imprisoned in the Chateau d'If. He is not told why he is imprisoned. He remains in the Chateau d'If for fourteen years. During this time he meets the Abbé Faria, a fellow prisoner who has been digging what he hoped would be a tunnel to freedom, but which leads instead to Dantès's cell. The Abbé is a learned man, and he teaches Dantès everything he knows. He also tells Dantès the location of a secret treasure, which is buried on an uninhabited island called Monte Cristo, in the Mediterranean. When the Abbé dies, Dantès switches places with the corpse and is carried out of the prison for burial. He plans to escape from the grave. But instead of burying him, the jailers toss him into the sea. Even so, he manages to swim to safety. He makes his way to Monte Cristo and discovers the treasure.

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　　基督山伯爵读后感（1320字）
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the count of monte cristo
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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.