Villefort In The Count Of Monte Cristo

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because Dumas writes that even at the sight of the execution just beginning, “Franz felt his legs go weak. He looked at Albert; he was as pale as his shirt.” (140) Not everyone held to the popular viewpoint because like the count many came to see these public forms of justice. As Larson goes on to say, “ lesson of history is that it is within our capacity as humans to witness decapitations and other forms of execution and, more than that, to enjoy them as popular public events. For as long as there were public executions, there were crowds to see them.” The count like many people had become curious and desensitized to execution. They fed off the justice brought down on others.
Execution and murders brings another issue in french culture during the 19th century that has been hinted, but not brought to a forefront and that is revenge. France at this time had just come from the reign of terror during the
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In The Count of Monte Cristo, there are two characters with opposing views politically who are forced to coexist. Noirtier is a bonapartist and his son, Villefort is a royalist, but they both live under the same roof. Their cohabitation is not always an ideal, loving father son relationship. Dumas comments that,” Villefort saw his father but seldom, and then only when absolutely obliged, and as he never took any pains to please or gratify him when he was there”() However, Noirtier is actually completely reliant on Villefort because he was paralyzed. Villefort’s wife even comments that “the poor old gentleman [Noirtier] is entirely helpless; the mind alone is still active in this human machine, and that is faint and flickering, like the light of a lamp about to expire.” Without his son, Noirtier would not be able to survive and Villefort could easily of gotten rid of his father. Dumas demonstrates that two disputing parties coming together is not easy, but it is