"The Count of Monte Cristo" is a novel by the French literary magnate Dumas, a story that inspired many people during the dark period of recent human history.
In 1842, Dumas traveled to the Mediterranean Sea and when he ascended Monte Cristo, he was inspired to write a novel set in the Context of Napoleon's Hundred Days. It had been 21 years since Napoleon's death, and with the defeat of the French god of war and his army, the feudal dynasty of France was restored.
Dumas began serializing the novel in the Newspaper Despeques in Paris, France, on 28 August 1844 and ended on 25 January 1846, with 136 issues.
The protagonist of the novel, Edmond Dontés, is a sailor who became a first mate at a young age, and by chance, delivers a letter to Napoleon (at this time Napoleon's first failure and is embarking on the establishment of the Hundred Days Dynasty) and is betrayed by his friend Fernan. The protagonist is arrested by the authorities and sent to death row for life. During his imprisonment, the protagonist's father died of poverty and starvation. Fernand discredited Dontés and took over his fiancée.
Soon Napoleon made a comeback, the protagonist's friend Fernand as a French soldier fornicated with Britain, relying on foreign countries to attack his homeland official Fortune, and in the ensuing war by betraying his superiors and becoming lieutenant generals, and finally Fornan also killed his superiors, and even sold his boss's daughter into slavery.
In prison, the protagonist endured a long and dark 14 years of life.
Just when the protagonist is about to go crazy, he becomes acquainted with the legendary Godfather Faria. Faria has been digging tunnels in prison for decades to escape, but accidentally digs into the cell of the protagonist, Dontés, and gets a chance to get along. Like a mentor, Faria teaches the protagonist physics, chemistry, finance, history, politics, and other knowledge, and also trains him in fighting and fencing. Faria also tells the protagonist that there is a huge treasure on the island of Monte Cristo.
The protagonist of Dumas's pen, after 14 years of baptism, is like the protagonist of Jin Yong's novel, reborn.
Soon after Faria's death, Dontés moved flowers and trees, burrowed into the sack prepared by the jailers for Faria, escaped from the tiger's mouth, and came to Monte Cristo. Based on the clues provided by Faria, Dontés found a large amount of ancient treasure buried on the island.
Then there's revenge, the most exciting part of The Count of Monte Cristo. Dontés, alias Count of Monte Cristo, after a long period of planning, finally made a world of high society in France. He then designed to get Fernan's fiancée to leave him with her son, and also exposed some of his despicable deeds, which eventually caused Fernan to be discredited and eventually committed suicide.
The experience of the Count of Monte Cristo, from commoners to prisoners to the French upper class, shows the social state of France after Napoleon's death: people are melancholy and depressed, hypocrites reign.
The inspiration for the famous movie The Shawshank Redemption came from The Earl of Monte Cristo.
Life has fallen greatly, and the bitterness and hope are well displayed in literary works. The protagonists of novels or movies endure humiliation and bear weights in prison; studying, exercising; hard work, and hard work can make many people in difficulty feel empathy, be encouraged and not give up hope.
When I was young, I once lamented that "The Count of Monte Cristo" as a spiritual tonic has both strength and good taste.
A few days ago, I suddenly learned that "The Count of Monte Cristo" turned out to be like many novels, and the protagonist had a realistic archetype. It turned out that Dumas had read a true story called "The Diamond of Vengeance" from the 1838 book "Memoirs of the Paris Police Station Since Louis XIV". And this story, except for the ending, is almost the same as the trend of "The Count of Monte Cristo".
"The Diamond of Vengeance" tells the story of a French shoemaker who is preparing to get married, but is falsely accused of being imprisoned by a friend and imprisoned for seven years, and after his release, he is cared for by a priest who gives him a treasure before his death----- so far, even the treasure, which is an incomparably accidental factor that only happens in the story, the real-life shoemaker has also received. The shoemaker then, like the Count of Monte Cristo, returned to Paris in disguise for revenge. As a result, the shoemaker himself was killed.
Nietzsche said that those who can't kill you will eventually make you stronger. But after getting to know the archetype of The Count of Monte Cristo, it seems that those who can't kill you will eventually kill you. And as far as the "Count of Monte Cristo" novel itself is concerned, there are too many coincidence factors during the period, and it is obviously impossible for a person to encounter the protagonist Dantes in reality, a prisoner of the order, and want to take revenge on a general.
Mo said where did that magical treasure come from, and even if there was really this treasure, where could the gap in wealth, status, and strength be erased overnight?
People's lives come with ups and downs, and it is inevitable that we will encounter some people who make us miserable, and we must not forget them in the next ten, twenty, thirty years of life, and even when our hair is gray. In reality, we cannot obtain the treasure of Monte Cristo, and do those hatreds that cannot be forgotten have to go to the end?
This may be like the irreparable wear and tear inflicted on the knife by the whetstone, and if we are not eliminated, we will eventually become powerful. But if you want to take revenge on the whetstone, it doesn't matter if you are strong after you are killed.