A. likes Count of Monte Cristo

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[gabe-dasha]

I love how in almost every adaptation of "The Count of Monte Cristo" the Abbe's last words are something like "Remember, do not let vengance consume you. Promise me you won't seek revenge. Justice is served by God" or smth like this, while in the book, the literal source material, he just goes "Find the treasure on the island of Monte Cristo. Get the money" and then dies.

This book is so unhinged, I can't even. It's pure chaos. Don't let anyone ever convince you that it's sophisticated classic literature. Dumas loved drama, schemes, adventures and dumb ironic humor.

[vforvalensa]

The Count of Monte Cristo (the book) has such a funny version of the dracula problem. In the first third of the book we, the readers, get a very detailed picture of how Edmond Dantes gets his whole life ruined, becomes the Count of Monte Cristo, and concocts the most convoluted revenge plot in literature. But after that, the book switches over to the perspective of characters that did not read the first third of the book and broadly misapprehend the Count's deal and what kind of book they're in. There's even a character that straight up thinks the Count is a vampire.

[gigiheart]

The Count of Monte Cristo

[rookamell]

Writing isn't the hobby. Being insane about little fake people is the hobby. Writing is just the only outlet i have for that

[comtedemoncoeur]

(The Count of Monte Cristo, 2024)

[zoologica42]

is this anything

(we need more Count of Monte Cristo stuff on this site so bad)

[reine-du-sourire]

YES YES YES

[besotted-with-austen]

The Count of Monte Cristo: I have been preparing my plan for years and there is nothing I don’t know! This is MY Dark & Gritty Revenge Story, I am writing it and everyone else is only ink under my pen!

Maximilien Morrel: oh, so you know about my Romeo-and-Juliet subplot?

The Count of Monte Cristo: your what

[fullest-circlest]

If you're writing 18th century dialogue, this website lets you search words and phrases to double-check whether they were in use & meant what you intend. It doesn't include every period-accurate use of a word/phrase, but it certainly helped me separate genuine 18th century grammar from the vague tangle of 💬old-fashioned fancy-speak💬 I've internalized from TV and video games.

[nothwell]

[pegasusdrawnchariots]

Me single-handedly flooding the tags of 19th-century French texts w memes & gifs:

[comtedemoncoeur]

There’s an Edmond Dantès shaped hole in my life now that I finished tcomc. What… am I supposed to do with myself?

[pharahsgf]

i find it interesting how all three of the main 'conspirators' in the count of monte cristo have a sort of unique relationship to their guilt & how the count is able to identify and exploit this while meting out his revenge

like you have fernand who even years later is haunted by shame and paranoia re: what he did to both edmond dantès and ali pasha, to the point where it all being revealed and made public drives him to litcherally kill himself to avoid having to face his destroyed reputation and his family's rejection of him, even if he doesn't seem to actually regret his actions in a moral sense

and you have villefort who makes up false narratives to absolve himself of wrongdoing and sustains himself on the belief that he was right to do All That, even though or especially because it's his job to judge, condemn and punish those who've done exactly as much wrong as he has. and crucially the book acknowledges that unlike fernand he has the chance to lie and protect himself, but when he's faced with living evidence of his crimes & can no longer rely on the moral architecture he used to survive, he becomes so overwhelmed by his guilt he completely collapses under the weight of it, in a way even the count did not expect.

and meanwhile danglars' punishment is just an ongoing background event throughout all this because he literally doesn't fucking care and feels zero remorse for anything he did, so the count has no real avenues of attack besides just taking danglars' money until he seems sufficiently upset lmao

[quasi-normalcy]

Did people in the nineteenth century have a concept of spoilers? Like, were they getting angry at people for talking about the latest chapter of The Count of Monte Cristo when they hadn't read this week's issue of Journal des Debats or whatever?

[leseigneurdelorage]

omg i just realised something! when Monte Cristo gets Benedetto/Andrea arrested, he sikes the police after him on the day he's supposed to get married (engaged?) to Eugénie Danglars!! just like Edmond was arrested just before he was married!!!!

[leseigneurdelorage]

i have been mulling all night over it because I thought, there was a lot of parallelism in revenge.

Danglars gets almost starved to death because M. Dantès Sr starved to his death.

Fernand loses the woman he loves like Edmond did.

Caderousse gets backstabbed by a friend and left to slowly bleed out as "Bussoni" watches, just like he backstabbed pretty much everyone (i think he killed his own wife as well?) and watched without intervening when Fernand and Danglars backstabbed Edmond.

Villefort sent Edmond to jail without a trial in order to protect his good name/his family's reputation, and then his good name is utterly ruined, his family's reputation is ruined, and he loses his entire family. Also would have been sent to jail if he hadn't gone mad.

And there's also a parallelism in what they managed to get from betraying him, and that he rips from them: Villefort got his position, which is ripped from him; Fernand got a high grade and respect from everyone, boom taken from him; Danglars got money, and then he gets ruined.

But what did Edmond get from having all this theatrics put in place for Benedetto, who honestly never deserved a Special Revenge à la Monte Cristo Sauce the way the others did?

Well it wasn't about Benedetto. By sending the police to the ceremony, Monte Cristo gets back at Danglars. He interrupts the ceremony of Danglars' only child the way the letter had interrupted his father's only child's wedding. The starving to death was also M. Dantès-themed. He is avenging himself with Villefort and Fernand, but for Danglars, he is just avenging his father, again and again.

[athemontecristoposter]

This book goes so deep. You think you've scratched all layers and then surprise!

[leseigneurdelorage]

omg i just realised something! when Monte Cristo gets Benedetto/Andrea arrested, he sikes the police after him on the day he's supposed to get married (engaged?) to Eugénie Danglars!! just like Edmond was arrested just before he was married!!!!

[leseigneurdelorage]

i have been mulling all night over it because I thought, there was a lot of parallelism in revenge.

Danglars gets almost starved to death because M. Dantès Sr starved to his death.

Fernand loses the woman he loves like Edmond did.

Caderousse gets backstabbed by a friend and left to slowly bleed out as "Bussoni" watches, just like he backstabbed pretty much everyone (i think he killed his own wife as well?) and watched without intervening when Fernand and Danglars backstabbed Edmond.

Villefort sent Edmond to jail without a trial in order to protect his good name/his family's reputation, and then his good name is utterly ruined, his family's reputation is ruined, and he loses his entire family. Also would have been sent to jail if he hadn't gone mad.

And there's also a parallelism in what they managed to get from betraying him, and that he rips from them: Villefort got his position, which is ripped from him; Fernand got a high grade and respect from everyone, boom taken from him; Danglars got money, and then he gets ruined.

But what did Edmond get from having all this theatrics put in place for Benedetto, who honestly never deserved a Special Revenge à la Monte Cristo Sauce the way the others did?

Well it wasn't about Benedetto. By sending the police to the ceremony, Monte Cristo gets back at Danglars. He interrupts the ceremony of Danglars' only child the way the letter had interrupted his father's only child's wedding. The starving to death was also M. Dantès-themed. He is avenging himself with Villefort and Fernand, but for Danglars, he is just avenging his father, again and again.

[leseigneurdelorage]

Le Comte de Monte Cristo should be adapted in a How I Met Your Mother way. Like with a voiceover and in a way that's not fully chronologically linear.

(Villefort is digging something in his backyard, a small coffer next to him. A corsican suddenly jumps from the shadows and stabs him while screaming "REVENGE FOR MY BROTHER!")

*freeze frame* *narrator: wait, why did this happen again? Oh right, you see kids, a couple of years/months prior, Villefort had refused to prosecute...*

(backstory ends. Bertuccio opens the chest and finds a seemingly dead baby in it.)

*freeze frame* *narrator voice: and this, kids, is how your uncle Bertuccio met your cousin Benedetto*

(idek if it implies Benedetto survived or Monte Cristo had children with Haydee or Mercedes and is telling them the story. The narrator voice SHOULD raise a lot of questions and we shouldn't have any answers until the very end)

[emwheezie]

"time heals all wounds" WRONG. time is chasing me with a knife

[teamfortresstwo]

I have recently realized that I have been thinking about Heloise too much in terms of the implications of her storyline and her role in the narrative - which are all important things of course - that I’ve neglected her as like . An actual character . Yknow her personality the emotions she exhibited rather than the ones she bottled up which , while interesting to dissect , don’t generally impact her behavior noticeably on account of the bottled up