![]() ‘Certainly women alone know how to dissemble,’ said Monte Cristo to himself glancing at Madame Danglars, who was smiling on the procureur du roi and embracing his wife. Dumas ought to have tightened up his premises instead of darkening the atmosphere. de Villefort, notwithstanding his self-control, was visibly affected and when Monte Cristo touched his hand, he felt it tremble. 5 We will escape, and if we cannot escape we will talk you of those whom you love, and I of those whom I love. My priestly office condemned me to celibacy: God sent you to me both to console the man who could not. You are my son Dantés You are the child of my captivity. The soul makes its own horizons your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky. Then, finally, they trustingly sewed a dead man up in a bag without burning his flesh with a red-hot iron in the morgue and without running him through with a bayonet at the guardhouse. A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. They even left a metal bowl in the cell, with which Dantès could dig through the floor. They didn't even have any peepholes, so d'If wasn't a prison at all, it was a seaside resort. At the Château d'If they didn't enter the cells and look around for days at a time. He doomed these unknown men to every torment that his inflamed imagination could devise, while still considering that the most frightful were too mild and, above all, too brief for them: torture. He decided it was human hatred and not divine vengeance that had plunged him into this abyss. And then they never changed the guard detail, whereas experience tells us that guards should be changed every two hours so one can check on the other. 24 of the best book quotes from Edmond Dantes. Count: 'Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.' Count: 'Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.' Dumas: 'He Monte Cristo realized that he had gone beyond. For years no one searched the cell, whereas cells are supposed to be searched every week. ![]() You can figure out why Dantès could escape. Not to mention his missing such nice details as the carrying of the latrine bucket from the cell daily, about which Dumas with the ignorance of a free person says nothing. Filmed countless times before, the story is revitalized by director Kevin Reynolds (rallying after Waterworld) and screenwriter Jay Wolpert, who wisely avoid the action-movie anachronisms. I observed that while Dumas tries to create a feeling of horror, he portrays the Château d'If as a rather benevolent prison. Revenge rarely gets sweeter than it does in The Count of Monte Cristo, a rousing, impeccably crafted adaptation of Alexandre Dumas pères literary classic. “I had a chance to read Monte Christo in prison once, too, but not to the end.
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