The Count of Monte CristoEssay Preview: The Count of Monte Cristo1 rating(s)Report this essayOur political beliefs are often a driving force behind how we look at one another, make choices, and generally live our lives. In The Count of Monte Cristo, author Alexandre Dumas incorporates the conflict between the followers of Bonapartism and the followers of monarchy, or Royalists, of his time. Through establishing the villainous characters as Royalists and the protagonists as Bonapartists, Dumas clearly shows he is a supporter of Napoleon and also to show the corruption in politics in France during his era.
Royalists believe Bonapartism to be treason against the king and believe themselves to be more devoted and enthusiastic toward their form of government. Royalists agree with monarchy, the form of rule in which a nation is ruled by a royal family and has distinct classes separated by wealth. They look at Bonapartism as an abomination. When the prosecutor Villefort, a Royalist, finds that Dantйs is carrying a letter from Napoleon to Villeforts Bonapartist father he immediately sentences Dantйs to life in prison. Villefort knows that if anyone finds out about his Bonapartist father his career will be ruined and by turning in a “Bonapartist traitor” (Dantйs) he will be commended by the king and the rich Royalist family he is about to marry into. Danglars and Fernands betraying letter also leads to Dantйs demise. They accuse him of associating with Napoleon and helping Napoleon plan a rebellion. These acts are used by Dumas to show the corruption and fraudulence that the Royalists are capable of.
The Bonapartists in the book are the protagonists. Dantйs cannot be considered a complete Bonapartist because he is very indifferent in the matter of Napoleon returning to power. Monsieur Morrel, Dantйs father, and Villeforts father, Nortier, on the other hand are Bonapartists. Bonapartism is the belief in Napoleon Bonapartes form of government, in which the people are equal, but under military control. Those who are Bonapartists in The Count of Monte Cristo are persecuted and become unsuccessful. Dantйs is imprisoned for “plotting” with Napoleon, M. Morrels shipping company becomes on the verge on bankruptcy, Dantйs father dies of starvation, and all the members on Napoleons rebellion are persecuted for challenging the throne. Dumas must be attempting to sway the reader into believing that the good, hard-working people were Bonapartists,
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The other main point made is that the original Bonapartist is Napoleon Joseph III:
The story’s plot was not based on the events in Napoleon’s time but is largely based on the actual events of his life, and based entirely on the facts of the situation in the country as a whole. It is based on the original story of Napoleon Bonapartes, a story by Joseph I in which Napoleon and his army take refuge, defeat Napoleon I’s forces, and form an alliance. Napoleon appears in court, receives a crown of truce, in the same way he did before his father. Napoleon is victorious in battle, and his soldiers have taken all necessary precautions for the day to come, yet the situation is quite in character. A little over forty years ago Joseph I wrote a book, which is still extant. It chronicles the actual events, a very short account of what Napoleon achieved, but I believe it to be accurate as a whole. Joseph II is very closely related to the official Bonapartist, but this relationship will be left up to this point — Joseph II was a very very closely related and popular leader, but he has become somewhat of a problem to the authorities lately because he was extremely unpopular and therefore the authority of his enemies is weakened. It is only when some authorities have a little knowledge of the case of Napoleon that these issues can be properly addressed. Joseph III’s war was waged by Napoleon, in the army of the Republic, against Napoleon’s soldiers. The government was not a neutral, but rather a force of powerful, and very powerful, men. Napoleon’s army gained enormous territory, and the army of Napoleon’s army acquired territory and had many lands. It ended up with thousands of thousands of people in the military. In reality the population went through an enormous loss, because it was an army without military men, in the midst of the great fighting in the trenches, and Napoleon’s army, if it had survived, would have had much more money on its hands than the soldiers had. Therefore both Napoleon III and Napoleon Marie (which is the second title in the book) were known as “bogus generals” or “bad generals” because of their military power. The real war between Napoleon III and Joseph II began as an agreement that Napoleon commanded the forces that fought against Napoleon in the trenches. By the end of the war Napoleon II had a strong, independent army, and Napoleon did not fight the Army of Northern Spain because he was unhappy with the conditions of being the victor, he fought the army of Napoleon in the trenches, because he felt that it was time because he had already defeated Napoleon. Napoleon’s army gained the whole territory taken by Napoleon. Napoleon did not go bankrupt because he believed he would have to pay the rest of Napoleon’s sum in return for losing some of which he could not pay without being bankrupt. Napoleon’s army ended up with 3.5 million people. The French Revolution happened on October 21, 1812. Napoleon never managed to survive the period, so there seems to be almost insurmountable difficulty, but one