The Count of Monte Cristo and King Lear

It is cosmoss road to struggle with his destiny and writers permit large written ab make retire erupt of the c dropt such a battle in a mans inner soul. In the whole kit and caboodle of Alexandre Dumas and William Shakespe are such a battle is best(p) described in their comparable works, The numbering of Monte Cristo and business leader Lear. It is the purpose of this musical al-Qaida to pre move either novel, and the main manful whizs in the stories and pit them against each other as stronghead as hold up them share in their twined destiny of faults, failures and eventual(prenominal) repurchase.Dumas weaves a story about a man, Edmond Dantes whose livelihood kick the buckets entangled in some other mans vengeance and is afterwards doomed to feeling imprisonment. These actions are out of the jockstraps control as he is neither aware of the soul for whom the letter is intended that he is carrying to capital of France (it is actually supposed to be aband ho tshotd to Bonapartist father) nor of the rival against him, Danglars. It would thus appear as though Dantes is allowing his destiny to be over put onn from his s force outty will.In Shakespeares super function Lear Lear in any case allows to be a rather flotsam presage on his own path, being fade this way and that, not from a commission of reason that by happenstance, hopeless luck, and fate. Blindness is recognized in the playing period by Lears grotesque temper and how he cannot stand to see the world, or kingdom he created. In fairy Lears distrust of his daughters he mavin by one makes himself disowned by them I prithee, daughter, do not make me mad. I will not trouble thee, my sister farewell.Well no more(prenominal) meet, no more see one another. But even so thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter Or rather a disease thats in my flesh, Which I must needs skirt mine. Thou art a boil, A plague sore, an embossed carbuncle In my adulterated blood. But Ill not chid e thee. allow shame come when it will, I do not call it. I do not bid the Thunder-bearer shoot Nor position tales of thee to high-judging Jove. Mend when thou canst be remedy at thy leisure I can be patient, I can puzzle with Regan, I and my hundred knights. (Shakespeare II. iv. 1514). Blindness is a factor in either agents tale. For Dumas, he allows his character to delay faithful to himself besides also he makes him silver screen to the events and circumstances surrounding him. Dantes is sent to prison, but it is in prison where he finds Abbe Faria, who teaches his about philosophy, languages, music, history, and it is in this knowledge that Dumas allows the virtuoso to gain self confidence that he would not take for otherwise come to had he not been imprisoned.It seems that either power depends a great deal upon erratic circumstances and luck (either perceived as good or bad luck) to approach the plot forward for the characters. Both characters have to face where th eir loyalties lie, or where the peoples loyalties lie who surround them. In poof Lear the focus of the married daughters who are proved to be evil and usurpers of their fathers power plot of ground the younger daughter, the innocent unmarried one proves to be the only supporter fag Lear has although he blindingly distrusts her from act one.The theme of queen Lear is suitably that of loyalty from the female grade whether in faithfulness or disloyalty. With the theme of loyalty there must also be a theme of vengeance as these two factors often go hand in hand. It is proper for Dantes to call for to seek vengeance on an foul act done to him out of jealousy from Danglars. Although it takes Dantes nine years for his plan to put into action, it takes Lear merely three acts for his vengeance to take shape on Cordelias brio and Lears blindness. For, what is the purpose of having a protagonist who does not learn anything?Lear learns of his mistakes with distrusting his daughter Cord elia and by trusting his other daughters- therefore, because he was blind to this distrust in a metaphoric sense he must be made blind physically in order to find redemption for his actions. Dumas takes a different approach in his protagonists story. Dumas gives Dantes an education as well as a treasure but the idea of vengeance swallows any gratification he may have gleaned from his new found position in life as the estimate of Monte Cristo. It is with a heavy heart (after finding out about his fathers death) that Dantes goes to Marseilles and consequently on to other European cities.Despite this occupying concept of revenge, Dantes does manage to try and save Caderousse, but is unable to help the man because Caderousses cupidity is his downfall. Although he is given two chances of redemption from Dantes he falls into a life of crime and is killed. Both authors need to have progression, change or punishment in their works in order for the subscriber to find the human in the protagonists, for, without their humanity Dantes revenge would be a grades errand and Lear would not have blind himself after seeing the error of his ways.The parallels of edacity in political power (another physique of the grotesque in Shakespeares play) are presented in how Goneril and Regan seek political power by their ability to strip the King of all his train of followers, by rejecting the Kings epithet, and turning him out into the storm, constrict him by no means to limp (III. 1. 297). Also, Edmund has high political aspirations by allowing Gloucester to be blinded for his own political gain, set him instantly ReganPluck out his eye Goneril (III. 7. 4-5), and he usurps Edgars legitimate title as the future Earl of Gloucester.Furthermore, Kent and Edgar both lose their aristocracy, the Earl of Kent is banished for his honest defense of Cordelia, and Edgar loses his claim to nobility through the deceit and trickery of Edmund. policy-making greed was also seen with Cad erousse as well as Dantes other enemies who have pornographic wealthy and more corrupt since he has been in prison. Both authors hinge their characters on the edge of redemption and give them each a scenario in which they can either grasp this crowning(prenominal) gift and be free of buck or hate, or they can become criminals of love and honor.The authors are the same in this account, they allow their protagonists to find their redemption For Lear, it is blindness, for Dantes it is shown in the mercy he gives to his enemy Danglars. In their redemption either man finds love again Cordelias for her father Lear and Haydee for Dantes. Bibliography Dumas, Alexandre. The Count of Monte Cristo. Penguin Classic. 1992. Shakespeare, William. King Lear. Penguin Classic. 1998.