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Count Of Monte CristoThere are many subplots involving The Count of Monte Cristo’s adversaries. The first one started out in Rome where the count met two young men, Albert de Morcerf and Franz d’Epinay. The Count became a great friend to the two young men and even saved Albert’s life when the Italian bandit, Luigi…

Count of Monte Cristo Every man has his rise and his downfall. His rise can be attributed to hard work, dedication to accomplishing a set goal, or possibly even luck. Sometimes a man can become jealous of another man’s fortune and wish for his downfall. He might even try to make this wish come true…

Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine. After his parents’ separation when he was a toddler, he and his older brother David were raised by their mother. They lived in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where Stephen’s father’s side of the family lived. Later, they moved to Stratford, Connecticut, where Stephen spent most of his childhood….

Every man has his rise and his downfall. His rise can be attributed to hard work, dedication to accomplishing a set goal, or possibly even luck. Sometimes a man can become jealous at another mans fortune and wish for his downfall. He might even try to make this wish come true in an innumerous amount…

The conversation starts out with the narrator setting up the story and the scene, as most do. An indication is made about the setting in the café with the leaves giving a shadow and hence telling us that the story was taking place on a patio or street of the café. An old man that…

In the morning, she went in to check on her son as usual. She knocked gently and pushed the door open. The morning light was obscured by the half-drawn blind. She stood for a moment, looking around the boy’s room in the dimness. She pulled on the blind and sunlight engulfed the room. She looked…

Dr Faustus is a short play written by Christopher Marlowe. The play is a masterful insight into the paradoxical soul of mankind and its ironically self inflicted corruption. The play could be classification as a theological allegory. It can be assumed that the play specifically speaks to the religious motivations of the time, but can…

A monologue from the play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Faust. Trans. Bayard Taylor. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1898. FAUST: In misery! In despair! Long wretchedly astray on the face of the earth, and now imprisoned! That gracious, ill-starred creature shut in a dungeon as a criminal, and given up…

A monologue from the play by Christopher Marlowe NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Masterpieces of the English Drama. Ed. William Lyon Phelps. New York: American Book Company, 1912. FAUSTUS: Ah, Faustus.Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,And then thou must be damn’d perpetually!Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven,That time may cease,…

In The Arabian Nights, there are hundreds of stories intertwined with each other. There are three main motives of the tellers: to avoid death or punishment, to prove the storyteller’s point, and characteristics to look for in a spouse. The outermost story is that of Shahrazad, told by the narrator, who is a storyteller that…