Oct 12, 2009 11:17 PM
Gankutsuou 21-24 V.S. The Count of Monte Cristo
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-In the novel after fleeing Paris, Danglars went to Rome and wound up captured by Luigi Vampa’s bandits (again working in conspiracy with the Count). The bandits kept Danglars locked in a cell until he he nearly starved, finally extorting huge sums of money from him for food. After a long drawn out experience he finally gave up the last of his ill-gotten money, and the Count of Monte Cristo appeared from behind a pillar, revealing his true identity to Danglars. The Count asked Danglars is he repented for his misdeeds, Danglars declared that he did, and the Count said he forgave the man. The bandits fed Danglars a meal of the finest foods and wines of Rome, presented him the last 50,000 francs that rightly belonged to himself, then kicked him out into the street.
-Much like the other two conspirators in the story, Villefort does not have the strength to make denials when confronted with the horrors of his past in their every detail. When Benedetto tells his story in court, Villefort suffers tremendously in public humilation and admits the truth of Benedetto’s claims.
-Benedetto wasn’t found by a servant and raised in an Orphenage in the novel’s version of the story. The Count’s servant Bertuccio recovered baby Benedetto from the Villefort’s garden during an assassination attempt, stemming from the fact that Villefort would not pay due compensation to the widow of Bertuccio’s brother, who died fighting for France under Napoleon’s government. (Villefort was a royalist, and the French Republic had been deposed.) Bertuccio carried the boy off with him and ended up raising him even though he was a badly natured boy, until sometime in his teenage years when he ran off and wound up in prison with Caderousse.
-Benedetto didn’t try to kill Villefort at the trial. (And actually, in the novel the trial was for Benedetto’s murder of Caderousse, not for the poisoning cases which Villefort and the family doctor kept secret.) Like a good son, all Benedetto did in the courtroom encounter was publically shame his father.
-Villefort did go mad in the novel; not from poison, but from the increasing pressure of having half his household poisoned, the return of his supposedly dead son and ruin of his career, and the revelation of the Count of Monte Cristo’s true identity.
-What the Count discovered in prison in the original novel was not an ethereal spirit of revenge, but a highly educated old Italian known as the Abbe Faria, who also possessed the secret of an ancient and valuable royal treasure. In their time together Edmond and Faria manage to work out the secret of Edmond’s betrayal, plan an escape from the Chateau D’If, and educate Edmond in the languages, manners and sciences of the world in preparation for his revenge.
-I’m sure my previous comments have already made this clear, but in the novel there was no military coup by Fernand after his disgrace at the assembly at the hands of Haydee. He was thoroughly disgraced by the experience and took his own life. The only alternative would have been imprisonment or execution for his crimes of treason.
-At the end of the Count of Monte Cristo, with the revenge completed and the bulk of the Count’s fortune in the hands of Maximilian and Valentine, the Count sets sail with Haydee to points unknown for a second chance at life and love.
-In the final episode Maximilian states his intention to buy back the Morrel family’s vessal Pharaon. In the novel, thanks to a valuable gift from the Count, who repaid his friends for their loyalty before getting back at his enemies, Maximilian’s father never had to sell the ship.
-In the novel, after departing Paris with his mother, Albert signs up for military service in Africa and departs France to start building his own, legitimate reputation. The story ends before his return.
-In the novel, the letter at the end of the story with the words “Wait and hope” was addressed to Maximilian from the Count. The body of the letter contained the list of assets the count was handing over the Maximilian and Valentine. The words “Wait and hope” were not a plea to a lover to wait patiently for her fiancée’s return, but deep words of wisdom from a God-fearing man whose last hope was almost stolen from him by despair.
-Much like the other two conspirators in the story, Villefort does not have the strength to make denials when confronted with the horrors of his past in their every detail. When Benedetto tells his story in court, Villefort suffers tremendously in public humilation and admits the truth of Benedetto’s claims.
-Benedetto wasn’t found by a servant and raised in an Orphenage in the novel’s version of the story. The Count’s servant Bertuccio recovered baby Benedetto from the Villefort’s garden during an assassination attempt, stemming from the fact that Villefort would not pay due compensation to the widow of Bertuccio’s brother, who died fighting for France under Napoleon’s government. (Villefort was a royalist, and the French Republic had been deposed.) Bertuccio carried the boy off with him and ended up raising him even though he was a badly natured boy, until sometime in his teenage years when he ran off and wound up in prison with Caderousse.
-Benedetto didn’t try to kill Villefort at the trial. (And actually, in the novel the trial was for Benedetto’s murder of Caderousse, not for the poisoning cases which Villefort and the family doctor kept secret.) Like a good son, all Benedetto did in the courtroom encounter was publically shame his father.
-Villefort did go mad in the novel; not from poison, but from the increasing pressure of having half his household poisoned, the return of his supposedly dead son and ruin of his career, and the revelation of the Count of Monte Cristo’s true identity.
-What the Count discovered in prison in the original novel was not an ethereal spirit of revenge, but a highly educated old Italian known as the Abbe Faria, who also possessed the secret of an ancient and valuable royal treasure. In their time together Edmond and Faria manage to work out the secret of Edmond’s betrayal, plan an escape from the Chateau D’If, and educate Edmond in the languages, manners and sciences of the world in preparation for his revenge.
-I’m sure my previous comments have already made this clear, but in the novel there was no military coup by Fernand after his disgrace at the assembly at the hands of Haydee. He was thoroughly disgraced by the experience and took his own life. The only alternative would have been imprisonment or execution for his crimes of treason.
-At the end of the Count of Monte Cristo, with the revenge completed and the bulk of the Count’s fortune in the hands of Maximilian and Valentine, the Count sets sail with Haydee to points unknown for a second chance at life and love.
-In the final episode Maximilian states his intention to buy back the Morrel family’s vessal Pharaon. In the novel, thanks to a valuable gift from the Count, who repaid his friends for their loyalty before getting back at his enemies, Maximilian’s father never had to sell the ship.
-In the novel, after departing Paris with his mother, Albert signs up for military service in Africa and departs France to start building his own, legitimate reputation. The story ends before his return.
-In the novel, the letter at the end of the story with the words “Wait and hope” was addressed to Maximilian from the Count. The body of the letter contained the list of assets the count was handing over the Maximilian and Valentine. The words “Wait and hope” were not a plea to a lover to wait patiently for her fiancée’s return, but deep words of wisdom from a God-fearing man whose last hope was almost stolen from him by despair.
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