How does Dumas slowly relate the details of the Chateau d'If? What is the impact on the reader? How would the story have changed if Dumas had been more direct?
The gradual revelations involved in the details of Chateau d'If are certainly effective in the telling of the details. The fact is that telling more and more bad things of the prison over the course of multiple chapters really adds and adds to how awful the prison is. This is certainly effective.
Tom makes an interesting point. This tactic has an accumalating effect that keeps building. This adds a certain level of suspense, especially when he makes his attempt to escape the Chateau d'If. I think that the story would have lost much of the gloom that it acquires when Dumas tells it slowly. If it is directly revealed then the image is with the reader at first but begins to fade as the story goes on. By telling it slowly, Dumas places a constant image on this terrible place
As he slowly reveals the details of Chateau d'lf he impacts the reader greatly but subtley. He slowly builds up the horrible things that go on and have gone on in this place. This makes the reader enraged at this place and how Dantes has been unlawfully thrown in there. This is very effective in conveying the message and emotions to the reader.
I agree that it adds to the emotional side of the story. by describing the prison slowly it is able to sink in more for the reader and allows the reader to fully grasp the concept of the Chateau d'if.
The details of the prison are written very precisely. it is like an extended metaphor for death, symbolic of Dantes "dying" in the prison and being reborn as the count of Monte Cristo. the slow revelation also mirrors the slow transformation that Dantes goes through.
The gradual revelations involved in the details of Chateau d'If are certainly effective in the telling of the details. The fact is that telling more and more bad things of the prison over the course of multiple chapters really adds and adds to how awful the prison is. This is certainly effective.
ReplyDeleteTom makes an interesting point. This tactic has an accumalating effect that keeps building. This adds a certain level of suspense, especially when he makes his attempt to escape the Chateau d'If. I think that the story would have lost much of the gloom that it acquires when Dumas tells it slowly. If it is directly revealed then the image is with the reader at first but begins to fade as the story goes on. By telling it slowly, Dumas places a constant image on this terrible place
ReplyDeleteAs he slowly reveals the details of Chateau d'lf he impacts the reader greatly but subtley. He slowly builds up the horrible things that go on and have gone on in this place. This makes the reader enraged at this place and how Dantes has been unlawfully thrown in there. This is very effective in conveying the message and emotions to the reader.
ReplyDeleteI agree that it adds to the emotional side of the story. by describing the prison slowly it is able to sink in more for the reader and allows the reader to fully grasp the concept of the Chateau d'if.
ReplyDeleteThe details of the prison are written very precisely. it is like an extended metaphor for death, symbolic of Dantes "dying" in the prison and being reborn as the count of Monte Cristo. the slow revelation also mirrors the slow transformation that Dantes goes through.
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