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Is the Count of Monte Cristo really a historical person? -- Smerdis of Tlön 03:22, 14 Oct 2003 (UTC)
I don't think The Count of Monte Cristo is a real person, I think it's just the character from Dumas' book, but I'm not positive. Does anyone know this for a fact???
- You are correct, The Count of Monte Cristo is purely fictional.
Not entirely fictional alas! But indeed Dumas, like old good storytellers, knew very well how to blend fact and fiction so as in order to create Myth. Washington Irving as another author adept at it. For his most famous story after the Three Musketeers Dumas used an old Parisian police registry in which it was reported that two men set up a third in order for him to be wrongly convicted. There is more to this real story and other editors may want to add to it but from what I know Dumas took the framework of a real existing story out of an old registry and made the poor devil into the greatest Vigilante ever to roam the planet on this side of fiction, and on yonder of reality. But how far fetched is it really for a man who has been falsely accused and robbed of all he had to turn to vengeance and to mold himself into a Count who rules over all? Did not Ovid say that if we cannot hate, we should unwillingly love? Hate indeed may be the greatest motivator of all time. Nothing else will stimulate a man to make a comeback, as would vengeance. Deep in a jail or dungeon, a man's hate feeds him and sustains him to live on, as milk sustains an infant. So yes, a character from a book, but also someone who once lived, but in the end, the Count is you as well as me.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.123.162.4 (talk) 01:11, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
