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Shakespearean influence on Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo?
What is William Shakespeare's influence (specifically Romeo and Juliet's) on Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo? So far I have the sleeping apparatuses. What else is there?
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- ?Lv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
Both stories have a theme of forbidden love. Valentine and Maximilien keep their love for each other a
secret from their families, just as in R & J.
V & M meet in a secret garden - so do R & J
To the Count, Valentine appears dead after being "poisoned"., but in reality she is then stowed away on the Isle of Monte Cristo to await Maximillien. In this scenario Maximillien is much like Romeo and Valentine like Juliet.₁ Maximillien, believing his love to be dead, has the desire to commit suicide, but when the count gives him the poison to fulfill his promise, it only knocks him out.
Both stories alluded to the story of Pyramus and Thisbe, a story of two "star-crossed lovers".
Both stories show how 'the fates' or 'the stars' or man' is against the romance and how the couples battle against this unseen force.
