Musketeer

The Three Musketeers book has a lot of information about D’Artagnan. D’Artagnan was a poor man who left his house to become a Musketeer. He left Gascony go to Paris to make his fortune. He never married and he was a hot-headed, prideful and especially young man who never gave up on a fight. He had a problem with Stranger and Musketeers. He never asked people for help because he wanted to solve his own problems, no matter how dangerous the enemy was. He never surrendered. He fought until someone died or was wounded. He wanted to show he had a heart like the chief and also showed how he was not scared of the enemy. In chapter four the King, Mr. De Treville and other Musketeers congratulated D'Artagnan on winning his fight against Jussac, Captain…

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Alexandre Dumas was one of the most successful authors of the nineteenth century. He confronted poverty, lack of education opportunities, and countless racist occurrences. His books have been translated into hundreds of languages, and are still popular to this day. Many of which books have been made into films, including the count of monte cristo and the 1993 three disney film, the three musketeers. The discrimination Dumas experienced was usually subtle but aggravating. Dumas used his…

I never really had any friends like my new best friend, but I loved it, and I realized that is how real best friends should be. I started to drift even further away from my old friends because I realized that there was a big difference between my friendship with them, and my friendship with my best friend, and I did not feel as if the other version was worth keeping. I also did not feel as if I was losing anything because I had my best friend that was like family. Soon we acquired a third…

French novelist Alexandre Dumas père, son of General Alex Dumas, is best known for writing famous works such as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. Born son to the obscure General Alex Dumas, Alexandre too shared in the blood of both a black slave and a white aristocrat. General Dumas died when Alexandre was a young child of not even 4 years of age. Highly romanticized and biased towards his father, the writings left behind by Alexandre père, are basically the main source when it…

The title of the book “The Three Musketeers” references the Three men who are known as Musketeers, Aramis, Porthos, and Athos. However, the author left out that there was another man who strives to become a Musketeer. Not only that, but later on he becomes the lieutenant of the Musketeers at the end of the story. His name is D'Artagnan. He is a young man who is driven by love, ambition, and his sense of morality. He is the main character of the book. The author wrote the book knowing that in…

In the beginning on the novel we see the hot-headedness of the main character d’Artagnan. He stops in the town of Meung on his way to paris and gets into a fight with a gentlemen who makes fun of him and his mount (Wordsworth, 1993). The gentleman and a group of his lackeys beat d'Artagnan unconscious. When he comes back to his senses he realizes they stole his introduction letter to Monsieur de Treville, head of the King's Musketeers, the elite group of soldiers who make up the King and Queen's…

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Alexandre Dumas, a French novelist whose works is most profound in historical adventure novels, wrote numerous novels that have been interpreted into a diverse range of languages and into films. One of the most prominent historical adventure novels that he had written was the The Three Musketeers. Dumas wrote the novel in the seventeenth century, as absolute monarchy was arising in France specifically. Ideally, loyalty and honor are illustrated in any type of relationship despite the…

In Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo, there are various influences on the book, from the literary influences to the biographical influences. Some of these influences are Dumas’ father, the French Romanticism Period, and the story of Pyramus and Thisbe from Greek Mythology. One of the largest influences on The Count of Monte Cristo was Dumas’ father. Dumas’ father was a general with Napoleon in the 1790s. “But when the general left the ranks for France, he was captured, imprisoned and poisoned by…