The Count of Monte Cristo Na Noli Me Tangere

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As I watched the movie “The Count of Monte Cristp”, the plots of Dr. Rizal’s books, the El Filibusterismo and Noli Me Tangere flashed back to my mind. I noticed similarities in them: Ibarra’s abduction and imprisonment and the undying love for Maria Clara in Noli Me Tangere, his disguise as Simoun and revenge in El Filibusterismo and Dantes’ abduction and imprisonment in Chateau d’If and his undying love for his fiancee Mercedes and his comeback as the count of Monte Cristo to have his revenge. Rizal must have a good time reading Alexander Dumas’ obra maestro.And after the movie ended, I was able to give a justification why it was made into a movie. It was indeed a kind of classical story that’s not to be missed . In the film, the main character was Edmund Dantes who was an illiterate yet innate intellectual man. He was about to get a great future being the captain of the ship they were aboard with and he won’t be waiting for two years to marry his exquisite fiancée, Mercedes. But due to Danglar, Villefort and Fernand’s betrayal, the promising future of Dantes instantly went gone when he was imprisoned in Chateau d’If. I can find some resemblance with this character of Dantes in Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere in the presence also of the main character in the novel who was Crisostomo Ibarra. Ibarra would also have grand opportunities like marrying Maria Clara, building the school which he always wanted and even forgiving the enemies of his father yet all of these went gone when the friars denounced him. But just one of the characters’ differences is that Ibarra was educated and rich while Dantes was illiterate and poor though he gained wisdom with the help of the priest in Chateau d’If later in the movie. Dantes escaped from prison when he laid in a rolled mat as if he was the dead priest while Ibarra escaped through the help of Elias. It was like they were helped by
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