THE COUNT OF MONTE Cristo - Dumas - G2/G3 - TEST MAY 1, 2008 THURSDAY
DISCLOSURE: THIS TEXT MUST BE BROUGHT TO CLASS DAILY FOR READING TIME.
REVENGE: (VT) REVENGED; REVENGING [ME FR. MF FR. OF RE-VENGIER TO AVENGE - MORE AT VENGEANCE FR OF - RE + VENGIER - MORE AT VENGENCE] (14C). 1. TO AVENGE (AS ONESELF) USUALLY BY RETALIATING IN KIND OR DEGREE. 2. TO INFLICT INJURY IN RETURN FOR (AN INSULT) - REVENGER (N).
REVENGE: (NOUN) [MF revenge, revenche, fr. revengier, revenchier to revenge] (1547) 1. a desire for revenge. 2. an act or instance of retaliating in order to get even. 3. an opportunity for getting satisfaction.
REVENGEFUL - (ADJ) (1586) FULL OF OR PRONE TO REVENGE: DETERMINED TO GET EVEN - REGENGEFULLY (ADV); REVENGEFULNESS (N).
“REVENGE.” WEBSTER’S NINTH NEW COLLEGIATE DICTIONARY. SPRINGFIELD, MASS: MERRIAM-WEBSTER, INC., 1998.
HOOK: IS REVENGE SWEET?
MARCH 27, 2008 - Handout - The Count of Monte Cristo (TCOMC) Historical Background/The Napoleonic Code Crowned By Time.
April 3, 2008 - Reading Dates/Quiz Dates/ - Test Date Announced + on board.
Students were to copy the dates.
SPRING BREAK - APRIL 7-11 - +MON - APRIL 14.
RETURN TO SCHOOL - TUES - APRIL 15, 2008 - GREEN DAY
QUIZ - APRIL 15, 2008 - GREEN DAY - CHAPTER 37 - XXXVII
QUIZ - APRIL 17, 2008 - GREEN DAY - CHAPTER - XLVIII
QUIZ - APRIL 21, 2008 - GREEN DAY - CHAPTER - LX
QUIZ - APRIL 23, 2008 - GREEN DAY - CHAPTER LXV
QUIZ - APRIL 25, 2008 - GREEN DAY - CHAPTER LXXXI
BOOK MUST BE READ BY - GREEN DAY - APRIL 29, 2008
TEST - THE COUNT OF MONTE CRIST TEXT - THURSDAY - MAY 1, 2008
AUTHOR: ALEXANDER DUMAS:
FIRST PUBLISHED: 1844 - 1845
FRAME: HISTORICAL:
1632-1715 - Absolute Monarchy Rule (Burbon Family).
1789-1799 - The French Revolution.
1792 - The First Republic was established.
1804-Napoleon founded the First Empire.
1814-Napoleon was exiled to Elba: Louis XVII came to power.
1815 - Napoleon returned to power, but was defeated at Waterloo.
Louis XVII regained the throne.
1848 - Revolutionist established the Second Republic.
1852 - Napoleon II founded the Second Empire.
1870-1871 - Prussia defeated France in the Franco-Prussian War.
The Third Republic is founded.
The Age of Absolutism: The power of the kings and their ministers grew steadily from 1500’s to 1700’s. The most power of the monarch’s Louis V, ruled with arrogant absolute authority attempting to extend his rule to all of Europe. In 1685, Louis canceled the Edict of Nates and began to persecute the Huguenots (Calvinist-Protestants) savagely: the French Monarch’s served the Catholic faith. About 200,000 Huguenots fled France, which weakened the country’s strong economy; and the construction of Louis’s grand Palace of Versailles along with a series of major wars, drained France’s finances.
The French Revolution: Later, King Louis XVI (1715-1774) called a meeting on May 5, 1779, of the Estates-General to win support for new taxes. The Estate-General was made up of representatives from the three estates, or classes - the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners. The Social inequity and high taxes levied on the already “poor” class with no hope for a raise in their income sent the French to the streets crying “Liberty.” On July 4, 1979, a hugh crowd of Parisians captured the royal fortress called the Bastille. Louis XVI was forced to give into a new government - ruled by a Constitution which called for a limited monarch and a one-house legislature. Louis XvII (1772-1792) was part of the Bourbon Dynasty in rule in France.
The First Republic: A National Convention, chosen in an election open to nearly all adult French males, began on September, 21. 1792, and declared France a republic. Civil and foreign wars pushed the new republican government to extreme and violent measures. Radical leaders such as Maximilien, Robespierre, gained power. They said that “Terror was necessary to preserve liberty ( 2). Thousands of people were executed. In time, radicals began to struggle for power among themselves. Roberspierre was condemned by his enemies and executed. His death marked the end of the period - called the Reign of Terror.
Napoleon: Napoleon Bonaparte rose through the ranks of the army and became a general in 1973. In 1799, Napoleon overthrew the revolutionary French government and seized control of France. By 1812, the declared Emperor/Dictator - Napoleon’s forces had conquered most of Western and central Europe and he ruled as an effective administrator. He was known as a genius with cunning skills and a hunger for ambition. However, this overextension of his power, caused him in 1814 to give up his throne. He was exiled to Elba, however, in 1815 he returned to France again for about three months before his final defeat at Waterloo. In 1848, Napoleon’s nephew was elected to a four-year term. He seized greater power illegally and in 1851 declared himself president for 10 years. In 1852, he established the Second Empire and declared himself Emperor Napoleon III.
The Third Republic: After Prussian victories in 1870, the French revolted against Napoleon III. Then, in 1871 a National Assembly was elected and the Assembly voted to continue the republic government, however, a new constitution was written. This constitution helped to strengthened the economy and French explorers and soldiers won a vast colonial empire in Africa and Asia.
Famous Quotes:
Lord Byron - British Poet (1788-1824) - “Revenge is Sweet…”
William Shakespeare - poet/playwright (1564-1616) - Two Quotes! (since he is a man of many words:
“O, as kiss/Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge!” (Shakespeare V, iii, 44)
Antony and Cleopatra
How all occasions do inform against me.
And spur my dull revenge! What is a man-
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed?
Sure he that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and god-like readon
To fist in us unused.
(Shakespeare IV, iv, 32)
Hamlet
Laruen Bacall - Actor/playwright (1924-) - “Revenge triumphs over death: love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.”
FOOD FOR THOUGHT:
DEMONSTRATE HOW DANTE USES THE WEAKNESSES AND THE SECRET SINS OF HIS ENEMIES TO DEFEAT THEM.
