Extended Essays 2021

authors employ a particular method of using names, by referencing the God of the Old Testament and bestowing differing names to the protagonists, depending on the task necessary for their Machiavellian schemes. For example, Abbé Busoni, The Count of Monte Cristo , and Lord Wilmore and Locke Lamora, Lukas Fehrwight, and The Thorn of Camorr. The representation of the protagonists as transcendent beings can be seen in the texts, as promises of hope and freedom juxtapose the encouragement of vengeance through the symbol of the sea. This serves as a medium where the protagonists are reborn to a new way of living due to baptism. After implicitly establishing Dantès and Lamora as Godlike, Dumas and Lynch utilize dialogue to explicitly tell the reader that these characters are superhuman through the elixir and Jean Tannen which suggest that the protagonists have the power to take life.

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