O Conde de Monte Cristo, de Alexandre Dumas: Uma denúncia à hipocrisia e às imoralidades da burguesia francesa no século XIX

Abstract

This article constructs an analysis of the book The Count of Monte Cristo (1846), by Alexandre Dumas, with a view to highlighting a critique of the bourgeois society of his time, with regard to immoral conduct for social and political ascension in France, in the 19th century. XIX. In the context of the novel, the betrayal suffered by the protagonist Edmond Dantès resulted in his arrest and suffering. This coup was the result of the work of three antagonists (Danglars, Fernand and Villefort), representatives of this Parisian bourgeoisie, all of whom are involved in a series of corrupt acts for their own benefit. Therefore, it is possible to understand Alexandre Dumas's novel as a space of discursive and critical counterpoint – in the game of literary representation – to this new dominant class. In this interpretative context, Antônio Cândido's critical and sociological method, which thinks of the external world as an internal element of the work, serves us as theoretical and methodological guidance. This analysis, therefore, will enable other interpretative keys for this classic work of Western literature, in the field of crossing “literature” and “society”.