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Chapter 22 / XXII - “The Smugglers” reading discussion
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1) Is Dantès’ physical and intellectual transformation a fourteen-year, slow-motion disguise? Or is this man, capable of deception and eager for revenge, who Dantès really is?

2) What do you make of the relationship between Jacopo and Dantès?

3) The allusion to Candide (“This world was not then so good as Doctor Pangloss believed it”) struck me, not so much for the substance but for the metatextuality. What effect do these reminders of the narrator’s presence—this reference to Voltaire, the occasional first-person phrase (“as we have said”)—have on the narration?

Final sentence of chapter:

”Nothing then was altered in the plan, and orders were given to get under weigh next night, and, wind and weather permitting, to make the neutral island by the following day.”

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