Alexandre Dumas is the author of the adventurous love story The Count of Monte Cristo, which uses both internal and external conflict as well as imagery . These literary elements reinforce the theme that revenge can drive a man to do the unthinkable. Dumas used these elements to tell the history of France. His bestselling novels are not deep but have spectacular adventures, action, and larger-than-life characters. Alexandre Dumas was a 19th-century French playwright and author and was born on July 24, 1802 in Ville-Cotterets, France. He is the son of an innkeeper's daughter named Marie Louis Labouret and a general named Thomas Alexandre Davy la Pailletereie. He is the third child born to his mother. Dumas' father was the son of Marquis Alexandre Davy La Pailleterie who married his grandmother Marie Louise Cessete Dumas, who was a Haitian slave. When her grandparents married, her grandfather took her under his surname Dumas (“Biography of Alexandre Dumas”; Online-literature.com 126, “Dumas, Alexandre”). Dumas grew up a rather unhappy child. His father was killed while fighting in Napoleon's army at the age of 40, when Dumas was only four years old. Following the death of his father, his family became impoverished. His mother did her best to raise him, but the main thing was his education. He attended Abbé Grégoire's school where he discovered that he was not the best student but it was there that he found his passion for writing ("Biography of Alexandre Dumas"; "Dumas, Alexander » 126). Dumas did not go to college after school but instead left his home and moved to Paris where he worked as a clerk at the age of 20. Dumas grew up with a sense of writing from the heart but never really used his heart, especially...... middle of paper.... ..d Mondego, and finally Villefort. These characters trigger the conflict of these three men conspiring against Dantes and ruining his life. It is a man versus man conflict because they are in conflict with each other. Works cited “Alexandre Dumas père”. Cadytech.com. Cadytech, np Web. April 22, 2014. “Alexandre Dumas father. » Online-literature.com CD Merriman for Jalic Inc., 2008. Web. April 22, 2014..“Biography of Alexandre Dumas.” Gradesaver.com. Gradsaver LLC, 1999-2014. Web.April 24, 2014. “Dumas, Alexandre. » Literary lifelines. 1998. Print. Dumas, Alexandre. Count Monte Cristo. New York: Signet Classics, 2005. Print.Liukkoonen, Petri. "Alexandre Dumas (sr.) (1802-1870 - known as Dumas père." Kirjusto.sci.fi.Kussankosken Kaupunginkirjusto, 2008. Web. April 23, 2014. Oxenhander, Neal. "A. Dumas." The McGraw -Hill Encyclopedia of World Biography 1973. Print..