Both Uses of
metamorphosis
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- His next care on leaving the barber's who had achieved his first metamorphosis was to enter a shop and buy a complete sailor's suit—a garb, as we all know, very simple, and consisting of white trousers, a striped shirt, and a cap.†
Chpt 22-23 *
- The girls looked with horror upon this shameful metamorphosis, the man of the world shaking off his covering and appearing as a galley-slave.†
Chpt 97-98
Definition:
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(metamorphosis) a complete change; or more specifically, the rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some insects