All 4 Uses of
Hercules
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- But the rock was too heavy, and too firmly wedged, to be moved by any one man, were he Hercules himself.†
Chpt 23-24 *
- Ah, this gentleman is a Hercules killing Cacus, a Perseus freeing Andromeda.†
Chpt 39-40
- "Ah, you do well to ask," said Eugenie, laughing; "I forgot that I was Hercules, and you only the pale Omphale!"†
Chpt 97-98
- The gratings are every day carefully examined by jailers, whose herculean proportions and cold pitiless expression prove them to have been chosen to reign over their subjects for their superior activity and intelligence.†
Chpt 107-108
Definition:
-
(Hercules) mythological Roman hero famous for his strength and for performing 12 immense labors to gain immortality