All 3 Uses of
instigate
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- What has become of Danglars, the instigator, and therefore the most guilty?
Chpt 27-28 *instigator = someone who started something or caused it to happen
- I suspect a hoax is intended, but the instigators of it little knew whom they had to deal with.†
Chpt 45-46
- Madame de Villefort, in spite of all the remarks which she considered it her duty to make, secretly approved of the proposition, my father consented to it at her instigation, and it was only on account of my poor grandfather that I finally abandoned the project.†
Chpt 57-58instigation = the act or process of starting something or causing it to happen
Definition:
start or set into motion -- typically some kind of conflict