The Analysis of The Three Muskeeters by Alexandre Dumas

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INTRODUCTION

The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers is a novel from 17th century who made by Alexandre Dumas. The novel tells about D'artagnan who wants to be a musketeer and the three musketeer (Athos, Porthos and Aramis). This novel shows us about the adventurer of four people in the old regime at that time. 

CONTENT

PLOT

Exposition

D’Artagnan went to the city in order to bring the sword for Treville and wants to be musketeer.

• In the beginning of the story, D’Artagnan’s father begs to his son D’Artagnan to bring a sword for Treville (Old friend D’Artagnan’s father). D’Artagnan’s father gave some advices to his son do not afraid to anyone who wants to fight or mock him except the king or the queen because they are the musketeers who only loyal with the king and the queen. When he arrived in the city, He met some annoying people and tried to fight with them until he lost with broken sword. After that, he came to Traville office to give the sword even though the sword is already broken and Traville lent the new sword to D’Artagnan.

Rising Action

D’Artagnan met the three musketeers and they fought with cardinal servants

• The rising action of the story is D’Artagnan met the three musketeers and challenged them to have the duel with him but he realized that they are the three musketeers. In the middle of their conversation, suddenly Cardinal servant came and asked them to give their sword and surrender but the three musketeers and D’Artagnan rejected cardinal servant’s demand. After that they fought each other but at the end of battle the Cardinal decided to give up and the three musketeers with D’Artagnan decided to leave the Carmelite.

Climax

Queen Anne and the Duke Buckingham were found at laundry by Cardinal’s servant.

• The climax of this story is when Duke Buckingham comes to see the Queen Anne at the laundry and it makes the Queen Anne worry about their relationship will be known by the King (her husband). The Queen Anne begs to Duke Buckingham to leave that place very soon. On the other hand Duke Buckingham want something special from Queen Anne as a gift and Queen Anne decides to give her diamond studs. Duke Buckingham promises to Queen Anne that he will come back one year later. Besides that, Milady de Winter inform to the Cardinal about the meeting between Queen Anne and Duke Buckingham, so The Cardinal sent his soldiers in order to catch Queen Anne and Duke Buckingham. In that situstion, suddenly D’Artagnan and the servant with the three musketerrs come to the laundry to save Queen Anne and Duke Buckingham from the soldiers. After the Queen arrived in the palace and meet with the King Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu suggests to the King Louis XIII to hold dance party in order to honor the Queen Anne and Queen Anne must wear the diamond studs that given by the King and that makes the Queen panic.

Falling Action

D’Artganan decided to help the Queen Anne in order to take the diamond studs.

• The Queen Anne became panic and worried because the diamonds studs isn’t with her anymore. She already gave the diamonds studs to Duke Buckingham. Constance has the solution in order to help the Queen Anne, So she asks to her husband to take the diamods studs from Duke Buckingham but her husband rejected Constance’s demand. Then, Constance asking for help to D’Artagnan to take the Queen Anne’s diamonds studs and D’Artagnan decided to accept the request from Constance. So, D’Artagnan went to England to meet Duke Buckingham in order to take the diamonds studs. But in the middle of his way, D’Artagnan and the three musketeers faced the obstacle and fight with Cardinal’s agent and then D’Artagnan and the servant succeed come to England and meet with with Duke Buckingham but unfortunately, two diamond studs was stolen by Milady De Winter. So, Duke Buckingham replace the lost two diamonds with the new one and he give it back to D’Artagnan and D’Artagnan back to Palace in order to give the diamonds studs to the Queen so that she can wear the diamonds studs for dance party.

Resolution

D’Artagnan became a member of the three musketeers.

• After D’Artagnan succeed take the diamond studs for Queen Anne, finally D’Artagnan become the musketeers because the Queen apreciate his effort to return the Queen’s diamonds.

CONFLICT

The conflict from the story “The Three Musketeers” is D’Artagnan fought with many people which are cardinal soldiers in order to take Queen Anne’s diamond studs from Duke Buckingham.

The Kind of conflict is External conflict between Man vs Group

• In this story, D’artgnan fought with many soldier from cardinal in order to take diamond studs from Duke Buckingham

The kind of conflict is Internal conflict between Man vs Mind

• D’artagnan is getting jealous with Constance when she nears with somebody else. 

CHARACTERS

D’Artagnan: The man who wants to be a musketeer with everything that he has. He was a tricky, brave, ambitious and he is also the man who can read.

• Based on the main part or roles in the story is Main/major characters. The story focuses on him. From the first time, the story shows his behavior that want to be a musketeer and finally at the end of the story he become a part of musketeers.
• Based on the personal traits is Round characters because he shows his depth personality in the story and he possess both good and bad traits. He shows that he want to be a musketeer, he try to trust the three musketeers that he is a brave and also soulless musketeers. But, in the first time when he meet his friend’s wife, he directly fall in love. At the end of the story,he return the queens diamonds to the palace successfully and also become a musketeers.
• Based on the possibility to change is a Dynamic character because at the beginning of the story he just want to return the sworn and also to be a musketeers, but in some condition, he event fall in love with a married woman. At the en of the story he become a musketeer and they together when he become true musketeers.
• Based on normative value is Protagonist because the story describes about the good behavior of D’Artagnan. We can see in the story that D’Artagnan shows his power to be musketeer in order to be a musketeer and healso help the queen and the Lord to return the diamonds to the palace by scarifying himself from the servant of the palace.

Athos: One of three musketeers who the oldest than the others. He was like a leader in his group. He is brave, a little bit silly and confidence man.

• Based on the main part or roles in the story is Main/major characters. The story focuses on him also. He was the oldest musketeer than the others, so he became the leader musketeers between them. From the beginning until the end, the story shows his behavior as a musketeer which help the others in every fight.
• Based on the personal traits is Round characters because he shows his depth personality in the story and he possess both good and bad traits. He is already became a musketeer. At the story, he show his braveness to help and protect the other three musketeers.
• Based on the possibility to change is a Dynamic character because at the beginning of the story he was angry to D’Artagnant. D’Artagnant stumble him so that he became angry and challenge D’Artagnant to fight in the Charmelite. When they want to fight, suddenly the cardinals come and want to caught them because making noisy there. The cardinals fight with the musketeers instead, and the cardinals is lose. Since that even, D’Artagnant and the three other musketeer become friend.
• Based on normative value is Protagonist because the story describes about the good behavior of Athos. We can see in the story that Athos shows his power being musketeer and show his heroic in helping the three other musketeers.

Porthos: He is the one of three musketeers which proud of his wealth and physics by dressing clothes that give the impression to woman.

• Based on the main part or roles in the story is Main/major characters. The story focuses on him also. He was the one of three musketeers,and the story shows his behavior as a musketeer which help the others in every fight.
• Based on the personal traits is Round characters because he shows his depth personality in the story and he possess both good and bad traits. At the story, he show his braveness to help and protect the other three musketeers.  
• Based on the possibility to change is a Dynamic character because At the beginning of the story, he is a musketeer which proud of his wealth and clothes created by gold. But at the end, he show his braveness and fight to help and protect the other three musketeers.
• Based on normative value is Protagonist because the story describes about the good behavior of Porthos. We can see in the story that he shows his power being musketeer and show his heroic in helping the three other musketeers.

Aramis: A part of three musketeers which is young, handsome, quiet.

• Based on the main part or roles in the story is Main/major characters. The story focuses on him also which as the one of the musketeers. He was the young and strong musketeer. From the beginning until the end, the story shows his behavior as a musketeer which help the others in every fight.
• Based on the personal traits is Round characters because he shows his depth personality in the story and he possess both good and bad traits. He is already became a musketeer. At the story, he show his braveness to help and protect the other three musketeers.
• Based on the possibility to change is a Dynamic character because at the beginning of the story he was angry to D’Artagnant. D’Artagnant straight him so that he became angry and challenge D’Artagnant to fight in the Charmelite. When they want to fight, suddenly the cardinals come and want to caught them because making noisy there. The cardinals fight with the musketeers instead, and the cardinals is lose. Since that even, D’Artagnant and the three other musketeer become friend.
• Based on normative value is Protagonist because the story describes about the good behavior of Aramis. We can see in the story that Aramis shows his power being musketeer and show his heroic in helping the three other musketeers.

Queen Anne: She is The Queen of French, she was a beautiful lady, who love with Duke.

• Based on the main part or roles in the story is Main/major characters. The story focuses on her problem which is about her relationship with Duke Buckingham secretly because there is conflict between French and England.
• Based on the personal traits is Round characters because she shows his depth personality in the story and she possess both good and bad traits. She is the queen which . At the story, she show his braveness to help and protect the other three musketeers.
• Based on the possibility to change is a Dynamic character because at the beginning of the story he was angry to D’Artagnant. D’Artagnant straight him so that he became angry and challenge D’Artagnant to fight in the Charmelite. When they want to fight, suddenly the cardinals come and want to caught them because making noisy there. The cardinals fight with the musketeers instead, and the cardinals is lose. Since that even, D’Artagnant and the three other musketeer become friend.
• Based on normative value is Protagonist because the story describes about the good behavior of Athos. We can see in the story that Athos shows his power being musketeer and show his heroic in helping the three other musketeers.

Constance: Bonacieux’s wife who work with queen as dress maker and very loyal to Queen and Lord Duke Buckingham.

• Based on the main part or roles in the story is minor characters. The story doesn’t focus on her. She only appear some part of stories 
• Based on the personal traits is Round characters because she shows his depth personality in the story and she possess both good and bad traits. At the beginning in the story, she was loyal with her husband but finally she is falling in love with D’artagnan.
• Based on the possibility to change is a Dynamic character because at the beginning of the story she was loyal with her husband but at the end she loved D’artagnan
• Based on normative value is Protagonist because the story describes about the good behavior of constance.

Milady the Winter: She is a mysterious, beautiful and dangerous lady. She is the antagonist character which as the agent who asked by Cardinal to flirt Duke Buckingham and take the queen’s diamond from the neck of Duke.

Monsieur Bonacieux: He is the Constance’s husband. As the cardinals said that they are friend and take him out from the prison, he regard himself that he have close relation with the cardinals, and became a cardinalist agent.

Monsieur De Traville: The head of king musketeer who is the D’Artagnant father friend. He support D’Artagnant to be the musketeer, he is rival of Cardinal Richelieu for favor.

King Louis XIII: The king of France who always obey with what the Cardinal said.

Cardinal Richelieu: He is the antagonist character. The Cardinal who have bad trick to trapped Duke and Anne. He has two agents to spy Queen Anne and Duke Buckingham.

Duke Buckingham: He is the Prime Minister of England. He was a gentleman, brave, handsome and powerful man, who love Queen Anne.

Rochefort: Cardinal’s private spy and dangereous man and he used the blinders.

Planchet: Manservant of D’Artagnant. He is very intelligent, reliable, and brave. He loyal and stand by D’Artagnant side.

SETTING

Place

• Gascon, Histeu Travelle, Bastille, In a kingdom place of  French

Time

• Morning and night.

Function

• The function of setting of this story as background because there’s no relation between the conflict and setting. The conflict of that story is D’Artagnan want to be musketeers by helping Queen Anne to take the diamond studs to keep the name of The King Louis XIII. So, its mean that the setting in this story just describe where and when the story was happened, there is nothing to do between the setting and the story, because when we change the setting the story still happen in another place.

THEME

The theme of this story is “Do your best and work hard are the key to get your passion”.

The reason why the theme above is because we can see from the story that D’Artagnan wanted to be a musketeer. So that, he do the hard thing to get his passion, even though he should pass many obstacles in order to get his passion. Finally, he got his passion to be a musketeer by his persistence.

SYMBOL

• Diamond Studs : The symbol of the loyalty Queen Anne to Duke and the proof of her love. The kind of symbol is traditional symbol because it is the common property of a society or a culture and also in this story the diamond is the proof of her love to the King (Duke) which means that the diamond is the proof of her loyalty.
• Sword : The brave of the hero and the sign of the confidence for the musketeers. The kind of symbol is origin symbol because it is using based on the context of the work. Sword is the sign of hero which is describe the braveness of the musketeers in order to make them be more confidence.

CONCLUSION

I personally think that this story is interesting because the story serves the combination between action and comedy, so every action of this story make us be curious about what will be happened in the next situation, and also the comedy is very entertained. Beside that, the story appears in our life as we know that someone will do anything in order to get his passion, even though he should work hard and do many effort. For example, what D’artagnant did in order to become a musketeer. He has a big ambition to be a musketeer even though having some obstacles, his mission to return the queen’s diamonds in order to save the name of king is running well

On the other side, This story also show up the problem that appears in reality like the affair between Queen Anne and Duke Buckingham. Although Queen Anne is a married woman, she still have feeling with another man. So from the illustration, we can catch that this situation also happened in the real life.