Trying to write a summary. "Three Musketeers" - briefly about the voluminous novel

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

What, you haven't read The Three Musketeers? And do not want to waste time reading such a thick book? Gentlemen, you are wasting a lot of fun.

The clash of swords, desperate duels, horse races, chases, deceit and love, friendship and fidelity - this is the cocktail that attracts more than one generation of readers to the immortal work of Monsieur Dumas père. The king's noble musketeers and the cardinal's vile guardsmen. The gullible king and the insidious Cardinal Richelieu, the beautiful Anna of Austria and the treacherous Milady Winter … By the way, most people who read not a summary at all - The Three Musketeers in its entirety - have long and firmly forgotten that milady is not a name at all, but a title, and so they call this insidious and cruel seductress - Milady, with a capital letter. This name has become common, and if Milady is mentioned somewhere, then it immediately becomes clear to everyone that we are talking about the wife of the noble Athos.

But we digress. Here, in fact, we are not restoring the biographies and names of the characters in the novel, but an attempt to present a summary.

"Three Musketeers", meaning, of course, the novel itself, begins in much the same way as the famous Soviet musical film. Young Mr. d'Artagnan appears on the streets of the little-known town of Meng outside of France. In his pocket he has a letter of recommendation to the captain of the royal musketeers - Mr. de Treville and fifteen coins. He sits astride an elderly gelding of unusual color. This yellowish-red color of the horse was the cause of the first brawl in which our Gascon fell. Further these fights will not be counted, since the character of M. d'Artagnan and the customs of that time greatly contributed to participation in many duels. But if you dwell on each fight in detail, you will get just a literal retelling of the novel, and not at all its summary.

The "Three Musketeers" Dumas père is often accused of inaccurate adherence to historical realities, but no one seriously tries to learn history from adventure novels or study astronomy and physics from science fiction works. The key figures of the novel have real prototypes, nothing more. They are the decoration of the dish, not its main content.

But we've gone aside again. We are not trying to criticize the novel, but we are writing it, the novel "The Three Musketeers", a summary.

Where did we stop? Oh, yes - d'Artagnan in Mengue meets Milady and Rochefort, on the orders of Lady Winter they beat him painfully and take away the letter. Without a recommendation from his father, Monsieur de Trevillerefuses to immediately give him the coveted blue cloak and enroll him in an elite regiment, and our hero leaves the musketeer captain's waiting room, armed only with the latter's vague promise to enlist him in the company, but only after performing a couple of feats.

Wishing to get closer to the celestials, he does not really notice where he is going and what his long tongue is talking about, and suddenly finds himself involved in three duels in a row at once, and with the musketeers at that. Fate was pleased to prevent a fight with Athos, Porthos and Aramis, but she generously sent a whole company of the cardinal's guards to the place of the duel at once. The Musketeers, immediately forgetting that they wanted to fight the Gascon, enter the battle with the guards. Our hero, too, cannot keep the blade in the sheath and rushes to the aid of his former opponents. The Musketeers and d'Artagnan naturally win. And further events follow precisely from this first large-scale battle of the Gascon.

We will not describe further events in detail, since the size of the article does not allow it, we will limit ourselves to writing a very brief content. The Three Musketeers and their new comrade find themselves embroiled in many court and political intrigues. Monsieur d'Artagnan falls in love with a married woman and, for the sake of her beautiful eyes, abandons the love claims of Richelieu himself. In this he is willingly helped by his three friends. Along the way, the good name of Queen Anne is restored, but d'Artagnan's beloved and the English nobleman Duke of Buckingham die. But our young adventurer becomes a musketeer. Now we can start talking aboutthe novel needs to be renamed, since there are four musketeers, but we still describe a brief summary … three musketeers, four musketeers - it’s not so important what numeral is in the title, besides, the late Monsieur Dumas père can’t be convinced anyway.

Our desperate foursome decides to restore justice and punish the main culprit in the death of Constance, beloved by d'Artagnan, and the English duke respected by him. Who do you think they appointed last? Not Richelieu, who started all this intrigue, and not the queen, because of whose love this story was brewed in Buckingham, but the direct executor of Richelieu's will - Milady.

Having cut off the last head, our heroes decide that their mission is completed, and now they can just go to war without filling their heads with court intrigues. Richelieu pretended that it should have been so according to his idea, and even granted them one patent for an officer's rank for four. Which of them should begin to command, our friends must decide for themselves. Whom did they choose by open voting? That's right - d'Artagnan. End.