He is the only one of the four friends that remains in the Army: Athos retires to his estates, Porthos marries a rich widow and establishes himself somewhere in the countryside, and Aramis becomes a priest. Their lives, however, would cross once again, in Twenty Years After. Dumas brings out the inherited social character traits and values of different communities and nationalities.
D'Artangan is a pure Gascon--hot heated, courageous, generous, clever and quick. Mazarin is a clever, deceitful crafty Italian. Apart from his social inheritance, individually D'Artangan is good.
He is a positive personality that seeks positive values such as friendship, loyalty, courage, goodwill. His actions serve to preserve these values. His goodness is shown in his willingness to delay the duel with injured Athos, his siding with the three musketeers against the Cardinal's men, his meeting a good-hearted mentor in Treville, his willingness to risk his life to save Buckingham, which Athos prevents him from doing, and many small acts of interference to help a stranger.
It is D'Artangan that gives strength and cohesion to the friiendship of the other three. Before that, they had suffered numerous defeats and were unknown. As soon as he comes, they are ushered into an audience with the king. He is the spark of life that energizes the four. Courage and fearlessness are the dominant values of the soldier. The musketeers are admired and respected even by their enemies for these traits. The absence of fear protects them.
Personal friendship is the one value that stands out in absolute relief against the relativity of everything else. For the four, friendship is a high ideal to be preserved at all cost.
Each of the heroes serves very limited ideals within the confines of the present social values and their personal vaues of friendship:. The four show a great generosity and bravado like freedom from the money value in their youth. In middle age they all seem to succumb to it in some measure, but always with a generosity that contrasts with the miserliness of Mazarin and Bonacieux. D'Artangan's initial meeting with Rochefort and Milady before even reaching Paris foreshadows what is to come.
When she destroys the beautiful Madame Bonacieux, her own veil of beauty that concelas and evil, ugly nature is torn away and she is killed. Until then her beauty protects her. Neither D'Artangan nor Athos were able to slay when they had the chance. Even till the end, D'Artangan hesitates and Athos has to insist.
Athos begins to emerge from his melancholy only when D'Artangan recovers the ring Athos had once given to Milady and it is sold. Rochefort steal the appointment letter meant for Treville and gives it to the Cardinal.
Later it is the Cardinal that makes D'Artangan a musketeer and promotes him as lieutenant. The Count must be a positive character in a negative position. For it is he that first alerts D about Milady during their initial encounter.
Later in trying to chase the Count in Paris, D runs into and enrages the three Musketeers which is the beginning of their friendship. The Count also drops the paper on which Milady has written the name of their final meeting place where finally the Musketeers catch and execute her. The Count also kidnaps Madame Bonacieux who later twice escapes him; the first time to meet D and fall in love which wouldn't have happened otherwise and as a result D plays a pivotal role in recovering the Queen's diamonds given to Buckingham.
Thus after 3 duels, there is sanction for D's final friendship with the Count. Rochefort has a positive nature. In spite of his acts, all he does helps D'Artangan. He makes D'Artangan aware of Milady and later drops the paper that reveals her final hiding place. In chasing Rochefort, D'Artangan runs into and befriends the musketeers. He kidnaps Madame Bonacieux twice but both times she escapes. This leads to her meeting with D'Artangan and his commission to help the queen recover her diamonds, which makes him a hero.
His work may be for the good of the country, but he acts through personal motives and negative character. Therefore he attracts to him people like Rochefort and Milady. Artagnan D is confronted with the Cardinal's intriguers in the very first leg of his journey from home to Paris to join the musketeers when he quarrels with Count Rochefort and sees the mysterious evil Milady.
The Count steals his father's letter to Treville requesting a place for D in the king's guard. Later it is the Cardinal himself the Count's boss who appoints D a musketeer and finally a lieutenant.
When the Cardinal does offer him a lieutenantship it is in exchange for the Cardinal"s letter of authority which Athos stole from Milady and the Count is there to witness his appointment the Count brings D to the Cardinal. D'Artangan's naive heroism leads to being beaten by Rochfort's men. Later the same trait leads him to unnecessarily provoke the bitter hostility of evil Milady. The 3 Musketeers rose to fame only after D'Artagnan joined them.
Just prior to that they were defeated in a brawl with the Cardinal's men and Athos was wounded. After D'Artagnan joined them, they rose from success to greater success. D'Artagnan is courageous, noble, intelligent, innocent, with enormous youthful energy. Within a few days of his arrival in Paris, D'Artagnan has an audience with the king.
Within a few weeks he is honored by the Queen. She serves an ungrateful queen and the vain selfishness of Buckingham, was married to a treacherous husband why did she marry such an old man? D'Artangan, her lover, was attracted to Milady, despite what he knew of her, deeply humiliated her without need in her bedroom, and interferred with her romantic interest in Des Wardes, making her vow to ruin D'Artangan and his own romance--which she does.
Therefore, D'Artangan cannot save her. It is only because Milady killed her, that Milady is discovered and herself killed. Out of Madame Bonacieux's love for D'Artangan, she subconsciously sacrificed herself so that he might live. Richilieu's Purse: Richilieu gives a purse to Bonacieux to serve him. His wife steals it and gives it to D'Artangan to carry out the mission of saving the queen from the cardinal's plot to expose her.
For stealing the money of her miserly husband, she incurs his wrath and he betrays her and helps with her kidnapping. The cardinal's money is used against him because he gives it to a weak, undeserving, treacherous man. But that same money refuses to serve the cardinal's enemies. Three of the musketeers get waylaid in carrying it. D'Artangan hardly uses it at all. In fact, the prize of 4 horses that D'Artangan gains from the Duke for his service, D'Artangan is forced to spend to extricate his friends from trouble.
So they do real service and gain no personal benefit from it. Queen Anne's ring: Earned by D'Artangan in service of Anne, he gets the ring and then spends it again in service of the Duke. Years later it comes back to him for further service.
Diamond studs: Buckingham forces Anne to give him a gift and later she is forced to ask for it back. He is able to keep only the empty box, symbol of the fact that he never gets Anne whom he seeks.
The box too comes back to Anne with the Duke's murder weapon in it, because his unsanctioned love of Anne is in fact the cause of his death.
Apart from the Duke's vanity, Anne is undeserving of that affection and therefore he dies in trying to offer it to her. Athos' Ring: Milady obtained Athos' family ring by falsely representing herself and becoming his wife. Athos is haunted for years by the memory of this woman he thought he had killed. Later D regains Athos' ring by another fraud when he impersonates Comte de Wardes in Milady's bedroom.
From that moment on the haunting spell begins to lift from Athos and he regains his old strength and character. The ring is sold. From the time D'Artagnan first sees her, milady's life is on the decline though her evil power continues to express. She succeeds in stealing the diamonds from Buckingham, but the plot fails when D'Artagnan brings replacements to the Queen and thereby gains her esteem.
When she attempts to seduce De Wardes and kill her brother-in-law, she is instead seduced by D'Artagnan and exposed to him and Athos. When she asks the Cardinal for an execution order to kill D'Artagnan , Athos steals it from her, and later uses it for her execution. Going to kill Buckingham she is exposed and imprisoned for the first time. Though she escapes and succeeds in her mission, she brings down on her the pursuit that finally costs her her life.
The poisoning of Constance Bonacieux is her last evil act which alerts the Musketeers to her identity and brings on her death. The one great exception to this is Lady de Winter.
Courtilz's "Milady" is an entirely private individual, one of the Queen's exiled ladies-in-waiting, with whom his d'Artagnan does indeed have an unscrupulous affair. But she has nothing to do with the Cardinal; certain faux-memoirs that Dumas used provided the detail of a lady "Clarick" who is associated with the theft of the diamond brooch from Buckingham that Dumas relates. Dumas fuses these elements, then, and creates an entirely fictitious character with his Milady.
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