Setting and characters the three Musketeers

Setting the three Musketeers

 17th century France, the long journey to England, and some heavy-duty Gothic backdrops

 For the most part, the micro-settings of The Three Musketeers are in various apartments around Paris or inns in the countryside of France.

 In the Harbor, ship. The Tuesday midnight to sent the letter.

 In the kingdom of France.

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Characters and characterization the three Musketeers
 D'Artagnan
• The main character of the novel, d’Artagnan was raised in the French province of Gascony, an area known for its courageous and brave men.
• He is brave, noble, ambitious, crafty, intelligent, honesty and integrity and also friendly to the three Musketeer.
• His loyalty to both the king and the cardinal, and his expert swordsmanship. By the end of the novel, d’Artagnan’s dream of becoming a member of the King’s Musketeers is fulfilled, and he is given a commission in the company.
 Planchet
• PLanchet is d’Artagnan’s servant.
• He is ultimately the sharpest of the servants.
• Planchet is prudent, but still exhibits moments of great courage and ingenuity.
 Athos
• The most important in the three Musketeers.
• Athos is wise man and become a father figure to d'Artagnan.
• He is --intellect, appearance, bravery, swordsmanship--yet he is tortured by a deep melancholy, the source of which no one knows.

 Grimaud
• Grimaud is Athos’s servant. His master is mannerly and rather reticent.
• He is A dignified silence passes between them, and thus Grimaud upholds the quiet nobility of his master.

 Aramis
• He passes his time as a musketeer.
• Aramis will enter the priesthood. Being brought up in a monastery it was expect of him to become a Priest.
• A young Musketeer, one of the great Three.
• Aramis is a handsome young man, quiet and somewhat foppish. He constantly protests.
• Aramis has a mysterious mistress, Madame de Chevreuse, a high noblewoman, whose existence and identity he tries to keep from his friends.

 Bazin
• Bazin is Aramis’s servant. He has religious life and faithfull.
• His utmost desire is to be the servant of a high church official.

 Porthos
• The most secular of the three musketeers.
• Porthos is extremely proud of his worldly good looks and his fine physique.
• He enjoys good food and comfortable surroundings.
• Porthos, the third of the Three Musketeers, is loud, brash, and self-important.

 Mousqueton
• Mousqueton is Porthos’s servant.
• Like his master, Mousqueton is knowledgeable about secular things.
• Enjoy his finer things

 Monsieur de Treville
• de Treville is the captain of the King’s Musketeers and an old friend of d’Artagnan’s fa.
• He also acts as d’Artagnan’s special advisor.
• Monsieur de Treville is an honorable and distinguished gentleman, and close friend to the King.
• Fatherish. He treats all his Musketeers as his sons

 Monsieur Bonacieux
• He is d’Artagnan’s immoral landlord.
• Irresponsible man and devil
• He assists in the kidnapping of his own wife.

 Constance Bonacieux
• She is Bonacieux's wife who is more than thirty years younger than her husband.
• She loves d’Artagnan and he loves her too
• she has become the queen’s linen maid,
• She is very loyal to the queen.
 Lady de Winter.
• "Milady"She represents the essence of evil in the novel.
• She is d’Artagnan’s main adversary and is bent on revenge.
• At first, d’Artagnan is deeply attracted to her physical beauty and charm even after discovering her plot to kill him.
• She acts as the cardinal’s personal spy and is responsible for the deaths of
(1) a young priest;
(2) the duke of Buckingham;
(3) de Winter’s assistant, John Felton;
(4) Constance Bonacieux; and
(5) she is probably responsible for her husband, de Winter’s, death.
• In all truth, she is responsible for the deaths of countless insignificant people who got in the way of her conspiracies.
• Milady is finally tracked down by d’Artagnan. the three musketeers, and her brother-in-law, where she is tried and beheaded for her terrible crimes.

 Lord de WinterLady de Winter’s brother-in-law.
• He suspects that Milady killed his brother in order to inherit vast family properties.

 King Louis XIII The king of France.
• He is not a very strong or effective king. Dependent and weak character in taking decision.
• Dominated by his advisor
• He despises Cardinal Richelieu but is nevertheless dependant on this powerful man.

 Queen Anne, or Anne of AustriaThe
• Queen is romantically involved with the duke of Buckingham
• She is a powerful politician in England.
• Anne is faithful and loyal to her husband, the weak and incapable king of France.

 Cardinal Richelieu.
• He is the antagonist of the novel.
• The Cardinal was one of the most powerful diplomats of his time.
• He is controlling both individual people and nations with his clever schemes.
• Cardinal is presented as the adversary to the queen. Richelieu has spies throughout the country, constantly monitoring the activities of the musketeers even though he clearly respects their bravery and courage.
• The Cardinal espessially respects d’Artagnan, to whom he makes a lieutenant.
• He is furiously self-absorbed, but also an extremely effective leader of the state
• Richelieu works hard to maintain the reputation and power of the king, since this is the stock on which his own status is based.
 George Villiers, duke of Buckingham
• Buckingham is the perfect English gentleman, handsome, witty, brave, wealthy, and powerful.
• Next to the King of England The Duke is much like the cardinal, he controls England like the Cardinal controls France.
• These two men once strived for the love of Queen Anne, but ever since the duke won, the two have been enemies—in terms of politics and love.
• Buckingham is reputed to be the most handsome, powerful, wealthy, and influencial man in Europe.
• He is a Favorite and Minister of War for King Charles I of England.

 John Felton.
• Felton is a protestant and crazed puritan whom Milady is able to manipulate for her own good.
• Felton is Milady’s instrument whereby she can bring about the duke’s death.
• A British naval officer

 Count de Rochefort, “The Man from Meung”
• Count de Rochefort is a personal representative of the cardinal
• He is also d’Artagnan’s nemesis.
• He is the man who steals d’Artagnan’s introduction to Treville while d’Artagnan is on his way to Paris, also Rochefort appears many times in unnexpected settings.
• Rochefort is the man who was twice ordered to capture Constance Bonacieux, also he is the man who tries to arrest d’Artagnan for the cardinal, who later orders the two men to become friend