Alexandre Dumas" novel "The Three Musketeers" remains extremely exciting and funny. This novel keeps the reader on the edge the entire time, wondering what will happen next. The novel follows four men that remain insupportable: D"Artagna, Athos, Porthos and Aramis in their heroic acts, D"Artagnan's love interests and the continues scandals between the Queen, King and Duke of Buckingham. The end of this novel is the best part. It leaves the reader jaw dropped in amazement.
The most important characters are the four best friends: D"Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis. It has become apparent that D"Artagnan is the central character of the novel, Dumas has portrayed the reader that not only is D"Artagnan still a brave, noble, intelligent and ambitious young man. But is also very crafty and romantic. He is driven by love, and tends to often find himself in love with more than one person at a time. This has been a steady flaw of D"Artagnans from the very beginning of the novel, to the very end. Throughout the novel D"Artagnan turns to Athos for guidance. Athos is the most important of the three musketeers. He is also a father figure to D"Artagnan. This may be because he is also the oldest of his comrades. However He is still young at heart and loves being a musketeer. This becomes more evident in the last half of the novel. Aramis on the other hand, is constantly announcing he is only temporarily in the musketeers, and that any day now he will r!.
eturn to the church to pursue his true calling. By the end of the novel the reader can almost predict what he will say next. This makes Aramis a predictable character, however the reader can count of the level-minded advice of Aramis to call reason to a situation. Aramis has a mysterious mistress; her name is Madame de Chevreuse. He tries to keep her existence and identity hidden from his friends however by the end of the novel all four men know the truth.