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[[File:Planet_Mode(edited).png|thumb|left|200px]] For many who read The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas’ story is likely just an amusing tale of adventure and swordplay, as the gallant d’Artagnan and his Musketeer friends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis journey throughout 17th-century France to foil the plots of Cardinal Richelieu and his associates the Comte de Rochefort and Lady de Winter. Yet within each musketeer lies a deeper sub-plot, as all three are caught up not only in their adventures together but their own personal quests.

Athos’ story is the most mysterious but ironically enough, the most relevant to the main plot of the book. In Chapter 7 Dumas describes him as very quiet, so quiet in fact that “his silence mad almost an old man of him” and that his lackey Grimaud has learned to “obey him upon a simple gesture or upon a simple movement of the lips.” When the other musketeers bring up women his only statements are “bitter words and misanthropic remarks.” These actions are directly resulting from his having believed his ex-wife, the Lady de Winter, to be dead after he hung her upon discovering her incriminating Fleur-De-Lis brand. Even several years afterwards, Athos is still deeply remorseful over the scandal and tries to rid himself of the pain and sadness he bears. He drinks profusely to this end. When he recounts his backstory to d’Artagnan in Chapter 27, at the end of the tale upon d’Artagnan’s comment, “ ‘Heavens, Athos, a murder?’ ” Athos replies, “ ‘No less…but methinks I need wine!’ ” This is also after a period of “about twelve days,” according to d’Artagnan, during which Athos has drunk by his own reckoning “a hundred and fifty bottles” of wine in the cellar of the inn where he barricaded himself in after being accused of forgery by the innkeeper. That comes out to an average of twelve and a half bottles of wine a day, about one bottle every two hours. Such heavy drinking could indicate that he has drunk so much to mask his pain that now he is fully dependant on it. He also hides his identity as the Comte de la Fere, even from his friends, so that not even they can know of his past. When he is forced to reveal his name to one of Lord de Winter’s seconds, he says he will have to kill the Englishman “because I am believed to be dead, and have reasons for wishing nobody to know I am living.” He abstains from socially interacting with women as to not have a repeat of the same tragedy. In Dumas’ aforementioned description of him, it is said that “no one knew whether he had ever had a mistress.” Athos wants nothing more than to be left alone so that he can cope with his existing grief and create no more of it anew.

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-[[File:Planet_Mode(edited).png|thumb|left|200px]] For many who read The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas’ story is likely just an amusing tale of adventure and swordplay, as the gallant d’Artagnan and his Musketeer friends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis journey throughout 17th-century France to foil the plots of Cardinal Richelieu and his associates the Comte de Rochefort and Lady de Winter. Yet within each musketeer lies a deeper sub-plot, as all three are caught up not only in their adventures together but their own personal quests.
-Athos’ story is the most mysterious but ironically enough, the most relevant to the main plot of the book. In Chapter 7 Dumas describes him as very quiet, so quiet in fact that “his silence mad almost an old man of him” and that his lackey Grimaud has learned to “obey him upon a simple gesture or upon a simple movement of the lips.” When the other musketeers bring up women his only statements are “bitter words and misanthropic remarks.” These actions are directly resulting from his having believed his ex-wife, the Lady de Winter, to be dead after he hung her upon discovering her incriminating Fleur-De-Lis brand. Even several years afterwards, Athos is still deeply remorseful over the scandal and tries to rid himself of the pain and sadness he bears. He drinks profusely to this end. When he recounts his backstory to d’Artagnan in Chapter 27,  at the end of the tale upon d’Artagnan’s comment, “ ‘Heavens, Athos, a murder?’ ” Athos replies, “ ‘No less…but methinks I need wine!’ ” This is also after a period of “about twelve days,” according to d’Artagnan, during which Athos has drunk by his own reckoning “a hundred and fifty bottles” of wine in the cellar of the inn where he barricaded himself in after being accused of forgery by the innkeeper. That comes out to an average of twelve and a half bottles of wine a day, about one bottle every two hours. Such heavy drinking could indicate that he has drunk so much to mask his pain that now he is fully dependant on it. He also hides his identity as the Comte de la Fere, even from his friends, so that not even they can know of his past. When he is forced to reveal his name to one of Lord de Winter’s seconds, he says he will have to kill the Englishman “because I am believed to be dead, and have reasons for wishing nobody to know I am living.” He abstains from socially interacting with women as to not have a repeat of the same tragedy. In Dumas’ aforementioned description of him, it is said that “no one knew whether he had ever had a mistress.” Athos wants nothing more than to be left alone so that he can cope with his existing grief and create no more of it anew.
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