Writers Name :

• Anthony Hope

 You name and grade :

• my name , Grade :

          Fedaa Knaneh 

          11 (5) 

  Main characters :

– The King

Rudolph V of Ruritania is the king-to-be of the nation of Ruritania. He is awaiting coronation and is engaged to be married, but on the eve of the ceremony to crown him king, he is drugged and kidnapped in an effort to usurp his throne.

– Michael

A duke and the younger half-brother of the king, Michael is the mastermind behind the plot to overthrow the king. He wants the throne for himself and takes steps to ensure his brother is out of the picture by kidnapping him and locking him away in the distant town of Zenda.

– Antoinette de Mauban

Antoinette is the duke’s mistress. She knows of the plot to overthrow the king but does not wish it to happen; she stirs a plot of her own to prevent Michael from being crowned king.

– Count Rupert of Hentzau

Rupert is a handsome young count and accomplice in the plot to overthrow the king. He is deceptive and cares for no authority; thus, his motives are suspect throughout the story.

– Colonels Sapt and Fritz von Tarlenheim .

The colonels are loyal supporters of the king. When he goes missing, they do everything in their power to ensure he is returned safe and becomes king. They seek to uncover and foil the plot against Rudolph.

– Rudolf Rassendyll

King Rudolph’s cousin from England, Rudolf, comes to visit during the events, and his likeness to his cousin is uncanny. He is used as a copy of his cousin to receive the crown and ensure that the coronation can proceed. He falls in love with the king’s fiancée.

– Princess Flavia

The king’s betrothed, Princess Flavia, falls for Rudolf Rassendyll , but the two have to break their affair when the king returns from imprisonment and assumes his throne.

  Setting :

the book is an expression of British elitism. Written at the height of the British Empire, the book can be seen as a kind of fable of British exceptionalism and an argument against self-rule and democracy that was gathering force in many parts of the Empire.

The Prisoner of Zenda is a novel about the insurrection attempt by rulers in the small fictional country of Ruritania in the late 1800s .

– Plot( Sequence of events) : 

On the eve of the celebration day for the coronation of the King of Mauritania Rudolph, he is drugged under the guidance of his brother Prince Michael in order to be unable to perform and attend the coronation ceremony and thus is chosen as the king instead of him, where Rudolph was kidnapped after he lost his consciousness and was imprisoned in a castle in a small town called Zenda, but my collaborators Rudolph was ready to complete the crowning ceremony, whatever the circumstances, so two of Rudolph’s agents and persuaded to place the king in the coronation ceremony an English visitor named Rudolph Rasndel had met by chance Rudolph the king in the past and a dialogue took place between them where they realized that they were cousins ​​far away, but what Raised eyebrows It is the extent of the similarity of the two and how they look like twins, and only the three, that is, the English visitor Rasendel and the assistants of Rudolph the king, knew of the plan, then things complicate and the atmosphere prevails and the plots and counter plots between the protagonists of the story, and Rasendel falls in love with Rudolph the king’s fiancée, but he refrains from He told him his truth and overpowered his loyalty to the imprisoned king, as he stormed the castle in which the king was imprisoned and succeeded in saving him to restore the king Rudolph the reins of his throne, but the lovers Rudolf Rasndel and the king’s fiancée eventually separated.

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– Main idea:

A Zinda prisoner revolves around a king who is in great danger and meets a friend who helps him in his darkest time. A group leader, Duke Michael, also known as Black Michael, is trying to kill the King of Mauritania, King Rudolph V. The Duke wants to rule the kingdom and plots with his men to kill the king.

my opinion :

The novel was a very beautifully , And  I fell into a dream that I was married to the king and lived in the fort of Zanda, and I was deceived for days with my love in the woods of the forest … in addition , When I read this Novel I was so excited about the sequence of events ..

This is what I think about how to give a presentation with a great feeling .

20 important chunks from the story :

• Honesty –  الأمانة أو الإخلاص .
• Responsibility – المسئولية  .

• Loyalty – الولاء   .

• – Honour – الشرف أو الكرامة .

• a strong swordsman – مبارزاً او قوياً بالسيف .
• sister-in-law : زوجة الأخ .

• embassy – السفارة .

• descendants – أحفاد .

• You’re right – معكما حق .

• hunting lodge – كوخ الصيد .
• drawbridge – جسر متحرك .

•  moat – خندق ماني .

• dressed for hunting – بدا قوي البنية .

• like identical twins-  وكأنه توأم متطابق .

• unemployed – عاطل .
• blame – لوم .
• boasted – تباهى .
• justify – برر .
•  accusation   – اتهام  .
• planned for that joyous – المخطط لهذا الفرح .