Montgomery Montgomery

professor Montgomery Montgomery is a character of fiction of the series of the Désastreuses Adventures of the Orphans Baudelaire. Second tutor of Baudelaire, it appears in volume II heading the Laboratory with the snakes .

Identity

Montgomery Montgomery, known as “ Uncle Monty ”, is a specialist as regards Herpétologie. Odd, attentive and very enjoué, this small man red-faced man accommodates the Baudelaire orphans under his roof with great pleasure.

Its villa is located in full shift (the city nearest being Morfonds) and one reaches it by taking the road of Pouillasses. An underpass apparently connects it to the site of the house of the Beauxdraps family.

Installation external and interior decoration of this residence are based on the topic of the Serpent S, since the hedges cut with their image decorating his entry to the rich greenhouse of an incredible collection of reptiles which constitutes the showpiece of it. One indeed finds in the latter of the specimens of all the species, sometimes unknown of the scientific world, that the scientist captured at the time of his voyages and installed within his laboratory in order to study the characteristics of them.

The discovery whose Uncle Monty is more to trust is that of the Death-Sure Viper of Bengal (an animal ever foreseen hitherto). Its name has what to worry the visitors but the professor gave it to this completely inoffensive snake with an only aim of causing some frights with the other members of the Company of Herpétologie (result of a small personal revenge, colleagues of Montgomery Montgomery readily striping this last in connection with its curious patronym).

Professor Montgomery has all qualities of an excellent tutor but the things are spoiled with the arrival of Stéphano, its new assitant (which is not other than the count Olaf under an adequate disguise). The uncle Monty really does not believe in the danger of which informed it its small protected and persists in its error until being loosely assassinated by the scélérat with which it opened its door.

Bonds with V.D.C.

Professor Montgomery maintains an obvious bond with the secret society V.D.C. of which he obviously was member, on the noble side of the Schisme. Besides the tamed reptiles form part of the animals employed by the organization (from which they protect in particular the sanctuaries) but since the death of its discoverer, the Death-Sure Viper is as for it untraceable. Alas for him, the scientist does not know sufficiently the code Sebald (employed by V.D.C. ) which would have enabled him to uncover its assistant thanks to the message hidden contained in a film that it went to see with the children.

References

In his villa, the uncle Monty raises many species of snakes among which the python has obviously all its place. The bringing together of the two words noted here in italics constitutes a homage to the Monty Python, celebrates troop of English humorists.

It is also possible that there exists a bond between the second tutor of Baudelaire and Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of the novel Anne… the house with the green pinions and of its two continuations.

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