What does the word felicity mean in this context

Felicity can mean happiness; but in the case of the passage in “The Count of Monte Cristo” where the man bowed in prayer then became transformed from “convulsive(ly)” to becoming “calmer and more happy,” the more appropriate meaning would be pleasure and luck or blessedness. It came as some kind of a realization that he has been fortunate after all.

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get thee back into the tempest and the night's plutonian shore

on the pallid bust of pallas just above my chamber door

the african society basically suffered the consequences of colonization and apartheid directly attacking the black people, first, during the colonialism and its main idea which which "white people" had better rights, affecting   them principally in the right to establish black people in their territories, access to quality education and health services and took away any civil right even to the black people to feel they have the same opportunities as the settlers.