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The Count Of Monte Cristo - A Classic Rhapsody Of Vengeance
(Alexandre Dumas)

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??I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper, than of a sword or pistol.?? This is what a drunken Caderousse says, as a crime is conspired, with feigned innocence by a conniving Danglars. The events that follow make the Count of Monte Cristo one of the best revenge epics ever narrated, a story of innocence destroyed that makes the protagonist Edmond Dantes seek a turbulent vengeance, that towards the end even incites his almost cold ? blooded conscience.
Summarizing the story is simple ? set in the time of conflict between the Royalists and the Bonapartists, Edmond Dantes, a sailor of the ship Pharaon lands on Marseilles just burying his Captain and a letter from the island of Elba. The island of Elba is where Napolean Bonaparte has taken refuge, plotting a comeback and this is where Dantes stops to carry out his dead captain?s last wishes. The only other person aware of this is Danglars, his supercargo, who spies on him. Now Dantes is at a period in life anyone would cherish, he is nineteen, calm, innocent, energetic and ambitious and all his dreams are about to come true. He is going to become captain of his ship and marry the beautiful Mercedes, love of his life. He has a father whom he is devoted to and an owner M. Morrel (of the ship) who is benevolent of him. Before these dreams are realized events turn around as he is cast into a dungeon in the dreaded Chateau d? If, a prison island from which there is no escape. Here Dantes? situation constantly exacerbates, mentally and physically for he doesn?t even know why he is incarcerated. He is completely unaware of his enemies, a jealous Danglars, his supercargo who wants to be captain, a jealous Fernand Mondego who is in love with Mercedes and is constantly refused by her. There is also the assistant district attorney, a M. Villefort who actually passes the sentence for his own selfish reasons (the narrator here quotes ?In this case he was not a judge, but the executioner.? Dantes loses hope, all his cries and prayers to God seem vain and he contemplates suicide. Then there is a dramatic turn of events again; he hears a sound in his dungeon ? one of a prisoner in a fellow cell digging. His hopes renewed, he finds a way to tunnel his way through too. Months of digging and he joins the other tunnel, meeting prisoner the Abbe Faria, a wise priest rumored mad whom with he bonds. The Abbe imparts to an almost illiterate Dantes vast knowledge of the world, from history to languages, logic to chemistry. Alongside they both make plans of escape. The Abbe also makes him realize his conspirers. Dantes pledges revenge. After fourteen long almost eternal years a much wiser Dantes escapes, a result of his quick thinking making use of the Abbe?s death due to apoplexy (of which he is very remorseful; they planned to escape together and had a father ? son relationship). Now he is thirty ? three, pale as sheet, gaunt and unrecognizable even to his self because of years in a dark, dark dungeon. And also with the knowledge of an immense treasure, passed on to him by Abbe Faria, to be found on the island of Monte Cristo. Soon a mysterious Count appears, fashioned ?the Count of Monte Cristo? rich as rich could be, erudite, and respected. He comes to know his father dies of starvation and his beloved eloped to his enemy and conspirer Mondego, and also all his enemies are rich and prosperous ? Danglars, Mondego and Villefort. This ensues with revenge unleashed, impeccably planned by Dantes. His character the Count is fascinating, even mythical, and Dumas laces him with Christian overtones, often quoting the Old Testament. With the intellectual and material means provided to him by Abbe Faria, his new identity seeks justice. Not just vengeance, but also becomes a savior to Morrel and his family who was the only person who appealed and pleaded for Dantes? release and tried to help his father through lean times.
Overall, the Count of Monte Cristo is riveting, and much deserved of its ?classic? status. In the words of Dumas as Dantes himself defines his story, it is one ? ??which would almost make us doubt the goodness of Providence, if that Providence did not afterwards reveal itself by proving that all is but a means of conducting to an end.??



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