The Count Of Monte Cristo Revenge Essay — страница 2

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took revenge on Fernand Mondego by causing his wife Merc?des and son Albert to leave home. To do this, the Count introduced Albert to Danglars’s daughter. The couple became engaged. A few days before the wedding was to take place, Danglars asked the Count for information about Fernand. The Count told him to send a letter to where Fernand worked as guard for the Ali Pasha. When Danglars received a reply to his letter, the news spread quickly that Fernand was a traitor and let the enemy become victorious. The Pasha entrusted Fernand with his wife and daughter. Fernand sold them indirectly to the Count. The main point of this punishment was to make Merc?des and Albert leave Fernand. This punishment relates to Fernand’s ambitions because the Count thought about how back in

Marseilles Fernand took away his family (Merc?des and his father). In getting his revenge, the Count causes Fernand to lose his family. Villefort was a loyalist, His father was a Bonapartist. He was always trying to get the favor of the King so that he could get an even higher position. One way to accomplish this task was to find Bonapartists and put them in jail. Villefort sent the Count to jail only because the latter knew that Villefort’s father was a Bonapartist. When he sent the Count to prison he thought he was covering up his secret about his father for good by burying the Count in the Ch? teau d’If. Then the Count reappeared. In his revenge toward Villefort, the Count uncovered a secret which Villefort thought was literally buried many years ago. The Count discovered

the secret of an illegitimate child which had been born of a union between Villefort and Madame Danglars. Villefort had buried the child alive, but someone had rescued him. The Count of Monte Cristo disgraced Villefort by revealing the secret of his illegitimate child to the public. This method of revenge was symbolic. Villefort thought he had buried the disgrace of his dead son forever. He also thought he had “buried” the secret of his father, the Bonapartist, by sending Edmond Dantes, the one who knew his secret, to the Ch?teau d’If. Edmond came back from the dead as did Villefort’s son. We see from this story that it is not wise to take revenge. It is up to G- d to decide what each person deserves. In our story, a man named Edmond Dantes thought it wise to take revenge

on his enemies. He took revenge on each person in a way that related to the way they originally conspired against him. However, at the end, instead of feeling good about himself, he felt confused. On the one hand he got back at his enemies, but on the other hand, he lost the affection of Merc?des, whom he loved. He then recognized that if a person does take revenge into his own hands, G-d now has a way of punishing him. Edmond Dantes ruined everyone who hurt him and in the process, he ruined himself. 34a