The Count Of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo, written by Alexander Dumas in 1844, translated from French is an adventurous escape to the mysterious cell of the unfortunate, young, and lost soul, Edmond Dantes, and his borderline demented mate, the Abbe Faria, in the 1800s. Nineteen year old Dantes is being held as a prisoner on the impenetrable French island, Chateau d’if. Dantes was unrightfully imprisoned by a number of four men: Danglars, the drunk jealous sea mate, Caderousse, the greedy neighbor, Fernand, the envious cousin of Dantes’s fiancé Mercedes, and Monsieur de Villefort, a coward afraid of his own rebellious father. But of all the characters in the book, Edmund transformed the most. Not only did he adjust his name to The Count of Monte Cristo, the …show more content…
Making Edmond exceptionally intelligent and knowledgeable. When they are almost free at last, the aged Abbe dies, leaving Edmond be himself to execute the escape. Dantes hides his corpse, then sews himself in the Abbe's burial sack. The guards arrive and send the body far out to sea, after insulting the deceased, where Edmond scarcely escapes with his life.
After a rigorous fight with the tide and being picked up by a smuggler ship, Dantes sets after the Italian lost treasure. When he finally comes across it, he teetered with amazement and disbelief in what is eyes were telling him. From that moment on Edmond Dantes was caged and the very rich and very handsome Count of Monte Cristo emerged.
This Monte Cristo has two intensions— to honor those who were gentle and kind-hearted to his aging father and him, and to discipline those guilty for his incarceration. For the latter, he proposes a gradual and agonizing punishment. Having spent fourteen years hardly enduing in a dungeon, certainly demands cruel and prolonged …show more content…
To revenge himself on Villefort, Monte Cristo nonchalantly reveals to Villefort that he knows of the love affair from long ago between Villefort and the present Madame Danglars. He also exposes hints that he knows about an illegitimate son whom he fathered, Villefort believed that he buried this child alive. However, the child survived, and is now the fiancé of Danglar’s daughter, who is the illegitimate young man's half-sister.
Ironically, Villefort's wife proves to be even more villainous than her husband, for she poisons the parents of his first wife, then believes she has successfully poisoned her husband's daughter from his first marriage. With those people dead, her own son would be in line for an enormous inheritance. Villefort, however, discovers his wife's intensions and threatens her, so she then poisons herself and their son. At this point, Dantes is fearful that his revenge may have been too thorough, but because he is able to unite two young people who are very much in love, Maximilian and Valentine, and coalesce them in death on the Isle of Monte Cristo, he sails away, happy and satisfied, never to be seen

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