The Count Of Monte Cristo: Revenge :: essays research papers

The numerate of Monte Cristo avengeThe Story of Edmond Dants, the Sailor, who Becomes the Rich & Powerful Count ofMonte Cristo and Takes Revenge on whole his Enemies.Chesky Hoffman June 17, 1996 Dr. GoodaleIn this essay I will show how Edmond Dantes punishes his quaternion enemies withrelation to their specific ambitions. Edmond is sent to jail due to hisenemies jealousy. After he escapes he becomes rich and powerful and gets backat them. Before I relate to you how Dantes gets back at his enemies I wouldlike to familiarize you with the story.The story describes the life story of its main character Edmond Dantes. He ispromoted to captain of his ship. This promotion ignites the jealousy of hisfellow shipmate Danglars. Dantes is then falsely accused of being a Bonapartist.This means he sides with nap Bonaparte and is committing treason againsthis own king. He is sent to a prison called the Chteau dIf. The Chteau dIfwas surrounded by water and was known as a place of no return. Whe n Dantesescapes, he takes revenge against his four enemies who conspired against him tosend him to prison, in the manner of an eye for and eye. These fourconspirators are Danglars, Caderousse, Fernand Mondago, and Villefort. In orderto take revenge on his four enemies, Dantes uses a variety of names anddisguises. The main new identity he uses for himself is The Count of MonteCristo.Danglars, as mentioned above, was the Counts shipmate when his name wasstill Edmond Dantes. When Edmond went to jail, Danglars ran away and becamevery rich. Caderousse was a tailor. He was also the Counts fathers landlordand once the count was sent to prison, Caderousse allowed Dantes father tostarve to death. Fernand Mondago was in love with the counts fiancee Mercdes.When the Count was sent to jail Fernand married her on the pretext that thecount would not return. These three enemies all got together one night and wereall responsible for writing an incriminating letter about the Count to hisfourth enemy , Monsieur De Villefort, who was the citys temporary prosecutor atthe time. He was responsible for the actual sending of the Count to prison.After the Count escaped from prison, he discovered that all his enemieshad moved to Paris. He became acquainted with people from that city andeventually moved there so that he could have his revenge. The revenge taken onDanglars matches the abuse which he committed toward the Count. When Danglarswrote the incriminating letter about the Count, calling him a Bonapartist, his