In Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo, a young sailor by the name of Edmond Dantés is wrongly accused of being a Bonapartist and is thrown in jail where he discovers the truth of his enslavement and concocts a plan for revenge. The choices that Edmond Dantés makes drastically twists his once ordinary life into a whirlwind of secrecy, such as deciding to take a letter to Napoleon, from there delivering a message from Napoleon to one of Napoleon’s allies. Once imprisoned, Danéts meets a man named Abbe Faria in the dungeons of the Chateau d’If where he learns information crucial to him and his prison escape, but was cautious at first, for people thought he was a madman. Finally, after secretly conversing, Abbe Faria had gained Dantes’ trust and then he shows Dantés that he was imprisoned by his friends, leading him to seek revenge.
The first choice made by Edmond Dantés, otherwise known as The Count of Monte Cristo, was to send a …show more content…
After the evidence presented by Faria that Dantés friends had imprisoned him, Dantés became shocked and swore revenge. This eventually makes Dantes became less trusting and makes him transform from a cheery man, to a man full of sorrow waiting to carry out God’s wishes. Faria stating, “ ‘I regret having helped you clarify your past and having told you what I did.’ ‘Why.’ ‘Because I've instilled in your heart a feeling that wasn't there before: vengeance’ ”(58).
After all is analyzed, Edmond Dantés is an honest and loyal man, driven to vengeance by the betrayal of his friends. Although it was his friends that betrayed him, the choices he made such as sending a letter from his dying captain to Napoleon and being accused of being a Bonapartist, trusting a madman named Abbe Faria and learning from him, and finally swearing revenge over those who imprisoned him, all molded him in the final character that developed inside
The first choice made by Edmond Dantés, otherwise known as The Count of Monte Cristo, was to send a …show more content…
After the evidence presented by Faria that Dantés friends had imprisoned him, Dantés became shocked and swore revenge. This eventually makes Dantes became less trusting and makes him transform from a cheery man, to a man full of sorrow waiting to carry out God’s wishes. Faria stating, “ ‘I regret having helped you clarify your past and having told you what I did.’ ‘Why.’ ‘Because I've instilled in your heart a feeling that wasn't there before: vengeance’ ”(58).
After all is analyzed, Edmond Dantés is an honest and loyal man, driven to vengeance by the betrayal of his friends. Although it was his friends that betrayed him, the choices he made such as sending a letter from his dying captain to Napoleon and being accused of being a Bonapartist, trusting a madman named Abbe Faria and learning from him, and finally swearing revenge over those who imprisoned him, all molded him in the final character that developed inside