Count Of Monte Cristo Vs V For Vendetta Analysis

Blood for Blood Retaliation While living in a corrupted world, it is hard to stay on the right side of the law. It is usually the justice system alongside the government that fails those it is supposed to protect. Living in a world where governments and society in general are corrupted, it is easy to lose sense of what is right or wrong, and sometimes it is necessary to take justice into one's own hands. Such is the case of Edmond Dantes in "The Count of Monte Cristo" and V in "V for Vendetta", once honest and good men consumed by pain, disappointment, and hate who engage in a vendetta against those who destroyed their life. The success of both characters' revenge is achieved differently because V destroys and Dantes exposes. Dantes and V come from different worlds. Dantes lives in France between 1815 and 1839. He is a sailor that in one of his trips crosses path with Napoleon Bonaparte, who at the time was trying to regain control over France. Dantes was only nineteen and very successful in life. He was about to be named captain of his ship and was happily engaged to a beautiful woman. All this happiness and success in Dante's life make him deserving of the jealousy of those close to him. On the …show more content…
An eye for an eye is the law Dantes and V create for themselves. A justification for their actions is the pain and all the suffering they endured. Combined they send a clear message to the world of what makes a superhero and a villain. There is a thin line between good and evil, what is right and what is not. Whereas Dantes manages to achieve his revenge without killing, V goes to extremes and actually kills. Dantes is able to control his desires for vengeance and uses more lawful ways to punish those who betray him, while V loses himself in the