Examples Of Greed In The Count Of Monte Cristo

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What seems good turns bad, and what seems bad turns good. It is an endless cycle. In the movie, Count of Monte Cristo, Edmond Dantes looks as if he has the perfect life. He is about to become the captain of a ship, he is engaged to a woman named Mercedes, and he is liked by almost everyone who knows him. This amazing life, however, ends up dangerous because of the jealousy among some of Dantes’s so-called friends. And the revenge of Dantes.

As a wise man once said, ‘Jealousy is a form of hatred built upon insecurity.’ Danglars, wants Dantes’s success; Fernand is in love with Dantes’s fiancée and also craves his success; his neighbor Caderousse is jealous that Dantes life is easier than his own. We think that the people that are around us

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