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Noah Harrigan
Mrs. Cooper
Honors English 2; Period 4
19 September 2016
The Confusion of Revenge for Justice
The revolutionist Martin Luther King, Jr stated during one of his speeches that, “Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle”. Martin is defining the relationship between man and the act of doing one's best self-interest. More and more a man willing to try and conceive an act of justice must rip layer by layer to fulfillingly receive balance. In the novel “The Count Of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas is a transformation story from Edmond Dantes a previously pure and warm-hearted sailor thrown through the corrupt set of emotions and …show more content…
The setting is put in front of the live execution with The Count Of Monte Cristo discussing with Franz and Albert on the topic of how a few seconds of pain should be enough for years of inflicted sin. In the conversation, The Count says that the blade of guillotine cutting through the trapezius in front of a crowd is a perfect act of justice. Being imprisoned at Chateau D'If, Dantes gets an exaggerated amount of time to grow up and mature, with that he finds his mentor and becomes a menti to a very wise old priest named Faria. The two were in back and forth conversation investing the previous “friends” to Dantes, and from that, they found the now solved question of why was Dantes really in prison? During the conversation Faria predicts the far but near future of Dantes and apologizes with, “I regret now,” said he, “having helped you in your late inquiries, or having given you the information I did.” Dantes had not understood the response of Faria and with his misconception, Faria goes on by saying his pledge of forgivingness, “Because it has instilled a new passion in your heart—that of vengeance.” This is Faria’s understanding of human nature and that he knows the circumstances that have consumed Dantes - and what it will do. Thus concluding to the twisted reality of what could be alluded as Dante's losing himself to the pain and suffering he’d …show more content…
By saying the “torture was followed by death” and “he’d doomed the unknown men” we know as the readers that it was never intended for innocent lives to be lost; only the wrongdoers. Losing himself more and more to the misguided rage, Dantes realizes that the plan wasn’t the appropriate and honorable thing to do so as readers we know ultimately the actions you do to conflict or alter one's life will be the effect the equality in societal balance. Like in a lot of literature one will use their death as the disguise for a alter motive scheme, circling around this idea that Dantes is using his aliases to investigate the mistake of his imprisonment. History is to be made, we get to learn from the torture that Dantes had inflicted on others and himself to some extent, we know what will come out of a plan to ruin the life of another when being guided by revenge. Dantes doesn’t understand a common man's form of justice and confuses it with an act of revenge. Does this seem right? It may be conveyed that it is already justified “Oh yes, I have wrongfully been imprisoned. I must destroy those who put me in here and taken away my life”. But no man should design a plan to throw off the fortune and hospitality of another man's life, at the drive of self-devastation. A reader can almost ask if the entire novel is a massive lesson, because when reading the novel are shown that issues of a man being torn down and down
Noah Harrigan
Mrs. Cooper
Honors English 2; Period 4
19 September 2016
The Confusion of Revenge for Justice
The revolutionist Martin Luther King, Jr stated during one of his speeches that, “Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle”. Martin is defining the relationship between man and the act of doing one's best self-interest. More and more a man willing to try and conceive an act of justice must rip layer by layer to fulfillingly receive balance. In the novel “The Count Of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas is a transformation story from Edmond Dantes a previously pure and warm-hearted sailor thrown through the corrupt set of emotions and …show more content…
The setting is put in front of the live execution with The Count Of Monte Cristo discussing with Franz and Albert on the topic of how a few seconds of pain should be enough for years of inflicted sin. In the conversation, The Count says that the blade of guillotine cutting through the trapezius in front of a crowd is a perfect act of justice. Being imprisoned at Chateau D'If, Dantes gets an exaggerated amount of time to grow up and mature, with that he finds his mentor and becomes a menti to a very wise old priest named Faria. The two were in back and forth conversation investing the previous “friends” to Dantes, and from that, they found the now solved question of why was Dantes really in prison? During the conversation Faria predicts the far but near future of Dantes and apologizes with, “I regret now,” said he, “having helped you in your late inquiries, or having given you the information I did.” Dantes had not understood the response of Faria and with his misconception, Faria goes on by saying his pledge of forgivingness, “Because it has instilled a new passion in your heart—that of vengeance.” This is Faria’s understanding of human nature and that he knows the circumstances that have consumed Dantes - and what it will do. Thus concluding to the twisted reality of what could be alluded as Dante's losing himself to the pain and suffering he’d …show more content…
By saying the “torture was followed by death” and “he’d doomed the unknown men” we know as the readers that it was never intended for innocent lives to be lost; only the wrongdoers. Losing himself more and more to the misguided rage, Dantes realizes that the plan wasn’t the appropriate and honorable thing to do so as readers we know ultimately the actions you do to conflict or alter one's life will be the effect the equality in societal balance. Like in a lot of literature one will use their death as the disguise for a alter motive scheme, circling around this idea that Dantes is using his aliases to investigate the mistake of his imprisonment. History is to be made, we get to learn from the torture that Dantes had inflicted on others and himself to some extent, we know what will come out of a plan to ruin the life of another when being guided by revenge. Dantes doesn’t understand a common man's form of justice and confuses it with an act of revenge. Does this seem right? It may be conveyed that it is already justified “Oh yes, I have wrongfully been imprisoned. I must destroy those who put me in here and taken away my life”. But no man should design a plan to throw off the fortune and hospitality of another man's life, at the drive of self-devastation. A reader can almost ask if the entire novel is a massive lesson, because when reading the novel are shown that issues of a man being torn down and down