Montecristo

Revenge in Dante's life Revenge is a powerful thing to want. It consumes people, and can make them forget the important things going on around them. They think that they are getting justice for themselves. When really sometimes revenge is as pointless as putting out a fire with gas. A man named Edmond Dantes was wrongly imprisoned for 14 years. In those years Dantes sat in a prison called the Château d'If, he thought of many different ways to get revenge on his enemies. The men he thought he could trust were the reasoning behind him being stuck in jail. There was more than just one person who had done him wrong, and Dantes knew that he was going to get back at all of them one way or another. With his genius thinking, he got out of the prison all on his own. He wanted his revenge so badly he even came up with his own, clever, escape plan. Then, he started on his journey, traveling on a long path to earn his redemption. Dantes gets his revenge in many ways, but he was not truly satisfied until he learned that he needed to forgive to get the purest form of revenge there is. Dantes was a master of disguise. He became whoever he wanted to be, when he wanted to be them. Gerard De Villefort, was a man who wronged Dantes more than once in his life. VIllefort burns the letter that sent Dantes to prison. Dantes then has no way to prove his innocents, and one of the few men who knew that he was innocent was now had turned against him. Dantes becomes furious. As soon as Dantes leaves…

However, V chiefly cares about himself and makes that fact evident throughout the film. Early on in the movie, V and Evey (Natalie Portman) sit down together to watch V’s favorite film: The Count of Montecristo. When V asks her whether she liked the movie, she says she feels bad for Mercedes, the Count’s love interest. When he asks her why, she replies, “Because he cared more about revenge than he did about her” (McTeigue). This is not only true for V’s relationship with Evey, but also for his…

this restored a great amount of his hope. He then starts to in the wall from the same spot from where he heard the sound. Soon after, the two digging prisoners were close enough to communicate. They continued digging until there was no wall in between them. The other prisoner introduces himself as Abbe Faria. To Dantès, Faria was a blessing and would help occupy himself. Over the years, Faria tells Dantès that he was once a priest and that he should not lose faith in God. Dumas…