Dantes Vengeance For Caderousse

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When Dantes gains vengeance for Caderousse’s selfish actions, he is justified because Caderousse is the source of his own downfall. When Dantes returns to Marseilles, he is appalled to learn that his father was forced to pay “a hundred and forty francs” to Caderousse and that he “lived for three months on [only] sixty francs” (8). Dantes begins to grow displeased with Caderousse because he did not display mercy for a Dantes’s poor, old father who needed the money he owed to survive. During the scene when Dantes’s alias, Abbe Busoni, gives Caderousse a diamond, he is ecstatic and shows Abbe Busoni “effusive declarations of gratitude” (110). He does this because, like before, he is only thinking of himself and the earnings he will obtain from