Edmond Dantes Revenge

A Pashtun phrase says that, “Revenge is a dish best served cold.” In the book The Count of Monte Christo, written by Alexandre Dumas, Edmond Dantes served his revenge cold. During the beginning of this historical novel, Edmond had quickly and surprisingly gained great fortune. After his worthy captain fell ill and perished, Edmond posed as captain in his place. Fulfilling the last request of his captain, the young man took a detour to an island and delivered a letter from his captain to some men. In return, these men entrusted him with a letter to bring to Paris. Edmond planned to return to Marseilles and marry the girl of his dream before delivering the letter. Unfortunately, two men became envious of him and concocted a plan to rid him of

Danglers could not and would not stand for it and wrote a letter accusing Edmond of treason. However, immediately afterwards, he crumpled it up and threw it away in disgust. Fernand Mondego sneakily confiscated the letter and delivered it anonymously. Why did Fernand, a poor fisherman, hate Edmond? Fernand Mondego desired to marry Mercedes, who was betrothed to Edmond, but Mercedes only thought of him as a brother. Mercedes’s betrothal filled the broken hearted man with rage and he determined to eradicate Edmond from Mercedes’s life. Although these two men planned and executed their plan, one man ruined Edmond’s life forever. One man’s decision changed and destroyed the bright future that Edmond had before him. This man was Villefort. Villefort condemned Edmond to the Chateau d’If, a grim island fortress off of Marseilles. Villefort sentenced the innocent man to prison without a trial. Villefort ruined Edmond’s life in order to conceal his connections. For six years Edmond wallowed in despair before meeting Abbe Faria. After eight years, Abbe Faria tragically died but not before leaving a map to treasure. Edmond daringly escaped and later went back and confiscated the

As previously stated, three people were instrumental in putting Edmond in prison. Danglers, envious of Edmond becoming captain, wrote a letter accusing Edmond of conspiring with Bonaparte. After writing this letter, he threw it away with disgust and stalked away. Fernand secretly picked up the letter and submitted it. Villefort incarcerated the promising young man into the deepest darkest dungeon. In prison he, “decided it was human hatred and not divine vengeance that had plunged him into this abyss. He doomed these unknown men to every torment that his inflamed imagination could devise, while still considering that the most frightful were too mild and, above all, too brief for them: torture was followed by death, and death brought, if not repose, at least an insensibility that resembled it. (Dumas 15) He kept this thinking throughout the book and attempted his revenge on the three vile men that had pilfered him of 14 years of his life and his