Examples Of Greed In The Count Of Monte Cristo

Many have heard the popular saying “Give them enough rope, and they 'll hang themselves.” This is absolutely true in the novel The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. Each of the Edmond Dantes’ enemies had a hand in their eventual ruin because of their nature as a person. Each of his enemies would have been found out eventually, Edmond helped speed up the process and increased the severity of the punishment. The first of Edmond’s enemies to be taken down was Caderousse. Caderousse was the most blatant of falling into his own trap. The Count did almost nothing to make him fall except for giving him the diamond. The narrator notes of this when Edmond gives him the diamond, “He took the diamond from his pocket and let it glitter before

At last, Baron Danglars, the last of Dantes’ enemies. Danglers are extremely greedy and conscientious in the area of his finances, to the point where he chooses money over his family. One of the more pronounced examples in when he is talking to his wife about her affair, he states, “I allow you to make me hateful, but I will prevent you from making me ridiculous; and above all, I forbid you to ruin my fortune.” (273). This clearly displays his wealth is more important than his marriage, someone with this mindset is destined to fall. What is even more revealing is when he is imprisoned and would die if he did not eat he chooses to keep the last little piece of his fortune that he still has. When he is confronted about this he says, “That’s all I have in the world, and it’s the remainder of an immense fortune. If you take it away from me, take my life away from me also.” (519) Not only does he value money over his family but also over his own life. If Dantes had not progressed the revenge in the way that he did, Danglars would have lost his fortune some other way. Someone that is willing to go crazy to save his wealth is likely disliked by many, making him a large

Dante 's merely sped up the process and increased the severity. Although his enemies were highly immoral and sinful people, it was not in Dantes power to inflict them. As can be seen very clearly in the novel, revenge is not something humans should take into their hands. People do not know how to keep within the lines of justice and revenge. The power is most often mishandled. God will inflict punishment, therefore, people do not need to keep score. The moral to be learned from this book is to trust that God will handle evil as he says he