“Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: ‘It is mine to avenge; I will repay,’ says the Lord” (Romans 12:8). The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas illustrated the theme of vengeance through the main character’s actions thoughts and actions. Dantes calls for justice that led to the pursuing of vengeance. Dantes pursues his vengeance by damaging the victim harshly, specifically Danglars. However, God says something different about pursuing vengeance. He tells us to leave the vengeance to God and do not take revenge. Dantes’ perception of justice contradicts God’s commands while Dantes claims that he is an agent of God’s justice.
Dantes begins to seek revenge after he has been imprisoned in the Chateau d 'If, as he turned to God and began to think about what his
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In the beginning, Dantes did not realize the fact that he has been falsely accused of being a Bonapartist but later, Abbe Faria, Dantes’ friend whom Dantes met in the prison Chateau d 'If, informed Dantes about the reality and he insinuated Dantes a desire to pursue vengeance. “Faria bent on him his penetrating eye: “I regret now,” said he, “having helped you with your late inquiries, or having given you the information I did.” “Why so?” inquired Dantes. “Because it has instilled a new passion in your heart -- that of vengeance.” (Dumas 90). Faria caught that Dantes is determined to pursue vengeance against his adversaries only by looking at him. After Dantes escaped with the information that Abbe Faria gave him, including that of the Island of Monte Cristo, Dantes goes to the island and gain wealth with all the treasures that were hidden on the island. After gaining all the wealth, he planned to carry out his plan of vengeance by financially ruining them. “This, reckoning his loss, and what he had missed gaining,