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Vengeance And Justice In The Count Of Monte Cristo

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Vengeance and Justice can come hand in hand because if it didn’t there wouldn’t be so many situations of it and I have the evidence to prove so. First, In the Folktale “What we plant we will eat” They show in the story of Two brothers one who loses everything while the other got Everything, The oldest Brother got revenge on the younger and left him with nothing and wouldn’t help him and his family and only laughed at him. The Justice in it was soon came as the youngest brother found a helpless bird and helped it and got a set of seeds that grew into a vine full of watermelons when cut open gold and good came out of it. Then when the Oldest Brother tried the Bird saw through his eyes and knew he wasn’t doing it for good and when he got the seeds and watermelons all bad came out of it and he lost everything but his younger brother ended up helping him and decided to work together. In this example it shows …show more content…

When he finally gets out with a bit of revenge along the way and killing people to be free.Finally he gets the Prosecutor who helped get him arrested to admit in the steam room that he purposely got Edmond arrested and ends up getting arrested. Within this story you can see while there was revenge he also got justice for himself and gets his life back. After his life was taken from him for something he didn’t do. Justice and Revenge can come hand in hand if you look at the full picture and read in between the lines of the situation. Another example is Mondago who was the one who talked the prosecutor to get Edmond arrested. After stealing Edmond life away from him and destroying his life over a ship and a girl. Edmond makes his returns and Mondago not only lost what he took but he ended up dying in the end. In this example you can see there was quite a few of Vengeance but there was also justice because Edmond got his what was his

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