To revenge himself on Villefort, Monte Cristo slowly reveals to Villefort that he knows about a love affair that Villefort had long ago with the present Madame Danglars. To revenge himself on Caderousse, Monte Cristo easily traps Caderousse because of his insatiable greed, then watches as one of Caderousse's cohorts murders him. To revenge himself on Danglars, who loves money more than anything else, Monte Cristo ruins him financially. When they leave him, he is so distraught that he shoots himself. Then Monte Cristo destroys Morcerf's relationship with his family, whom he adores. Monte Cristo releases information to the press that proves that Morcerf is a traitor, and Morcerf is ruined socially. But Monte Cristo, in contrast, recognizes all of his enemies - all now wealthy and influential men.įernand has married Mercédès and is now known as Count de Morcerf. To have spent fourteen years barely subsisting in a dungeon demands cruel and prolonged punishment.Īs Monte Cristo, Dantès ingeniously manages to be introduced to the cream of Parisian society, among whom he goes unrecognized. For the latter, he plans slow and painful punishment. Monte Cristo has two goals - to reward those who were kind to him and his aging father, and to punish those responsible for his imprisonment. And when he emerges into society again, he is the very rich and very handsome Count of Monte Cristo. When he finally discovers it, he is staggered by the immensity of its wealth. The guards arrive, carry the sack outside, and heave the body far out to sea.ĭantès manages to escape and is picked up by a shipful of smugglers, whom he joins until he can locate the island where the treasure is hidden. Dantès hides his body, then sews himself in the Abbé's burial sack. He too begins digging, and soon he meets an old Abbé who knows the whereabouts of an immense fortune, one that used to belong to an immensely wealthy Italian family.ĭantès and the Abbé continue digging for several years, and from the Abbé, Dantès learns history, literature, science, and languages, but when at last they are almost free, the Abbé dies. Villefort fears, however, that this letter might damage his own position, and so he makes sure, he thinks, that no one ever hears about either Dantès or the letter again.įor many years, Dantès barely exists in his tiny, isolated cell he almost loses his mind and his will to live until one day he hears a fellow prisoner burrowing nearby. Villefort, a prosecutor who knows that Dantès is carrying a letter addressed to Villefort's father the old man is a Bonapartist who would probably be imprisoned by the present royalist regime were it not for his son's, Villefort's, influence.Caderousse, an unprincipled neighbor and.Danglars, the purser of the Pharaon, who covets Dantès' promised captainship.Fernand Mondego, who is jealous of Mercédès' love for Dantès.As a reward, Dantès is promised a captainship, but before he can claim his new post and be married to his fiancée, Mercédès', a conspiracy of four jealous and unsavory men arrange for him to be seized and secretly imprisoned in solitary confinement in the infamous Chateau d'If, a prison from which no one has ever escaped. Edmond Dantès, a handsome, promising young sailor, skillfully docks the three-masted French ship, the Pharaon, in Marseilles after its captain died en route home.
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