deliberate acts of corruption. An identifiable act of corruption that served as the means

for three men to obtain individual prosperity, whilst causing another man to be

condemned for life was the root for the predominant theme of corruption in The Count of

Monte Cristo. Each man who partook in the action of removing Edmond Dantes from his

position of employment, father, and fiancee sought to gain prosperity in separate

domains, M. Danglars in his occupation, M. de Villefort in his social standing, and

Fernand Mondego with the love of Mercedes, Edmond’s betrothed.

M. Danglars was a man filled with vicious hatred and cruel intentions towards

Edmond Dantes. “We will leave Danglars struggling with the feelings of hatred, and

endeavoring to insinuate in the ear of the shipowner, Morrel, some evil suspicions against

his comrade... [referring to Dantes] (Dumas 14)”. The animosity felt by Danglars can be

attributed to his want to be promoted from the position of supercargo to that of captain

aboard the ship of his employment the Pharaon. At the present time Dantes was the only

person impeding his progression to becoming captain as he was t

Chateau D’If for an indefinite period of time. “The man he sacrificed to his ambition,

fact is implied and can be located from both the preceding and proceeding text in the

Edmond returns from a voyage that he was feared not to return from and reunites with

me, is this not the moment for a wedding?”... “Tell me for the hundredth time that

initial rapidity and willingness to employ Danglars’s plan of fraudulently naming

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