... Edmond with the promise that he must go find a hidden treasure on the Isle of Monte Cristo. Several years later Edmond has changed his name to the Count of Monte Cristo and has become very wealthy off of his new found fortune. He now seeks out to take revenge on those that had him arrested. Monte Cristo reveals his twisted feelings, that he has accumulated since his prison experience, toward ... are both faced with an ultimate question. For Wang Lung it is if he should sell his daughter to the rich man living on the other side of The Great Wall of China, and for the Count of Monte Crist...

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... many with money, and some with love and happiness. For Morrel, the poor ship owner, Dantes, now known as The Count of Monte Cristo, rewarded him with money to pay his bills. For Maximillian Morrel, he rewarded him with the love of his life, Valentine. Although he did reward those who helped him greatly in his earlier life, they had to suffer before ... happiness so they would appreciate what they have received. Dantes is like Christ in another way, in the way that he was resurrected from the dead as a new person, the Count of Monte Cristo. While being this character, he plans to take re...

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Edmond Dantes was a young sailor who just recieved a position as captain, after taking over when his captain died in the middle of a trip. He was also looking foward to marrying his beautiful fiancee, Mercedes. On his betrothal day, he is arrested and put into the ... on an island, where no one has ever escaped. He doesn't know why he is arrested, and later finds that it is the result of four men who conspired against him. These men were Fernand Mondego, Danglars, Caderousse, and Villefort. They hated him for all different reasons. Fernand was jealous ... of Mercedes' love for Dantes. Dangla...

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... suffering fades away, the humane guilt settles under the skin. In the books "Wuthering Heights", "The Scarlet Letter", and "The Count of Monte Cristo" characters are all enraged and begin to dig their enemy's grave. In the process, a grave is also dug for themselves. The gravedigger in "Wuthering Heights" was a man ... wasted away his life in revenge. His grave had been dug, and a year after he buries himself because he had no purpose in life. In "The Count of Monte Cristo", Edmund Dantes provided an example of how getting even does not solve all problems. After he was arrested, Edmund...

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In the Count of Monte Cristo, Alexander Dumas brought about one of the best revenge tragedies filled with such exhilarating details. Edmond Dantes, whose life was brought to ruin by Fernand, Danglars and Villefort, sought vengeance ... with his mom and abandon his name and property. For Mercedes, she never loved Fernand and did not have any regret of living him behind. This was, ironically, the justice and punishment that the Count had inflicted upon Fernand for what he had done that caused Edmond fourteen years in prison leading a miserable, wretched life that ... about his father's treason ...

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... a hero after his baptismal escape from the Chateau d"If, also by lying and changing his identity to The Count Of Monte Cristo. He was truly a hero to many people; but after disclosure of a friend, his Abomination, Bitterness, excruciating torment, and his final Vengeance, took over his heart and soul. Edmond Dantes had everything; a beautiful wife, a propitious ... and become mean and vicious towards the life that he knew and loved so much. When Edmond reached the water surface, he was a new man. All of his morals and everything he had ever been taught, by his father, and the priest, wa...

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... 73) Only a person who has been very miserable can experience the wonder of being very happy. Alexander Dumas conveys this kind of feeling in his novel, The Count of Monte Cristo, in many of the characters. There is a big contrast between two types of characters in the novel. The cruel characters tend to be the ones who are ... unhappy and dislike their life, not because of the way they are, but because of what they don't ... novel are content with what they have and live life to the fullest in that. Dumas shows how many things can bring about this feeling of unhappiness. First of all, ...

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... 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. ... he conceived a...

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... was able to get a job at a noble's transcribing plays. (Grenier, 12) During this time Dumas began to write some of his own works. Two of his most popular works are The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. Love is the predominant theme in The Count of Monte Cristo and honor is the predominant theme in The Three Musketeers, however both are filled with betrayal and revenge. Dumas believed ... emotions one can feel, to have one you must experience the other as well. "Only the man who has experienced extreme agony can experience true happiness" (The Count of Monte Cristo pg 304)....

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... Dantes inflicts upon his four enemies is related to their deepest ambitions. Dantes" enemies that were greedy were eventually destroyed by their greed. One of his enemies, Fernand, used people to gain power and was eventually destroyed by the people he used. Villefort lived two separate lives, his ... own wife in order to have a diamond and the money already paid for it by a jeweler. Later, while robbing Monte Cristo's house, he is caught by Monte Cristo, but allowed to leave; while leaving, he is killed by his old friend Benedetto whom he had blackmailed earlier. Danglars is also ... o...

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... have everything their heart desires. In the Trilogy The Lord of the Rings there is that basic theme of good versus evil. The corrupted Sauron and Saruman try to take over all of middle earth, and the heroic fellowship try to stop them to make the world at peace once more. In The Count of Monte Cristo Fernand betrays his best friend Dantes because he was jealous ... of the life Dantes had. Later on in the novel Dantes takes revenge on his former friend Fernand. In any case it's always the good that triumphs over the evil. One ... . Sauron cannot conceive that his enemies would voluntari...

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The Count of Monte Cristo is a tale about friendship, betrayal, and vengeance. It is a mans journey to rediscovering his faith in God and in friendship. James Caviezel stars as Edmond Dantes, a man of little means surrounding himself in high class society and is ultimately betrayed by his best friend Fernand Mondego, played by Guy Pearce. Dantes is second mate on the merchant ship ... captain's brain fever. This happens to be the island where Napoleon has been exiled. While on the island Napoleon gives Dantes a letter of treasonous affairs, contents Dantes knows nothing of because he can't ...

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