The old man taught Edmond history, mathematics, and languages. The two meet daily and an incredible relationship flourished. While in prison, he was determined to escape and began digging a tunnel in hopes that it would lead to freedom.ĭuring this exercise, he met an elderly inmate named Abbe Faria whose attempt to dig his way to his salvation had led him only to Edmond’s cell. Dantes suffered for fourteen grueling years. There Dantes’ incarceration was secured by the plotting of his enemies outside the prison, particularly towards Villefort, who wished to cover up his own father’s connections with the Bonapartists. On his wedding day, Edmond was arrested and taken before a deputy named Villefort, a political apostate, who, to protect himself, had Edmond secretly imprisoned in the deepest dungeons of the Chateau D’If. Danglars and Ferdinand wrote a letter accusing Edmond of carrying a letter from Elba to the Bonapartist committee in Paris.Ĭaderousse, a neighbor, learned of the plot but kept silent. His shipmate, Danglars, coveted his designation as the captain of the mighty Pharon.įerdinand Mondego wished to wed Mercedes, who was affianced to Edmond. The Count of Monte Cristo is a story about a sailor, Edmond Dantes, who was betrayed during the prime of his life and career by the jealousy of his friends. Dantes’ enemies used the rivalry between the two parties in order to convince the Royalists that Edmond is a Bonapartist, therefore it is the basis for his arrest and inevitable captivity in the Chateau D’If. This situation has a profound effect on the events of the story. Royalists and the Bonapartists cut at each other’s throats in order to declare that their ruler was supreme. The citizens of France became divided by the two ruling parties.
There was confusion all over the land in regards to who led France, King Louis, or Napoleon. The Count of Monte Cristo is set within the nineteenth century of France in large and populous cities. To have spent fourteen years barely subsisting in a dungeon demands cruel and prolonged castigation. For the latter, he plans slow and painful punishment.
Monte Cristo had two goals- to reward those who were kind to him and his aging father and to punish those responsible for his imprisonment and suffering. This theme was one of revenge and vengeance. The Catholic Church in France condemned it because of its powerful message it presented to the reader.
So powerful in fact, that was controversial when it was first released. The Count of Monte Cristo is a very powerful book.
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