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Term Paper Title	The Count Of Monte Cristo: Revenge
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The Count of Monte Cristo: Revenge

The Story of Edmond Dantès, the Sailor, who Becomes the Rich & Powerful Count of
Monte Cristo and Takes Revenge on all his Enemies.

Chesky Hoffman June 17, 1996 Dr. Goodale

     In this essay I will show how Edmond Dantes punishes his four enemies with
relation to their specific ambitions.  Edmond is sent to jail due to his
enemies' jealousy.  After he escapes he becomes rich and powerful and gets back
at them.  Before I relate to you how Dantes gets back at his enemies I would
like to familiarize you with the story.
     The story describes the life of its main character Edmond Dantes.  He is
promoted to captain of his ship.  This promotion ignites the jealousy of his
fellow shipmate Danglars.  Dantes is then falsely accused of being a Bonapartist.
This means he sides with Napoleon Bonaparte and is committing treason against
his own king.  He is sent to a prison called the Château d'If.  The Château d'If
was surrounded by water and was known as a place of no return.  When Dantes
escapes, he takes revenge against his four enemies who conspired against him to
send him to prison, in the manner of an eye for and eye.  These four
conspirators are Danglars, Caderousse, Fernand Mondago, and Villefort.  In order
to take revenge on his four enemies, Dantes uses a variety of names and
disguises. The main new identity he uses for himself is The Count of Monte
Cristo.
     Danglars, as mentioned above, was the Count's shipmate when his name was
still Edmond Dantes.  When Edmond went to jail, Danglars ran away and became
very rich.  Caderousse was a tailor.  He was also the Count's father's landlord
and once the count was sent to prison, Caderousse allowed Dantes' father to
starve to death.  Fernand Mondago was in love with the count's fiancee Mercédes.
When the Count was sent to jail Fernand married her on the pretext that the
count would not return.  These three enemies all got together one night and were
all responsible for writing an incriminating letter about the Count to his
fourth enemy, Monsieur De Villefort, who was the city's temporary prosecutor at
the time.  He was responsible for the actual sending of the Count to prison.
     After the Count escaped from prison, he discovered that all his enemies
had moved to Paris.  He became acquainted with people from that city and
eventually moved there so that he could have his revenge.  The revenge taken on
Danglars matches the crime which he committed toward the Count.  When Danglars
wrote the incriminating letter about the Count, calling him a Bonapartist, his
intention was to get the Count's position as Captain of the ship for himself.
This shows how power hungry he was.  In order for the Count to take proper
revenge on this man, he recalled Danglars's great lust for power and decided to
gradually diminish Danglars' wealth.  This in turn made Danglars lose his
reputation as a good banker.  As a result, Danglars had to run away from the
embarrassment of losing all of his power and high stature.
     We see the same concept of 'an eye for and eye' played out in the Count's
revenge toward Caderousse.  When the Count escaped from jail he remembered what
a love for money Caderousse had.  Therefore he brought Caderousse a diamond.
When an appraiser came to Caderousse's house, he paid for the diamond and then
stayed for the night.  In middle of the night Caderousse killed ...

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