Villefort In The Count Of Monte Cristo

Fernand and Danglars talk about how to get rid of Edmond so the send a false police report about him.Edmond gets arrested and is sent to Chateau d’if for life for being accused of being a Bonapartist spy. Edmond escapes from jail with the help of Abbe Faria. He travels to Monte Cristo to claim the treasure. He returns to Marseilles in disguise as the Count of Monte Cristo and other alias. He tells people that Edmond Dantès is “dead”. Albert and Franz meet the Count. Franz gets a ransom note saying that Albert has been kidnapped and The Count saves Albert from Luis Vampa (who was his friend). The Count encounters Danglars about buy his prized horses from him. The horses escape and terrorized Madame Villefort and Edward her son. The Count saves them by having his slave lasso them. The Count invites them to his party and reveals that there was a murder at his house where Danglars used to live. Villefort’s mother and father in laws were killed. Valentine’s grandfather has a stroke and doctors said he was poisoned. He narrowed down that she poisoned him when she bought his

Caderousse: one of the original plotters against Edmond, he unlike Danglars and Fernand doesn’t get rich off of the scheme. In fact he chooses not to take an active part in the crime of framing Edmond for something he didn’t commit. This doesn’t mean he isn’t greedy, he is but more however he is constantly dissatisfied with his state/position and is not afraid to use any means at his disposal to rise further and further above his station. Including thievery and murder, this though gets him killed by the count when trying to rob him. Thus getting Edmond one step closure to his ultimate goal of complete vengeance.

Dantés states, "Can I have been following a false path for ten years?" (Dumas 497). It is then that the Count of Monte Cristo realizes that he is not the privileged person of God's providence, but merely a victim like everyone else. Dantés now abandons the idea that he must get revenge on everyone and realizes that he has made a mistake and wasted a part of his life. Dantés says, "How stupid I was … not to have torn my heart out the day I swore to avenge myself!" (Dumas 379). Dantés finally realizes that revenge is not everything and that the result isn't happiness and fulfillment like he thought, but it's an emptiness that leaves you with

In this quote, the author is showing how Dante’s finally learns about how he has gotten mistreated throughout the whole prison affair. I chose this quote because it shows the how gullible and trusting Dante’s was as a person and how it quickly changed into a fury that would not be extinguished.

The main theme that is presented within The Count of Monte Cristo is that revenge and manipulation is easily able to hurt someone, but also benefit another. In this case, Edmond Dantès takes the side of benefit and those brought underneath his vengeance had been ruined. After a plan carefully schemed by three of his false friends, Dantes was thrown into prison and placed under a situation of betrayal and resentment. This long wait in the chateau d’If had put a need for revenge into Dantès head which had transformed him into the Count of Monte Cristo. Although the Count was considered bitter and cold, his seek for revenge had only benefitted him into a more creatively malicious character. Furthermore, this manipulation that Dantès had been put

As Dantes lies in a prison

After Villefort was going to let him free, he reads the letter the was given to him by Napoleon. After finding out that that letter was addressed to his father, he burns the letter and sends him to the Chateau d'If. Villefort did this to protect his father and his own reputation. Dantes was in the prison for 14 years. He was very angry because of this, so after being educated, getting money, and escaping the Chateau d'If, he planned to get revenge.

When Noirtier reveals to his son, Villefort, that Madame de Villefort is the one poisoning all of his family, including his beloved daughter Valentine, Villefort’s reaction is to demand his wife to kill herself (473). Villefort’s decision to sentence his wife to death is unethical. A husband telling his wife to commit suicide or else, would not stand the test of public scrutiny among his peers. In addition, his choice does not lead to

As Dantès only focused on his revenge story, he ignored the revenge stories that could possibly emerge from the lives that he ruined. When Dantès was counceling his servant Bertuccio, he offered him advice that he should have done well to follow: “For every evil there are two remedies: time and silence” (165). If Dantès forgave the men who have done him harm, it would have made it more of “God’s will” than if he were to seek revenge because in one of the prayers that Christians recite contains a line, “forgive us our trespasses (wrongs towards another), for we forgive those who trespass against us.” Dantès says that he is doing what God allows him to do, although “just”, is not what the religion teaches. Blinded by his hatred for these men, he convinced himself that God wanted him repay his wrongdoers the amount of damage that they gave him, and as a result, he carried his vengeance thinking that he was doing according to Providence. As the events unfold, it teaches the reader how being influenced by anger and hate towards another can mentally damage an individual. Because his anger and thirst for vengeance caused him to regret his choices, Dantès changed drastically from the beginning to the end of the story. In the beginning of the novel, Dantès was full of innocence and would never to have housed the thought of revenge, but in the end, completely changed. Dantès’ prison-mate Faria was the first to notice the transformation and he regretted being the one to show Dantès’ enemies “because [he] instilled in [Dantès’] heart a feeling that wasn’t there before: vengeance” (48). During Dantès’ time in prison, he transformed from a virtuous man to a man seeking revenge. As the thought of seeking vengeance flooded through Dantès’ heart, it also clouded his judgement of morals, and in turn allowed him to plan

Monsieur Villefort demands that his wife, Héloïse Villefort, commit suicide before he returns home, “… if justice has not been done when I return, I will denounce you…” (473). Villefort condemns his wife to death after learning that she was the murderer of several members of the family that had been murdered under the very roof in which they had lives. However, Madame Villefort does not only take her own life, she also takes the life of her son, Edouard, an action that Monsieur Villefort did not predict nor wishes for to be carried out. Madame Villefort states that she cannot live without her son, who is the one true pride and joy of her life, so, she decides to also take his life along with her own. The action of taking her sons life along with her own is an extremely common practice, “… [a] mother who plans to take her own life… believes that the [child is] better off in heaven with her” (Szalavitz 1).

Villefort was the prosecutor. He had an affair with Danglar 's wife and they had an illegitimate child together. The supposedly buried it alive years earlier. Villefort 's wife Heloise is devoted to her son Edward. Villefort 's daughter from his first marriage is named Valentine. She is also in love with Maximillian Morrel, the son of the captain who helped Edmond earlier. Heloise has been posoning Valentine so that her son will inherit everything (she actually poisons and tries to poison a lot of people, but Valentine is the only one that is very important to the plot). Edmond has been slipping Valentine an antidote though so that when she "dies" is will only be a sleep from which she will awake, in very Romeo and Juliet fashion. Danglars has been trying to sell his daughter into marriage with a man that says he is a prince. As it turns out though, the "prince" is actually the illegitimate child that was saved by the man who was supposed to bury him. The count sonpored him to come in the disguise of Prince Andrea Cavoralliti. Caderousse, a crook and the only person who helped that did not beomce rich later, tried to blackamail Andrea. He then kills Caderousse. Charges are then brought against him, Villefort admits in court that he is the father. He tries to flee with his wife and son (Valentine is already "dead") only to find that his wife poisoned herself and her son. He then goes mad and

Except, the Count defies the ever-impossible odds by solving the problem in remarkable fashion. One of the Count’s allies realizes this when the Count implies, “‘I can do much, my friend,’ replied the Count. ‘Go, I need to be alone…’” (518). Maximillian feared that the love of his life had died, but in a calm collected manner by the Count, he suggests he is capable of reviving Maximillian’s love. To Maximillian’s amazement, the Count does succeed in resurrecting Maximillian’s. The Count of Monte Cristo consistently overcomes challenges an ordinary man might deem unattainable. However, the only reason he surmounts these odds is because deep down in the Count’s heart lies

When Monsieur de Villefort come back to make an effort to save his wife’s life, but it is already to late. Villefort, kicking down the door, is met with a scene that would strike terror into people’s hearts. “Mme de Villefort was standing at the entrance to the room which lead to her boudoir. She was pale and her face was contracted; she looked at him with a terrifying glare.” Monsieur de Villefort, still in shock, proceeded to look for his son Edward.

None of the personas are really deadly when they come to mind, except for one. The Count of Monte Cristo provides for the poor and helps those in need, but with a price. During Franz and Albert’s visit to the carnival in Rome, the count gives them a spot in his carriage when they were unable to find one themselves. During their meeting with the count, they are brought along to view an execution of two prisoners. This is unsettling to the two men, “Franz started backward and sank half-fainting into a chair.

As Edmond sees Villefort’s family dead and him going crazy, the narrator says, “Monte Cristo paled at the horrible sight. He realized that he had gone beyond the limits of rightful vengeance and that he could no longer say, “God is for me and with me” (403). When Edmond “paled at the horrible sight” he paled at the death of Edouard because that death is a repercussion for playing the role of Providence. He always thought that his plan to obtain justice was perfect and there would be no collateral damage because he viewed himself as Providence. The narrator describes that Edmond can no longer say “God is for me and with me” because Edmond had an epiphany that playing the role of Providence will end in a disaster because God can no longer justify for his actions therefore he can no longer execute his actions on an identical level as God.