Revenge, justice, mercy and revolution are some of the scenarios that stand out within ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’the renowned work of the French novelist and playwright alexander dumas.
The novel is born in a France that is going through a deep political, financial and moral crisis, a few years before the revolution of 1848 broke out and a decade after the Three Glorious Ones, in 1830.
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Edmond Dantès, the protagonist of this story, is about to become a captain, and is going to marry the Countess of Morcef, without knowing the envy that would generate in his closest environment. The young man is anonymously accused of Bonapartism and ends up being arrested on the wedding day, being sentenced to 14 years in captivity.
In this way, Dantés is transferred to the dungeons of the Castle of If for a crime he never committed, a place where suicide is considered and at the same time He lives an authentic transformation as a person.
In this sense, for some critics This is the best personal growth and development book ever.. A work that teaches to know oneself, to develop and master all human potentialities: anger, resistance, revenge, to resist, acceptance and pain.
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Part of the integral overcoming that Dantes achieves is due in part to the friendship that he establishes with an old abbot named Faria. This teaches you from mathematics to history, passing language, philosophy, languages, physics and chemistry.
After escaping from prison, Edmundo is rescued by smugglers, whom he joined doing business on the island of Monte Cristo until become a rich man.
Dantes then decides to change his identity as one more step to achieve his goal: to take revenge on those who accused him.
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Thus, he arrives in Marseilles where he meets his fiancée, already married —he was supposed to have been executed for treason— and the objectives of his revenge. It is then that he begins his long plan.
Nine years later, Edmund arrives in Paris as the Count of Monte Cristo. and, with all his money and experience in the business world, he manages to create a network capable of ruining his enemies.
Inspired by his father
According to BBC Mundo, the adventures of Edmundo Dantés They were inspired by General Alexandre Dumasthe author’s father, a Haitian-born mulatto man who became a general shortly after the French Revolution and was remembered for his great hand-to-hand combat skills.
