The Count of Monte Cristo :: The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo The Count of Monte Cristo is an interesting tale about a sailor named Dantes who changes his whole persona in order to follow back at his enemies. Dantes becomes a number of different people in order to carry out his plans. The changes Dantes went through made his different stages as a sailor and later as a mastermind of vengeance seem like day and night. Although Dantes seems genuinely nave at the beginning of the story, he becomes very sharp during his stay in jail. By the amount of detail and preciseness in his plans, Dantes as the Count can be looked as a mastermind. some(prenominal) of Dantes knowledge comes from the old, thought to be crazy, priest named Faria that taught him in prison. Faria was also responsible for much of Dantes character change due to his great power of reasoning. Because Faria had given him a treasure and a hunger for vengeance, Dantes was willing and had enough money and power to carry out revenge on his enemies. Far ia is the first person that opens up Dantes eye so that he can see who his enemies really are. When Dantes first meets Faria, he is overjoyed because he hasnt seen another person, other than the guard, for years. Faria reaches Dantes by means of a tunnel that took him 3 years to dig with his makeshift tools. Even though he had limited resources, Faria made matches, a lantern, a ladder, and a knife. Faria hid all these tools croup two separate rocks in his cell. All of these things show how smart Faria really was. Farias intelligence is what helps Dantes make his transformation. There is a maxim of jurisprudence which says, If you deficiency to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful. To whom might your disappearance be useful? This quote makes it apparent to Dantes that it wasnt just a big accident that he went to jail. When Dantes found this out, you could see an immediate change in his character. After Dantes gets the treasure that Faria ga ve him, he starts to put his biz for revenge into action. The first thing Dantes does after he gets the treasure is to change into the Count of Monte Cristo.