The Count of Monte Cristo 2

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The Count of Monte Cristo, written by Alexandre Dumas, tells the story of a man, Edmond Dantes, a sailor who goes through being betrayed by his enemies and thrown in to a dark prison cell to planning revenge on his enemies. His behavior and personality changes after spending 14 years in jail for a crime that he didn't commit. Edmond Dantes was thrown in jail ,after being framed by his enemies, accused of committing treason and being a bonapartist. The story takes place during the Napoleonic Era while the usurper, Napoleon has escaped to his place of exile, the Isle of Elba, located in the Mediterranean Sea.

The story of Edmond Dantes starts out as him being a sailor, aboard the Pharaon; he's soon to become captain of the ship. Monsieur Morrel is the name of the owner of the Pharaon and a great friend of Dantes. He treats Edmond with great respect. There's also a little special lady in Dantes life, the beautiful and wonderful Mercedes. A dream job and a dream wife, who could possibly want more?

His dream soon becomes shattered by three of his enemies, Danglars, Fernand, and Caderousse. As these three people plot against Edmond, he is about to become married to the beautiful Mercedes. On his we


There is a moral to this story; if you treat poorly, you'll eventually get treated poorly. But if you treat people properly, you'll get treat properly too. An example is Monsieur Morrel, he treated Dantes with respect and he received respect back from Dantes. But Caderousse, Fernand, Danglars and Villefort treated Dantes poorly, and they were punished. Treat people the way you want to be treated.

As the story goes on, The Count of Monte Cristo makes many friends of his enemies but his enemies don't realize what's happening because the Count is in disguise. The Count has many connections too, which help him get revenge on his enemies. For most of the cases, the Count punished most of his enemies that resolved to death. Through many events, a friend of Monte Cristo murdered Caderousse. And Fernand was prosecuted for murdering a man that was the father of the woman Monte Cristo loved. Because Fernand already lost his honor, instead of being more humiliated by being executed, he committed suicide. And Monsieur de Villefort lost his whole family after they committed suicide because of the events that Monte Cristo caused. Bandits, friends of Monte Cristo captured Monsieur Danglars, and they robbed Danglars of his whole fortune. But Danglars didn't die; he was set free with the remaining fifty thousand francs that they had left him.

After Escaping from the Chateau d'If, Edmond Dantes went to the Isle of Monte Cristo and found the large treasure that Abbe told him about. Because of spending 14 year

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