Quotes


 * 1.**

[Abbé Faria:] "I regret having helped you in your investigation and said what I did to you," he remarked.

"Why is that?" Dantes asked.

"Because I have insinuated a feeling into your heart that was not previously there: the desire for revenge."

Chapter 17, pages 193-195

Here we see that Abbe has given Dantes to idea for revenge. Abbe knows that nothing good can come of it, but he knows it is something that Dantes will do. Putting this idea into Dantes head changes the whole story. Instead of Dantes using the treasure he finds as a way to make life joyful and comfortable He Uses it for revenge. By doing so he ends up killing some innocent people, which he takes very hard and is sorry for. Dantes realizes that revenge wasn't the key, but he needed to forgive him self in-order to forgive every one that had betrayed him.


 * 2.**

"The time when there were two nations in France has passed.

The leading families of the monarchy have melted into the families of the empire

and the aristocracy of the lance has married the nobility of the cannon."

Chapter 51, page 36

Here we see that not only is Dantes world changing, but so is France. During this time France was going into a major culture revolution. Through out the story Napoleon is a major impact, that actually leads to Dantes going to prison. When Dantes is sent to go deliver the letter and package to the man in France, and the man with Napoleon, Dantes is framed for having a conspiracy with Napoleon. During these time people where sick of Napoleon so they exiled him During this time France was discovering themselves again, which the author uses in the story a lot.


 * 3.**

"He decided it was human hatred and not divine vengeance that had

plunged him into this abyss. He doomed these unknown men to

every torment that his inflamed imagination could devise, while

still considering that the most frightful were too mild and, above all,

too brief for them: torture was followed by death, and death brought,

if not repose, at least an insensibility that resembled it."

Chapter 15 page 8

Here we can see Dantes hatred and anger toward revenge. When the story says, "He doomed these unknown men to every torment that his inflamed imagination could devise." We see that Dantes is marking these three men to every bad thing he can think of. He decided nothing will stop him, to get in his way. These men are marked with a permanent marker.