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Count Of Monte Cristo Revenge
Revenge is not the Jedi way
Edmond Dantes, The Count of Monte Cristo, Sinbad the Sailor, Abbe Busoni, Lord Wilmore, throughout Edmond’s plot for revenge in The Count of Monte Cristo he has become many people and he has also learned that revenge brings suffering. In his blind hatred for the men that wronged him, Dantes fails to realize how his actions harm the innocent people connected to the lives of the wrongdoers. For example, when the count uses Benedetto to discredit Villefort and Villefort comes home to a murdered son and a suicided wife, even though these deaths are not cause directly by Monte Cristo, “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,’…Then,

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