Who Is The Evil In The Count Of Monte Cristo

People are often confident that retribution will heal them because their suffering is recompensed. 1 Peter 3:9 states, “you do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, repay evil with blessing.” “I made myself vindictive, crafty, and cruel, or, rather, impassive like deaf and blind fate itself,” said the Count. “I admit to you my most painful torture is to compare you, for there is nothing in the world that resembles you.”(Dumas 495). It is shown that not only the Count views himself as sadistic, but even to others, he is heinous. The Count of Monte Cristo’s sacrilegious characteristics such as reprisals, evil keenness, the misrepresentation of himself, and judgment dispositions, represent him to be an agnostic. For one …show more content…
Whenever someone disrespects the Count his answer is to kill the person,”I will kill him tomorrow morning before ten o'clock.” “But his father loves him so much!” “Don't tell me that or I’ll make him suffer” (Dumas 372). It is given that the Count of Monte Cristo has a heart full of evil and he has an intention to pursue his devilish works. Confirmed from Edgell, Agnostics are in the category that receives the most negative responses. That is why when Maximilien gave the Count a reason to allow Albert to live he denied it with a negative response. Correspondingly, leading up to the duel between the Count and Albert the Count has a dark image, “ I’m a living guarantee, each of us has blood in his veins which the other is eager to shed. Tomorrow morning I will have seen the color of his blood” (Dumas 373). What the Count of Monte Cristo plans to do is disgraceful to God and he refuses to forgive Albert and move forward. The Count is constantly pulling himself away from God and abusing the name of God. Ultimately, the Count of Monte Cristo is far away from God and he will hold on to his sinful …show more content…
The Count began to tell Mercedes about the start of his outrageous experiences, “I accustomed my body to the most vigorous exercises and my soul to the most violent shocks; I taught my arm to kill, my eyes to watch suffering and my lips to smile at the most terrible sights; from the kind and forgiving man I had once been” (Dumas 495). From that explanation the Count chooses to be wicked, he does not choose forgiveness and love to anyone but suffering. The Count of Monte Cristo’s only answer is to use violence to get back at his betrayers. God wants us to love our brothers and sisters just as he loves us. From 1 John 4:8, he who does not love does not know God, for God is love. In like manner, the Count expresses his personal problems,”I felt myself driven like a cloud of fire descending from heaven to destroy an accursed city. Loaded my weapons and prepared every means of attack and defense” (Dumas 495). The Count of Monte Cristo acts very profanely and irreligious. Not only what he mentioned was negative, but it shows that he choose hell over heaven. In order for the Count of Monte Cristo to believe in God, he needs to express God’s love because it is