Monster Essays - The Count Of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo is a very powerful book.
So powerful in fact, that was controversial when it was
first released. The Catholic church in France condemned it
because of its powerful message it presented the reader.
This theme was one of revenge and vengeance. Monte Cristo
had two goals- to reward those who were kind to him and his
aging father, and to punish those responsible for his
imprisonment and suffering. For the latter, he plans slow
and painful punishment. To have spent fourteen years barely
subsisting in a dungeon de....
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