The Count of Monte Cristo Summary

[Alex]

The novel is about a very skilled sailer named Edmond Dantes who has a promising future. Even though Dantes is a harmless character with hopes of Success, three antagonists in the novel still end up causing Dante's downfall. These character's include Danglars who is jealous that Dantes was promised the captain's position instead of him, Fernand Mondego who is jealous that Mercedes is in love with Dantes instead of him, Caderousse who is just an unprincipled neighbor, and Villefort who is a prosecutor that knows Dantes has information that can ruin his career.The falling action seems to occur when Dantes goes to prison and many years go by, but then he escapes and everything changes. After Dantes escapes from prison, and is presumed dead, he changes his identity and takes on the name The Count of Monte Cristo, giving birth to a whole new character. There are very few similarities between Dantes and Monte Cristo. Dantes was on the verge of poverty, very easy going, and caring for others; Monte Cristo was very manipulative, extremlely rich, and had absolutley no respect for man. Dantes eventually picks apart the lives of the three men that had betrayed him all in a different manner. Good vs. evil plays a big role in Dante's (Monte Cristo) character. Dantes knows that killing is wrong but feels that it is all right since the men he is killing killed his former life(an eye for an eye). What's ironic about Monte Cristo is that even though he is a killer, he is a very big believer in God, and feels that God is on his side through all the violence. I liked the ending of the novel because after finding out that Mercedes son was Edmond's, not Fernand's, a sword fight occures in which Dantes kills Fernand bringing an end to the violence.

[Lauren-Jane]

I'm fairly certain that Mercedes' son was not Edmond's. Is that not just in the film version?

[Msadventure]

No, not just in the film version. That is straight from the book.

[Michel]

Not in the version I just read (free eBook on my Kobo ereader). I agree with Lauren-Jane that was in the film version.

[Richard]

can't say i recall mercedes son being edmonds in the book i read either

the bigger question is why you posted a summary?

[Kate]

I agree with the son not being Edmond's, and I don't remember Fernand dying that way. I've never seen the movie, so I don't know if that is what happened in the movie. I think Fernand had shot himself in the book.

[Ashley]

This book is my favorite of all time, and the reason I decided to right a book of my own that dealt with revenge in a modern setting!

As you read and watch the descent of Edmond's sanity as eventually, his nightmarish prison stint gives him plenty of time to let his anger take over and control his mind, you want him to succeed! You want him to gain the revenge, the "upper hand" and dispense his own human justice. Especially (at least for me) to Fernand.

[Will]

Hahaha I love how this is a summary of the movie, not the book.

[Karl]

What's the point of this summary?

[Will]

Especially since it isn't accurate, and states such ridiculous fallacies such as "Monte Cristo was very manipulative, extremlely rich, and had absolutley no respect for man" which isn't true at all.