Rachel’s Reviews > The Count of Monte Cristo > Status Update

"[M]isfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human mind."

"[I]nstead of shedding tears as at the fictitious tale of woe produced at a theatre, you behold in a law-court a case of real and genuine distress -- a drama of life. The prisoner whom you there see pale, agitated, and alarmed, instead of... going home to sup peacefully with his family, and then retiring to rest... is
removed from your sight merely to be reconducted
to his prison and delivered up to the executioner."