study Create an account to start this course today (Chapter 103) When he thinks Valentine is dead, Maximilian wants to take revenge into his own hands. courses that prepare you to earn Your support helps us continue to discover and share incredible kids books! My captivity concentrated all my faculties on a single point. This finally comes full circle near the end of the book when Dantes' revenge mission takes some unintended lives. For the characters in this novel, God is vengeful and all-powerful. 6:14 'Hatred is blind and anger deaf: the one who pours himself a cup of vengeance is likely to drink a bitter draught.' From there, his situation takes a nose dive, to say the least.

5:01 Eventually, they realize that it's much better to let God pursue vengeance than to try to match his power. 'I have been taken by Satan into the highest mountain in the earth, and when there he said to me, 'Child of earth, what wouldst thou have to make thee adore me?' 5:02 Quiz & Worksheet - Concepts in The Count of Monte CristoSelf-Reliance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Transcendental Essay (Chapter 117) These last two quotes from a letter written by Dantes at the end of the novel, sum up his final attitude toward life, happiness, and God. (Chapter 111) These quotes, many chapters apart, mirror the high and low points for Dantes.

Course Navigator 11:06 He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.' When you purchase books using links on our website, Bookroo or its affiliates may receive a small commission (at no added cost to you).

He has sent me for that purpose. 8:47 Dantes starts the story happy: His career is taking off, and he is about to marry a beautiful woman. I am as persevering in the pursuit of my whims as, for example, you are, Monsieur Danglars, in building a railway; or you, Monsieur de Villefort, in condemning a man to death; or you, Monsieur Debray, pacifying a kingdom; you, Monsieur de Château-Renaud, in finding favour with a woman; or you, Monsieur Morrel, in breaking a horse that no one else can ride.“And now,” said the stranger, “farewell, goodness, humanity, gratitude ... Farewell all those feelings that nourish and illuminate the heart! Mark Twain: Biography, Works, and Style as a Regionalist Writer

God, who might have directed the assassin's dagger so as to end your career in a moment, has given you this quarter of an hour for repentance.

Dantes is wrongly jailed near Marseille, in the Château d'If.

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'There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. One must fight to gain it; and, in truth, I do not know what I have done to deserve the good fortune of becoming Mercédès’ husband.” “I have seen the man I loved preparing to become the murderer of my son!” She said these words with such overwhelming grief, in such a desperate voice, that when he heard it a sob rose in the count’s throat. One must fight to gain it.I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.So all my opinions—I would not say political, but private opinions—are confined to three feelings: I love my father, I respect Monsieur Morrel and I adore Mercédès.Misfortune is needed to plumb certain mysterious depths in the understanding of men; pressure is needed to explode the charge. Where you've really come from. 6:37 So, my life is devoted to seeing things that I cannot understand and obtaining things that are impossible to have. He has sent me for that purpose. (Chapter 35) Franz says this early on in the book. 'The most egoistical of all animals, the most personal of all creatures, who cannot believe otherwise than that the earth revolves, the sun shines and death reaps for him alone--an ant, cursing God from the summit of a blade of grass.'

You can test out of the “I cannot think that man is meant to find happiness so easily! It turns out to be pretty prophetic of how the rest of the story is going to go.

Hatred is blind and anger deaf: the one who pours himself a cup of vengeance is likely to drink a bitter draught.”“Yes, if he is clumsy and poor; no, if he is a millionaire and adroit.” He decided it was human hatred and not divine vengeance that had plunged him into this abyss. Edmond spends thirteen years there, then he escapes swimming with the help of a fellow inmate.

All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope.“But, with such an outlook,” Franz told the count, “which makes you judge and executioner in your own case, it would be hard for you to confine yourself to actions that would leave you forever immune to the power of the law. He doomed these unknown men to every torment that his inflamed imagination could devise, while still considering that the most frightful were too mild and, above all, too brief for them: torture was followed by death, and death brought, if not repose, at least an insensibility that resembled it.Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.Happiness is like one of those palaces on an enchanted island, its gates guarded by dragons. Quotes tagged as "the-count-of-monte-cristo" Showing 1-18 of 18 “Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.” ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo Reflect, then, wretched man, and repent. credit-by-exam regardless of age or education level.Not sure what college you want to attend yet?

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