The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo is an interesting tale about a sailor named Dantes who changes his whole
persona in order to get back at his enemies. Dantes becomes a number of different people in order to
carry out his plans. The changes Dantes went through made his different stages as a sailor and later
as a mastermind of vengeance seem like day and night. Although Dantes seems very naïve at the
beginning of the story, he becomes very sharp during his stay in jail. By the amount of detail and
preciseness in his plans, Dantes as the Count can be looked as a mastermind. Much of Dantes'
knowledge comes from the old, thought to be crazy, priest named Faria that taught him in prison. Faria
was also responsible for much of Dantes character change due to his great power of reasoning.
Because Faria had given him a treasure and a hunger for vengeance, Dantes was willing and had
enough money and power to carry out revenge on his enemies.