Thursday, April 15, 2010
Entry #3
Dantes was completely pure in heart, he never thought about himself in any way, shape, or form. Through prison though, he became harder, still "good", no doubt about it, but, harder. Revenge is his main, actually, only concern. With millions of francs on his hands to carry out that vengence, i'm not so sure that he'll be able to make it out "good."
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"Completely pure in heart," "never thought about himself"... how can he be obsessed with revenge? Isn't vengeance a personal grievance, feeling that something is owed? Isn't it like greed?
I believe that he was finally exposed to the dark side of humanity and was tainted by it. If you look at the purest child, eventually, he will learn of evil. Never has a human came out unscathed by it, which is what I think the author is trying to illustrate.
Dantes was exposed to the dark side of humanity. never has any human, save one, been unscathed by it's taint. Even the smallest child will eventually know of evil. This is what I think the author is trying to illustrate in the book.
Still, I'm surprised it took so long for him to turn dark. He's what, twenty-something? I think most non-book people learn of(and maybe become) evil around age six.
Why there are two comments saying the same thing, I don't know.
I bet there are people who still are as pure as any human could be at age twenty, however, the fact it is a book does always put doubts in ones mind. Still, he could be obsessed with revenge and still be redeemed. Dantes could turn totally evil and that could be the end of the book, but that's just not q usual book plot, so, if the book goes in a traditional manner, we should be able to say that Dantes will have succomed to evil for the first part of the book and later redeem himself in some heroic act.
How true... in fiction, the main character always turns good eventually. But I do love a good bad guy. (Good bad...?)
I was right, Fernand (who sent him to Chateau d'If) is dead, Mercedes is forgiven (for marrying Fernand), Danglars is going to get his (for sending him to Chateau d'If), and Villeforts entire family is being killed off by his second wife (Badguy because he sent Emond to prison after freeing him to clear his own name). It all goes to the undisputably true statement 'crime never pays.'
Mercedes married someone else? A bad guy? Come on, how unfair!
She married her cousin, so yeah, that's not only disgusting, but wrong in two ways.
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