Edmond Dantés: Guilty Or Harmful Defense?

Vengeful Defense
Members of the jury, may I have your ears? Thank you for listening to and respecting my arguments. As you know, I am the defense attorney representing Edmond Dantés, who has been charged with murder. Before you deliver the final verdict, let me remind you why Edmond Dantés is irreproachable in this court and why the prosecution is accusing unjustly.
To begin, the prosecution focuses on the fact that Edmond Dantés escaped from jail, supplied poisons, and somehow caused the deaths of a few people. The prosecution, in this case, is wrong. Monsieur Dantés did escape from the Chateau d’If, the prison he was in for fourteen years. Yet, he was wrongly imprisoned by those he later got vengeance on. For Monsieur Dantés, being thrown
They created a plot to throw him in jail and off his high horse of good luck. Dantés was about to get married to his true love, Mercédės, and become captain of the Pharaon, the Morrel ship he worked on. When Baron Danglars begins to whip up his plot to throw my client in jail, he thinks to himself, “By God! That letter gives me an idea, an excellent idea! Ah, Dantés, my friend, you’re not yet entered in the Pharaon’s log as number one!” (Dumas 17). He was beginning to think of how to get rid of Monsieur Dantés. Sadly, the first thing that came to mind was to use the letter from Napoleon that Dantés was to deliver. Supposedly, Dantés was a Bonapartist. Members of the jury, although this has nothing to do with my arguments, we know that Monsieur Dantés is not a Bonapartist. The goal was to turn the letter against Dantés, his career, and his future. Monsieur Dantés doesn't know why he was thrown in jail. Later, Dantés calls out to Mercédės and his guests, saying, “Don't worry; the mistake will soon be cleared up, probably even before I reach the prison” (Dumas 20). As you can see, Monsieur Dantés believes himself to be innocent. Even though the prosecution will tell the jury that my client escaped out of prison, he did so to save himself and his good name. When Monsieur Morrel answers the door
When he revealed his true persona to General Fernand Mondego, “The general stared at the terrible apparition in silence. Then, leaning against the wall, he slowly slid along it to the door and backed out of the room, uttering only this piercing terror-stricken cry: ‘Edmond Dantés!’” (Dumas 394). Fernand’s emotions show that he never knew that Dantés was really the Count of Monte Cristo. This may show that even Monsieur Dantés didn't know that he was acting as the Count of Monte Cristo. At one point, when Dantés speaks to Mercédės, she says to him, “the fact that you're still alive and that I've seen you again proves there's a God above us” (Dumas 378). Therefore, Mercédės believes that Dantés was never the Count of Monte Cristo, but was always Dantés. This must prove to the jury that even those closest to him believe that he never changed. However, he had changed in prison, when no one was there to understand. This means that only he could recognize what changes he was going through, and, unfortunately, he did not. Monsieur Dantés may have caused some deaths during his revenge plots. Before I explain, I will remind the jury that he was insane, and he never killed someone with his own two hands. General Fernand Mondego, Count of Morcerf, committed suicide. We assume he did this because Haydée told us that Fernand was tasked with protecting the Pasha of Yanina, her father,