Edmond Dantes Quotes

“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you” (Dumas 172). This quote really does summarize Edmond Dantes. One moment he's walking high, in another moment he is in jail, then he is free and out plotting his revenge against his three enemies. Edmond Dantes is a man of many faces, and disguises. He is Edmond, The Count of Monte Cristo, the Abbe Busoni, and Sinbad the Sailor. Edmond Dantes was a good and honorable man, but the actions of Villefort, Danglars, and Morcerf made him a cold man, set only on revenge.

Edmond Dantes was an honorable, good man before he was taken and imprisoned on the day of his wedding. He had just returned from a voyage on a ship he was working on for whom the captain had died on the voyage. “it seems to me that a sailor needs not be so old as you say, Danglars, to understand his business, for our friend Edmond seems to understand it thoroughly, and not to require instruction from anyone. (Dumas 21)”. Edmond Dantes was a man who had a lot going for him at such a young age, he
Then because he is wrongfully accused by two men and used by another to further his political career while he is left to rot in the worst prison in France. Edmond then makes his escape and becomes the all powerful Count of Monte Cristo. Edmond is a changed man by the time that he comes out of the prison. “He is a man set on revenge, one who has planned meticulously what he will do, and how he will do it.(Taylor)” Edmond Dantes goes through a metamorphosis or something to this effect during the book. He goes from good, to cold, harsh, unforgiving. Most importantly, it is his thirst for revenge that changes Edmond