Count of Monte Cristo

The corpse of Madame De Villefort lay lifelessly across the doorway leading to the room in which Edouard’s lifeless body resided. With tears in his eyes, the miserable Monsieur De Villefort revealed the sorrowful scene to Dantes. After beholding the results of his vengeance, “ [he] became pale at the horrible sight, he felt he had passed beyond the bounds of vengeance…. And could no longer say “God is for and with me”. Dumas exhibits the theme of loyalty and divine intervention throughout his book , The Count of Monte Cristo. He displays these themes with his expert skill of writing, leaving the reader entangled even at the end. Dumas reveals a theme of loyalty by showing that Dantes was still loyal to Mercedes even though she married his enemy, Fernand. When Mercedes pleaded Dantes not to kill her son Albert, he obeyed her even though his mind was clouded by vengeance. Dante’s loyalty to Mercedes was proven true when she broke his will for vengeance “will a word” and stopped his revenge which he was about to unleash on Albert. In order to counter his hatred, Dantes “called up his memories to support his hatred”, by doing that he remembered how loyal he was to Mercedes and how he obeyed her every command. Dantes held back his anger and displayed a trait of loyalty that was thought to be forgotten after his imprisonment. In addition to the story, Dumas skillfully inserts the theme of divine intervention by making the events seem like a coincidence, but making the reader doubt it as divine intervention. During Dante’s imprisonment, he met a fellow prisoner by the name of Abbe Farria. During his final moments on earth, he made sure that all of his wealth “belongs to Dantes” and left the world. In this case, the event might seem like a pure coincidence, but it may be too much of a coincidence making the reader doubt it as divine intervention. With Dumas’s master skill of writing, he camouflaged this theme into his novel as if they