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The Great Book Review: Is the Count of Monte Cristo hard to read?
It is not an exaggeration to say that I remember almost a few days without eating, drinking, or sleeping to chew; my family thought I was crazy. However, the Count of Monte Cristo is truly a great novel that can be called life-changing, and he has brought infinite spiritual strength to people who have been in trouble or in the doldrums for thousands of years. At the end of the book, Dumas reveals the secret that the real wisdom of mankind is contained in this passage in the book. So what is this passage?
Let 8catsbook lead us into Dumas's Count of Monte Cristo. The young Edmund is a kind and simple sailor because of the outstanding ability of the captain of the ship to become the nail on the next captain. This young man has a bright future and will marry a beautiful fiancée. However, just before the wedding, Edmund was entrusted by the old captain's deathbed, went to see Napoleon on Elba, and helped Napoleon to bring a letter to his cronies, not expecting that this letter would bring his doom. Thus, we also welcome three of Edmund's enemies. The first one is Edmond's love rival Fernand. Fernand is jealous of Edmund's beautiful fiancée, and at the same time, he witnesses the meeting between Edmund and Napoleon, huh, and wants to snitch.
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The second enemy, Tangrail, is an accountant on the same ship. Jealous of Edmund's imminent captaincy, Tangraal and Fernand plotted together to frame Edmund as an envoy of Napoleon's party and wrote the letter in his left hand. On the day of the wedding, Edmond is arrested on the spot. We have a third enemy, Wilford, the prosecutor handling the case. Wilford knew he was innocent, but in good conscience, he sent Edmund to death row; why? Because he finds out that the recipient of the letter is none other than his own father, Edmund is the only one who knows the recipient's life. For personal reasons, trying Wilf burned the letter and simultaneously pushed Edmund into the darkness; this imprisonment is 14 years.
Edmund suffered in prison, and life is worse than death. Furthermore, just one day, a character appeared who changed Edmund's fate: Father Faria. This thin, gray-haired older man from the tunnel turned out to he an old prisoner; the driver escaped prison but accidentally dug in the wrong direction. The jailers call the priest a madman, but he is a wise scholar. After the encounter with the priest, Edmund's heart slowly changes. The original text reads. The young man saw an older man seeking to live with tremendous perseverance, giving him an example of a hundred folds, so he began to ponder and gauge his courage. In order to take revenge, Edmund followed the priest to learn various languages and studies, including learning how to be a gentleman.
However, just as Edmund matures, the priest dies of a stroke. On his deathbed, the priest tells Edmund a secret that there are untold treasures hidden on an island called Monte Cristo. In pain and despair, Edmund saw a ray of hope, and he had a bright idea to make a swap mark, the priest's corpse, and himself switched. When the ancient times from the abyss were thrown into the sea, Edmund broke free from the sack and was freed. However, when he escaped, he learned that at that time, after he was imprisoned, his old father was starved alive because of poverty, and his fiancée had fallen into the arms of his love rival. The three villains who had set him up in prison were now prosperous, with his rival Fernand having the title of Count, his accountant Tangrail becoming a famous banker, and the prosecutor Wilford being promoted to judge. Edmund buried hatred in his heart but did not immediately seek revenge on them, but bided his time.
He found the treasure according to the priest's hints and opened his open life. He made full use of his superpowers, exchanging money for power, bribing kings and courtiers, enlisting smugglers and thieves' gangs, gradually building up his power, and then making a public appearance in high society under the pseudonym of Count of Monte Cristo as a mysterious and elegant gentleman. Of course, he will never forget revenge. How to take advantage of the greed and desire of his enemies so that they can get the punishment they deserve? How to kill and put them to death? The first step of Edmund's revenge plan is to infiltrate the enemy. He designed a trap to kidnap the son of his love rival and pretended to rescue the teenager from the hands of robbers.
Through a series of set-ups, he succeeded in gaining the trust of his enemies, and then he was ready to break them one by one. The Count of Monte Cristo's revenge against his lover is to deprive him of his power. The love rival Fernand once betrayed his trust in governor Ali as a lieutenant general and killed the governor. He also sold the governor's daughter kelp as a slave, fishing for a large sum of money. You, Fernand is not just want power titles? Then let you lose your reputation. Edmund first revealed his crime by other people's hands, let the victim, Kelp, testify in court, and hammered Fernand to death with iron-clad evidence. After the first announcement, his wife and son chose to leave him, and he committed suicide in despair under the blow after discovering the true identity of the Count of Monte Cristo. FIRST treated banker Tanguerre, the Count of Monte Cristo's punishment was to take away his money.
Tangler relied on writing anonymous letters to frame Edmund to take the captain's position and later embezzled military food and stole information to become a millionaire. Don't you Tanglar want money? Then gut your capital little by little. The Count of Monte Cristo used three loan notification letters to tempt Tangraal to open an unlimited account in the bank, then used false information to make the bank lose money and withdraw a large amount of cash from the account, forcing the bank to go bankrupt. On his way to abscond with the money, Tangrail falls into the hands of the Count of Monte Cristo's robber friends again. The robbers starved him half to death and then sold him a meal at a high price of 100,000 francs, squeezing out all his money. He finally began to repent his sins when he was starved. At that moment, the Count of Monte Cristo appeared and made his identity public, and Tangrail was so tortured and frightened that all his hair turned white.
The Count finally gave him 50,000 francs and let him make his way. double kill treated Judge Wilford can also be said to be the biggest enemy. He can even betray his father for his future. His hands were stained with the blood of the Napoleonic party and the general public, climbing to the high position of the chief prosecutor. Let you destroy your family for the sake of your future and bring your illegitimate son to court with your own hands. The Count of Monte Cristo dug up the news that Wilford had attempted to bury his illegitimate son alive and revealed it in public to bring Wilford into disrepute, and then took advantage of Mrs.
Wilford's weakness, which was that he was haunted by the daughter left by Wilford's ex-wife. The Count of Monte Cristo then sends him a recipe for poison, which in turn causes him to poison Wilford's former mother-in-law and servants. After Wilford fled home in haste, he found his wife had already committed suicide with her son in fear. Under great shock, Welford went mad, and his revenge plan ended successfully. Is the Count of Monte Cristo happy now that his revenge is over? Although Edmund said in his mouth that a tooth for a tooth and an eye for an eye, the kindness in his heart did not die out in the 14 years of imprisonment; there are many very touching small details. After he is released from prison to obtain the treasure, the first thing is not revenge but to repay the kindness of the ship owner Morel who had helped himself because of bankruptcy and attempted suicide. Edmund saved and helped him pay off his debts and finance his recovery.
The captain's son was treated like his own son and washed his heart to love. After the defeat of his rival Fernand, his son Albert comes to the Count in anger to fight, and his former lover comes to the Count of Monte Cristo to ask him to spare his son. The Count was persuaded. The duel can only have one survivor. Edmond decided to sacrifice himself, and just when he came to the duel with the determination of certain death, Albert gave up the duel and apologized to Edmond for his father's false accusation back then. The two shook hands in sincere tears. Later, Edmond writes to Albert and gives Albert's mother the 150 Louis gold coins he saved for his wedding when he was 19, burying half of his love and hate in the past.
But revenge and forgiveness are not the true meaning of the book. At the beginning of the book, Panda asks everyone, saying that the real wisdom of humankind is contained in five words. Some students may already know these five words: waiting and hope. The Count of Monte Cristo is not only about revenge; his core spirit speaks of hope. After Edmund was unjustly imprisoned, he also thought of committing suicide by hunger strike, but his longing for his father and his love for his fiancée made him survive the torture in prison. Because he had hope and thought of regaining his freedom one day, he studied hard under the education of a priest. This knowledge allowed him to disguise himself as a nobleman and break into high society.
After the successful escape from prison, Edmund does not rush to revenge, but does research to find out the truth of the year in prison.
He spent nine years preparing to build up his power group to take revenge. With the liver and guts of friends, with loyal servants, without the knowledge of the enemies, the collection of incriminating evidence waiting is an important factor in Edmund to success. Furthermore, the Greek princess Kelp also spent ten years awakening Edmund's painfully tortured heart. Of course, this is another beautiful story. At the novel's end, the Count of Monte Cristo leaves most of his fortune to others while he and the Kelp sail away to a new future full of hope.
He leaves behind a letter. In this world, there is no such thing as happiness or misfortune; there is only a comparison between one situation and another. Only those who have experienced extreme misfortune can taste extreme happiness. Only those who have decided to die can know how good it is to live. The wisdom of human beings is contained in these five words, wait and hope. Live happily, my beloved children. The difference between man and man lies in waiting and hope.
When severely mocked by fate, the person who can fold and stalk and wait in the trough, who can never give up hope and the ability to love, is the real strong one. This quote is a piece of advice to Edmund and Dumas' blessing to his readers. Follow 8CatsBook, and we will tell you a good book every week; if you like this video, remember to like, follow us, and we will see you next time.
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