Count of Monte Cristo: Edmond Essay

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Caderousse does nothing to prevent an innocent man from being accused. He has only a superficial role as part of the plot to frame the young man, and does not profit from it because of his incompetence and addiction. He even understands, however dimly, that Dantes will be able to take revenge, should the plot be discovered. When "one gets out of prison,' said Caderousse, who, with what sense was left him, listened eagerly to the conversation, 'and when one gets out and one's name is Edmond Dantes, one seeks revenge'" (Chapter 4). Caderousse eventually meets an untimely end, after murdering a man to whom he sold the jewel the Dantes deliberately gave to him, because Dantes knew that Caderousse's temper would result in the drunkard's destruction.

Villefort is perhaps the most complex character in The Count of Monte Cristo. At first, he states that he believes that Dantes is innocent, showing that he is capable of perceiving evidence in a logical rather than an emotional manner. However, the crown prosecutor is also cowardly. He fears that if he protects Dantes, he will suffer political repercussions. He decides to destroy all exculpating evidence because the letter Dantes is supposed to deliver is addressed to Villefort's father.

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This could implicate Villefort as a supporter of Bonaparte by association. Villefort represents the failure of legal justice, and its self-interested quality. Dantes admits that he is consumed with hatred for the man: "I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world is to recompense and punish," he tells Villefort, when he meets the man responsible for his imprisonment face-to-face once again (Chapter 49).

These three men represent different facets of the nature of vengeance and redemption. Dantes redeems the fortunes of Morrel, as Morrel's faith in Dantes held strong, even when Dantes was dead to the world in prison. To Caderousse who washed his hands of his responsibility to his friend, like Pontius Pilate did to Jesus, Dantes gives a rope in the form of a diamond by which the drunken man may hang himself. And finally, against Villefort, Dantes turns the full rage of his revenge, as Villefort used his position as prosecutor to protect himself, rather than….....

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