The life of a man who will definitely take revenge I read this work as a teenager. I remember how much I was drawn into this book, especially the first part of it, when with each page you are more and more amazed. How is that? How does this happen to a person? He is not guilty of anything, but he is quickly and simply sent to certain death behind bars. There was no limit to my indignation (to put it mildly). But then Dumas reveals his hero, his thirst for life, the desire to return from the terrible world where he found himself and figure everything out. Coolly, unhurriedly examine all aspects of his arrest, understand who the culprit is, make sure that the person has not improved and give him a tough answer, show him how it is to suffer. The author perfectly demonstrates how much a person can change, both internally and externally. After all, in fact, Dantes went to prison, but a completely different person got out of there, a new personality in the body of Edmond Dantes. And this rebirth is accompanied by the receipt of wealth, which reveals to the world the new personality of Monte Cristo. And he coolly, without a shadow of doubt, goes to his goal — to unwind the tangle of conspiracies against his former personality and deal a decisive blow to each of his abusers. Monte Cristo waited and prepared for many years for his revenge, while the traitors lived and lived, enjoyed new victories and did not even think that the fate of revenge could overtake them. In fact, they lived quietly all these years, while Dantes seemed to condemn himself to this preparation. It seems that these years can be written into his inner imprisonment, the expectation of revenge. Is it worth it? This is a controversial issue for me. Dumas presented the readers with a wonderful work. It's dynamic and interesting, but the part that was especially interesting to me was while the main character was in prison. Then somehow it became more boring and as if the work itself had changed the tempo, so to speak. But without a doubt, this is a deep story not just about a man's revenge on his executioners. This is a story about the rebirth of a personality, the coolness of a detective inside a hero, and of course such a work makes everyone think about how a person's actions can return to him even decades later. 8 out of 10