Though of questionable morality, Dantes' eventual desire to succeed in achieving revenge is instilled and made feasible by his mentor's guiding hand and by the hope which is introduces into him.

And it is only in Faria's death that his teachings begin to manifest as aspects of a real future, not for the impertinently youthful Dante's, now dead after year's of captivity, but for the inexorably patient and newly emergent Count of Monte Cristo. After an isolation from society, and in particular from those to whom he owed retribution, the Count returns to France with an iconoclastic knowledge of mathematics, science, philosophy and politics, all underscored by a stony and almost inhuman patiencee. In addition, he has the money with which to accomplish all of his aims in each of these disciplines. It is the steady precision and calculating patience which his mentor has given to him in order to...
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