Possible a pain equivalent to the one inflicted on me. Return for a slow, deep, infinite, eternal pain, I should return as nearly as Physical exercise and long experience of danger, I should be more or lessĬertain of killing my opponent,” the Count of Monte Cristo declares. The more merrily for knowing that, thanks to the skills I have acquired in all Should fight a duel for a trifle, an insult, a contradiction, a slap – and all Their quest for revenge by becoming experts in the art of swordplay, fire arms Their respective incarcerations, both Amanda Clarke and Edmond Dantès delay Information is false in both instances, Danglers and Harmon lose a substantialĪmount of their fortunes in the aftermath. Into believing that Nolan Ross is about to bestow a lucrative contract with aĬhinese smart phone manufacturer. Greed of both men play a prominent role in their takedown by the Count of MonteĬristo and Emily Thorne – Monte Cristo bribes a telegraph worker to send aįalse message about political turmoil in Spain, while Thorne misleads Harmon Obtained knowledge regarding a pending corporate merger to build his own On Revenge, hedge fund operator Bill Harmon leveraged illegally Information provided by his wife’s government official lover to acquire hisįortune. Instance, while federal prosecutor Tom Kingsly becomes a United States Senatorįollowing the conviction of David Clarke.ĭanglers, meanwhile, is an extremely wealthy banker who used privileged Imprisonment, is able to rise to the position of Deputy Minister of France, for Standing drive the prosecuting attorneys, financial bankers and aristocrats of nineteenthĬentury France in the same manner that they motivate their modern dayĭe Villefort, the man most responsible for sending Edmond Dantès to his island Well as their motives – are very similar in nature. Narratives, the main conspirators who framed Edmond Dantès and David Clarke – as The specific crimes may differ due to the 200 years that separate their respective Thus enemies of the state, sentenced to life imprisonment with no chance of Terrorist organization that was responsible for the downing of Flight 197 and Meanwhile, is charged with the twenty-first century equivalent by financing a Triumphant, albeit brief, return to France in 1815. The exiled Napoleon Bonaparte and orchestrating the former emperor’s Treason in their respective eras and locales. Returns to the Southampton of her youth in order to extract vengeance on thoseĬrimes that both Edmond Dantès and David Clarke are accused of amount to
The wealthy Emily Thorne, plots her own strategy for revenge and eventually Amanda Clark goes on to change her persona into Not only is her father now dead but innocent as well.Īlso discovers that she has inherited a secret fortune from billionaire Years herself in a juvenile institution, Clarke is emancipated and finds that Revenge, it is the father of eight-year-old Amanda Clarke that isīetrayed and likewise convicted of a crime he did not commit. After years of careful planning, he then returns to his nativeįrance and enacts an elaborate plot against those responsible for his With wealth beyond his imagination, Dantès transforms himself into the Count of Imprisonment and finds a lost treasure on the uninhabited isle of Monte Cristo,Ī fortune that the now deceased Faria had originally located. Years locked away under the harshest of conditions, Edmond Dantès escapes his Inmate named Faria who takes Dantès under his wings. Solitary confinement on the island prison of Chateau d’If, he meets a fellow Small group of friends and framed for a crime he did not commit. The Count of Monte Cristo, the youthful Edmond Dantès is betrayed by a
Of revenge, and its inspiration and influence on the television series is Alexandre Dumas’ timeless masterpiece is the ultimate tell Revenge actually extend to the literature of the 1800s and The Count Wealth and privilege evade the Southampton of Revenge in much the same way that it did in California and Texas on those shows of the past, with plenty of greed, betrayal and ambition thrown in for good measure.īeing an entry into a genre with such a strong tradition, however, the roots of The ABC drama Revenge is a prime time soap opera in the tradition of such classic 1980s fare as Dallas, Knots Landing and Falcon Crest.