The main content of each chapter of The Count of Monte Cristo

Chapter 1: Arrival at the Port of Marseille: It tells the story of the protagonist Edmond returning home after a long voyage. At the same time, he files a lawsuit against his first enemy Danglars and Edmund. paved the way for his imprisonment.

Chapter 2 Father and Son: Explains the situation of old Dantes, and writes about Edmund’s beautiful fiancée Mercer Tess at the end.

Chapter 3: The People of Catalan: It describes Edmund and Mercedess who are in love, and also explains how deeply in love with Mercedess Fernand (also known as Mercedess) Cousin) character, Danglars, Fernand and the meeting of Caderousse, a cowardly neighbor of Edmond's.

Chapter 4: Conspiracy: It tells the story of Fernand, under the instigation of Danglars, delivering an informant letter written by Danglars with his left hand.

Chapter 5 The Engagement Banquet: Edmund was arrested at the engagement banquet between himself and Mercedes.

Chapter 6 Acting Prosecutor: It tells the story of the acting prosecutor Villefort who left the party in the middle of his engagement party to try Edmond's case.

Chapter 7 Interrogation: The process of Villefort’s interrogation of Edmund (the case Edmund committed is closely related to Villefort’s future).

Chapter 8: Chateau d'Yves: Edmond was thrown into the darkest prison at the time without his knowledge due to Villefort's promotion of the case.

Chapter 9 Wedding Night: This chapter is a transition, mainly talking about the impact of Edmund's case on everyone.

Chapter 10: The Small Study Room of the Tuileries Palace: It tells the life of King Louis XIV. It is an explanation of the situation, and it also describes the political situation at that time through the King's words.

(The Kings are not completely unaware of Napoleon’s return to the throne.

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Chapter 11 The Monster of Corsica: Because of the Trial of Egypt In Demont's case, Villefort, who received accurate information, reported to the king in order to gain a future (Villefort's father supported Napoleon, which was the opposite of his son's political stance).

Chapter 12 Laozi and Son: Describing Villefort’s father, Mr. Noirtier (Noirtier is quite handsome and very calm).

Chapter 13: One Hundred Days: It tells the story of Edmund’s well-meaning boss, Morel, who fell into Villefort’s trick and exaggerated Edmund’s contribution, and also roughly described the country at that time. situation (old Tangtès died).

Chapter 14: Angry Prisoners and Crazy Prisoners: It introduces Edmond, who almost went crazy because of his long prison life, and his neighbor, Father Faria (the priest is a fierce man), also paved the way for subsequent huge financial reports.

Chapter 15 No. 34 and No. 27: Dantes decided to escape from prison and found tools to dig up the soil on the surface of the prison, meeting the priest for the first time.

Chapter 16: An Italian Scholar: Edmund’s conversation with Faria, a preliminary description of Faria’s wisdom (a very powerful priest, an extremely awesome person).

Chapter 17 The Priest’s Cell: A further description of the priest’s wisdom. The priest also easily revealed the mystery of Edmund’s unjust imprisonment. The teacher-student friendship between Edmund and the priest grew day by day. , the two of them dug a tunnel to escape from prison. When they were about to escape from prison, the priest suffered from a stubborn disease (similar to a stroke, which will cause death in the third attack). Edmund decided to stay and take care of the priest, which moved the priest very much. .

Chapter 18 Treasure: The priest introduced Edmund to a huge treasure and gave Edmund the right to use it (this section is very exciting, using a famous historical story, it is worth Take a look).

Chapter 19 The third onset of illness The priest fell ill for the third time. Edmund tried his best to save him, but to no avail, and the priest died.

Chapter 20 The Cemetery of the Castle of Ifes Edmund made a desperate move and decided to pretend to be a dead man to escape. Unexpectedly, the cemetery of the Castle of Ifs was the sea and was thrown into the sea during the storm.

Chapter 21 The story of Edmund of Tiburan Island who desperately swam to a nearby desert island and pretended to be a crew member who died in the storm and was rescued by a smuggling ship.

Chapter 22: The Smuggler: Edmund’s life on the smuggling ship, by the way, shows that Edmund has changed so much that he can no longer even recognize himself.

Chapter 23: Monte Cristo Island: The smuggling ship set the smuggling location on Monte Cristo Island. Edmund pretended to be injured and stayed on the island alone.

Chapter 24 Glorious: The story of Edmund’s treasure hunt in children’s shoes.

Chapter 25 Stranger: Edmund disguises himself as someone else and returns to his hometown to visit.

Chapter 26 The Inn at the Pont Gard: Earl Edmund became a priest and obtained all his old friends (including Danglars, Fernand, Mercédès...) the current situation (the price is fifty thousand francs).

Chapter 27 Narration: Caderousse tells the truth.

Chapter 28 Prison Files: Edmund bought out all the debts of Morel, who was heavily in debt, and obtained the informant letter from that year.

Chapter 29 Morel Company: Old Morel insisted on integrity but was on the verge of bankruptcy. The last ship, the Pharaoh, also sank. The crew described the specific circumstances of the sinking. Britain dressed up as Edmund People came to ask for debts, and the last date for repayment was set on September 5th. If the debts could not be repaid, the company would go bankrupt.

Chapter 30, September 5: Morel’s son Maximilian appears and learns that Morel plans to commit suicide to protect his honor, but in the end everyone is happy and the Pharaoh can enter the port (fact Above, Edmund used his own financial resources to rebuild a Pharaoh).

Chapter 31 Italy - Sinbad the Sailor: The various adventures of Fernando's son Albert's friend Franz on the Island of Monte Cristo (this chapter is quite interesting), Sinbad the Sailor (Egyptian) The incarnation of Demon, the Count of Monte Cristo) appears and is described for the first time.

Chapter 32: Waking up from a dream: It tells about the sharp contrast between reality after Franz wakes up and last night, and also explains that he and Albert are preparing to go to Rome for the Carnival (but No carriage), setting the stage for the Count of Monte Cristo to "lend a helping hand" to them in the future.

Chapter 33: Roman Robbers: The hotel owner introduces the most famous robber at the time, Luchi Wang Ba, which foreshadows Albert's subsequent kidnapping.

Chapter 34: Revealed: Franz bumps into the meeting between Count of Monte Cristo and Lucky Wangba, and others' comments on a mysterious man (that is, Count of Monte Cristo) when they go to the theater The description of Monte Cristo increased the mystery of Monte Cristo. At the same time, Monte Cristo extended an invitation to them that night.

Chapter 35: Execution by Crushing: It is about Monte Cristo, Albert and Franz watching the execution. Albert and Franz were completely frightened, but Monte Cristo was okay and showed his body. My own research on the death penalty has added to the mystery.