- Revenge is a very destructive force that eats people up from the inside.
- [Priest] Do you wish to be absolved of your sins, my son?
- I want justice. That is all I want.
- Through his years in prison, Edmond becomes very vengeful and decides that he will escape and right the wrongs that have been forced upon him.
- I've been dreaming of revenge.
- Just the trauma of being in prison for 15 years is enough to drive a man insane. But like I think to be so driven by revenge and losing all sort of sense of feelings and needing to kind of block those feelings out in order to commit fully to this vengeful journey to hunt down those who put him in prison.
- The vengeance I will deliver will equal the crime. God cannot grant me justice in Providence, then surely I must achieve it by my own means.
- It's interesting that the way Edmond Dantes justifies his revenge is that he kind of believe in providence. And if that does not happen, if destiny does not happen, mankind must do it himself. And that's his explanation why he's allowed to destroy people.
- You are consumed by this.
- He is so determined and so set on his goals, he'll do anything to achieve it.
- Go, do what you have to do. I don't care what it takes.
- He is destroyed by the obsession of revenge.
- That element about the destructive nature of not forgiving, of carrying the burden of revenge or desire for revenge, which is a highway to nowhere.
- The lesson to sort of take away from this is that sometimes your goals get in the way of your relationships and like your human nature, you know, to feel guilt or to feel any sense of love.
- And every day of those 15 years, I renewed the vow of vengeance I made on the first day. By being that vengeful, that angry, that driven by hate, you lose love and you lose hope, and you lose all sense of feeling. It's definitely a big takeaway for me.
