Ultimate Bliss
"Only someone who has suffered the deepest misfortune is capable of experiencing the heights of felicity" (Dumas 1077). The greatest joys, the heights of felicity, do not come out of revenge. Revenge is a natural impulse to injustice where one can be obsessively consumed. It returns lonely, painful suffering. One must keep hope alive when things become more dreadful than a disastrous nightmare. Hope to a better end. To justice - that fate will punish those well deserving and reward those well deserved. The heights of felicity do not blossom out of revenge - but they can come from forgiveness and salvation. Alexandre Dumas wrote about a man, whose life is shattered, bent on revenge in The Count of Monte Cristo; Martin Campbell directed a movie about lost love and vengeance in The Mask of Zorro; and Hope wrote a poem called Aware of a Sunnier Side about an alternative to revenge. These three works illustrate the meaning of happiness. Ultimate bliss from ultimate despair. People must see how bad things can get to really appreciate how precious their happiness is. The world is filled with ungrateful selfish people. The populace is blind to their true blessings and gold fortunes of famil
It is only in the end when he is about to take his own life does he appreciate his blessings. To forgive is to open up the heart and let go of the pain. She realizes she is searching for resolve, not revenge. Dantes suffers so much that he is blind to Haydee's love. "Maximilien, you must needs have wished to die, to know how good it is to live" (Dumas 1077). She will take her own life if Dantes does, for she has nothing to live for without him. In this, Dantes' letter to Maximilien, he writes of himself, the man who thought himself like God. Monte Cristo now believes God wishes punishment upon him and prepares to kill himself alongside Maximilien. This powerful message explains all in one of the Count's profound grief, his motives, and his love of life.
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