How to Escape from Lockdown
Or reinvent yourself as The Count of Monte Cristo.
Sometimes we need to lose everything to begin living everything.
Edmundo Dantès is at the highest point of his life and career at the beginning of the novel The Count of Montecristo. He is successful, in every meaning the word has in modern life.
Money, work, a fiancée, many and great friends, in today’s sense of “friends” — Facebook and LinkedIn kind of friends — are some of the elements of his success.
But Dantès’ naiveness will prevent him from seeing the web of jealousy, envy, and betrayal behind him. As we know, he will lose everything after being deceived. Accused of a crime he didn’t commit, he is dispossessed of his fortune and sent to prison.
Like Job’s story — the biblical character tested by God — all the faith and courage of Alexandre Dumas’ character will be tested suffering illness, punishment, loss, hunger, and dispossession in the prison at Château d’If.
Without hope, Edmundo Dantès loses the will to live in prison and plans suicide as an alternative to escape after six years of imprisonment. But fate hasn’t finished testing him, and he fails in his attempt. As a new punishment, he’s sent to the worst cell in the worst prison: the madness’s dungeon.
