Chapter 111
'Expiation' — the Count finds Edouard dead, kneels in horror, and questions whether he has gone too far. The moment that makes the novel morally complex rather than triumphalist.
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From The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The death of Villefort's innocent son shakes the Count's certainty in his divine mission, the novel's pivotal moral crisis.
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