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The Inspector Listens (The Count of Monte Cristo, Chapter 14 – Part 3)
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Dantès finally gets his chance to speak—but the system is deaf.
In this powerful moment, Dantès springs from the shadows, not in anger but in desperate hope. He performs sanity. He pleads for logic. But to the inspector, he’s just another case study. Dumas paints a brutal portrait of bureaucracy at its most indifferent: the metrics are fear and food, not justice or truth.
Topics Covered:
•Dantès’ performance of sanity and humility
•The inspector’s twisted logic and observational detachment
•Charenton as a literary and historical reference
•The system’s failure to hear a cry for justice
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