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The Iron Handle (The Count of Monte Cristo, Chapter 15 – Part 10)
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No weapons. No tools. Just wit.
Dantès is halted by the rough stone of his prison wall—until he seizes on a new idea. He needs an iron tool. His jug is broken, his nails are useless—but the soup comes in a shared iron saucepan. If he can only separate the handle…
This is where escape begins to resemble invention: every item is repurposed, every motion calculated. In this passage, Dantès stops being a victim of fate and becomes an engineer of it.
Topics Covered:
•The transformation of despair into ingenuity
•Iron as a symbol of prison and progress
•The logic of tool acquisition in escape literature
•The pivot from emotional paralysis to tactical focus
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