When a hero massacres many innocent people, what does that make him? The idea of ​​good or evil rests on a single word, that word being morality. Morality itself is only a human conception and innovation. In general, morality is “the human attempt to define what is right and wrong in our actions and thoughts, and what is right and wrong in our being. » (Jones, 2) But what makes an action, an object or a person good or bad? ? Pleasure, happiness, or any other good feeling, or lack of feeling, is what makes something moral. Even if there are no written and established moral rules; the strong point of moral codes around the world. If an action or person upsets a group, it is considered immoral. An example could be shown with this quote: "From a certain point of view, Abe's act is immoral because (For a clearer explanation in this essay, Edmond Dantès refers to Edmond Dantès and what it would later become a novel after his symbolic death in prison, the Count of Monte Cristo.) In the action of his revenge, the murder of Caderousse's wife, Monsieur le Marquis de Saint-Méran and Madame la Marquise de Saint Méran , Héloïse de Villefort, and Barrois perform without any Dantès remorse. Most of these victims had nothing directly to do with the Dantes. They were just pawns in his little game of revenge. “The problem of innocent suffering does not concern Monte Cristo, even if his revenge devastates entire families. » (Aubrey 2) Even if he is wrongly sent to prison, he should not be able to ruin so many lives for his act of revenge. Also, throughout the book, he confuses his desire for revenge and repeatedly states that his revenge is for justice. “Revenge consists primarily of “acting out” (usually through violence) distinctly negative emotions. Revenge is, by nature, personal; justice is impersonal, impartial and is both a social and legal phenomenon. (Seltzer 1) Revenge is the thing that clouds his morals the most, and the fact that he even thinks he's like God for most of the story shows how morally out of touch he is. "Dantes puts himself in a divine position to exercise it fully. Dorian Gray was written to represent all the pleasures deemed immoral in their time, and the one most associated with it is homosexuality. "The Picture of Dorian Gray would recognize the way in which all of its symbolic figurations – sexual, religious and philosophical – are culturally and historically conditioned, but it would also identify the way in which these culturally conditioned figurations organize the elementary, biologically based dispositions of human nature. Monte Cristo does not seem to have such a moral foundation, but it nevertheless has the general idea, which deals with the idea of ​​revenge and why it should not be pursued, or even the relationships with God in Christianity. The major difference between the outcome of the two characters, Dorian Gray and Edmond Dantes, is that although they both represent Christian guilt and the characters somehow have shameful feelings about their actions, Dantes has was able to repent and fully rejoice in his guilt. Dorian was not. Dorian felt like he was already doing badly since the incident with Sybil, and since he wasn't able to fully apologize with his soul, those bad feelings simply pent up until they came to him. eat alive. “Wilde felt like it was possible to be spiritual and religious, but he found himself unable to achieve this. » (Pearce,