Banger of a chapter! I did not see any of this coming!

1) Obviously, Abbé Faria had to die for Dantès’ escape to be possible physically; did he also have to die for Dantès’ escape to be possible spiritually? Is he a Jesus figure?

2) The doubling of characters takes on a physical dimension in this chapter; does the interchangeability of Dantès’ and Faria’s bodies reflect an interchangeability of their minds?

3) We’ve been trapped in prison with Dantès for so many chapters and so many years… did you feel it viscerally when Dantès finally emerged into the fresh, cold air outside the Château d’If?

Final sentence of chapter:

”The sea is the graveyard of the Château d’If.”

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