1. to dig out of the prison, but miscalculates and, instead, digs through to Dantès's cell. Nevertheless, he is thrilled to be with another man and teach Dantès all he knows. As they work together to tunnel out of the prison, the priest teaches the uneducated Edmond mathematics, history, languages, and etiquette. While they work, the abbé also helps Dantès deduce what were the motives of the treacherous men who implicated him, but he regrets having done so when he realizes that Dantès lives for revenge after his discovery. 
   Unfortunately, the old abbé grows weak and dies in the fourteenth year of Dantès's imprisonment. Before he dies, he tells Edmund of a fantastic treasure that is buried on the isle of Monte Cristo. After the ailing abbé dies, the turnkeys enclose him in a heavy sack that they sew closed. They leave the cell and plan to hurl the dead man into the sea the next morning. Edmund goes through his passageway to the abbé's cell and switches places with him, sewing himself into the sack. The next morning, he is tossed into the sea. Long accustomed to swimming and holding his breath, he cuts through the stitches he made and swims up to the surface. From there, he swims to an inlet in the bay with which he is familiar because of his experiences on the sea.
2. A ship picks him up. The sailors recognize him as a prisoner, but Edmund tells them he knows smugglers sail around the area they are in, so they decide to ask him to join them. Later, by a stroke of luck, the smugglers sail near the island of Monte Carlo and land there. While the men are exploring, Dantès feigns an injury to his leg; he persuades the others to go on and then pick him up on their way back from a smuggling rendezvous. In the meantime, Dantès discovers the cave in which the treasure is hidden. It is a massive chest with three compartments containing a vast wealth of jewels. Edmund stuffs his pockets and conceals his booty from the smugglers when they return; aboard ship, he listens as they boast of what they have stolen. Dantès gets off at a town called Leghorn where he sells his jewels to a dealer.
   It is with this new wealth that Edmund Dantès transforms himself into several characters. After he retrieves the chest, Dantès later buys himself a title and begins his deliberate and elaborate plan to avenge himself against his enemies as the Count of Monte Cristo.

Edmond Dantes from Dumas's Count of Monte Cristo shares many similarities with Andy Dufresne from Stephen King's novella, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption (the movie version is simply entitled The Shawshank Redemption).  Like Dantes, Andy is wronged by someone very close to him--his wife.  When Andy is found near the scene of his wife's and her lover's murders, he is arrested, charged, and convicted.  He is sentenced to prison for the rest of his life (like Dantes), and it is unclear if he committed the crime.

While in prison, Andy meets a wise old confidant (Red) just like Dantes makes contact with and befriends Abbe Faria in the cell next to him. Both men escape from prison--Dantes near the beginning of the novel and Andy near the end of the novella.

Another similarity is that Andy and Dantes seek revenge upon those who wronged them.  While Dantes's desire for revenge is certainly more pronounced than Andy's, both men seek to right not only the injustices that they have experienced but also the injustices that others have faced.

At the end of both tales, the protagonists realize that revenge isn't everything.  They help their new loyal friends and remain wealthy enough to live in peace in exotic locations.