When a hero massacres many innocents, what does that make the hero? The idea of ​​good or evil is based on one word, that word is morality. Morality itself is only 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 good and bad 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 thereof, is what makes something moral. While there are no fixed, written rules for morality; the strong point of moral codes around the world. If an action or person distresses 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 will later become the novel after his symbolic death in prison, the Count of Monte Cristo.) In act 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 succeed Dantès without remorse. Most of these victims had nothing directly to do with the Dantès. They were just pawns in his little game of revenge. "The problem of innocent suffering does not concern Monte Cristo, even if his revenge brings devastation to entire families." (Aubrey 2) Even if he is unjustly sent to prison, he shouldn't be able to ruin so many lives for his act of revenge. Furthermore, throughout the book, he confuses his desire for revenge and states several times that his revenge is for justice. “Revenge is primarily about “acting out” (typically through violence) markedly 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 God-like for most of the story shows how disconnected he is, morally. “Dantès puts himself in the divine position of exercising completely. Dorian Gray was written to represent all the pleasures deemed immoral in their time, and the one he is most associated with is homosexuality. “The Picture of Dorian Gray would recognize the way in which all of his symbolic figurations – sexual, religious, and philosophical – are culturally and historically conditioned, but it would also identify the way in which those culturally conditioned figurations organize the elemental, biologically rooted arrangements of nature human." (Carroll, 4) The Count of Monte Cristo does not seem to have such a strong moral basis, but he still has a general idea, which deals with the idea of ​​revenge and why it should not be pursued, or even relationships with God in Christianity. However, the main difference in the outcome of the two characters, Dorian Gray and Edmond Dantès, is how, even though they both represent Christian guilt and the characters somehow experience shameful feelings for their actions, Dantès was able to repent and fully wallow in his guilt. Dorian no. Dorian had the impression that he was already feeling bad after the incident with Sybil, and since he was not able to fully apologize to his soul, that bad feeling remained repressed until it devoured him alive. “Wilde had the impression that it was possible to be spiritual and religious, but found himself unable to realize it.” (Perce,