9.What is the counts main goal; purpose?

Edmund only has a few goals; to get revenge on all of the men who have led him to his confinement, and to renew his relationship with Mercedes so they can finally wed and be together.

During his fourteen years imprisonment in the Château d'If, where Edmond Dantes is falsely imprisoned, he vows to get out and revenge against all the people that have done him and his family wrong.