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Teachers & SchoolsEdmond Dantès is a man of many faces and many disguises. He gives Halloween a run for its...
You wouldn't to get in a fistfight with Fernand Mondego. He's a big dude, and a passionate one....
As a young woman, Mercédès is kind of one-dimensional character. She's beautiful,...
Albert is the son of Fernand and Mercédès. When you first met him, you probably hated...
Danglars's motive is pretty darn boring: he's jealous of a younger, more attractive, more...
Madame Danglars is an enterprising, independent woman. She's landed herself a rich husband. Using...
Eugénie Danglars isn't like the other girls. Dumas makes it clear as day:As for her...
Young Villefort is the closest thing we get to a foil for Edmond. He's young, he's lucky in love,...
Monte Cristo may be baddest of the bad and the coolest of the cool, but Monsieur Noirtier sure...
Valentine is kind and beautiful and devoted. Her father loves her, her grandfather loves her, and...
OK, try this on for size. Suppose that we divide Gérard de Villefort's life in two parts:...
Poor little Edward gets the short end of the stick. His father doesn't love him. His mother does...
Rebirth's a big deal in The Count of Monte Cristo. Edmond Dantès becomes the Count of Monte...
Bertuccio is the Count's right-hand man. When Monte Cristo wants something done, he goes to...
Like his fellow convict Benedetto (a.k.a. Andrea Cavalcanti), Caderousse certainly knows how to...
Abbé Faria is quite possibly the greatest mentor ever. How else do you explain the...
Like any good son, Edmond loves his father. Like any good father, the elder Dantès loves his...
The first act of Haydée's life is sad – she sees her own father get gunned down right...
If the Romans – that is, the nineteenth-century Romans, not the toga-wearing ones –...
More than anything else, Peppino is a plot device. A bandit in Luigi Vampa's gang, he's caught,...
Monsieur Morrel is a good father, an honest businessman, and young Edmond Dantès's greatest...
Young Max is often referred to as "Maximilian Morrel, captain of spahis." Taken literally, it...
The only daughter of M. Pierre Morrel, she is chosen by Edmond to help save her father....
As a young man, Emmanuel is one of the last clerks to continue working for M. Morrel. Whether he...
As both house servant to the Morrel family and cashier for the firm of Morrel and Son,...
The mute servant is an adventure story classic (Zorro had one), and the Count of Monte Cristo's...
Baptistin is the Count's valet de chambre – but you can call him a butler if you'd like....
As with Mercédès, there's not much to Renée de Saint-Méran. She's kind and...
More than anything else, Napoleon functions as a plot device. The intrigue surrounding his return...
Brother of Louis XVII – who lost his head (no, literally) – during the French...
Simple, naïve, oblivious: call him what you will, but Jacopo is a true friend to Edmond. He...
Think of la Carconte as the anti-Noirtier. Stricken by chronic illness, Caderousse's wife becomes...
Although Franz d'Epinay is the only character in the book who gets to go on a really intense...
One of Madame Danglars's many flings, his position as government Finance Minister allows him to...
Beauchamp is a good journalist and a good friend. When a correspondent writes from Yanina...
Château-Renaud represents the "aristocracy of the sword" which de Villefort mentions at the...
Louise d'Armilly is Eugénie Danglars's music teacher, best friend and, quite probably,...