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The Count of Monte C
Character Descriptions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Edmond Dantes | Protagonist, intelligent, honest, and loving man who turns bitter and vengeful, takes it upon himself to reward those who have helped him in his plight and punish those responsible for his years of agony. |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Identity Dantes assumes when he emerges from prison and inherits his vast fortune. Associated with coldness and bitterness from an existance based on vengeance. |
| Lord Wilmore | Identity of an eccentric English Nobleman committing acts of random generosity. |
| Abbe Busoni | Another of Dantes's false personas, an Italian priest, helps gain the trust of the people. |
| Sinbad the Sailor | Name Dantes uses as the signature for his anonymous gift to Morrel. |
| Mercedes | Dantes's beautiful and good fiancee, marries Fernand Mondego while Dantes is in prison. |
| Abbe Faria | Priest, brilliant thinker, Dantes meets in prison, Dantes's intellectual father, bequeaths to Dantes his vast hidden fortune. |
| Fernand Mondego | Dantes's rival for Mercedes's affections, helps in framing Dantes for treason, marries Mercedes, first victim of Dantes's vengeance. |
| Baron Danglars | Greedy, envious cohort of Mondego, hatches the plot to frame Dantes for treason. |
| Caderousse | Lazy, drunk and greedy man. Makes his living through petty crime and the occasional murder. |
| Gerard de Villefort | Blindly ambitious public prosecutor responsible for sentencing Dantes to life in prison. |
| Monsieur Morrel | Kind, honest shipowner. Morrel does everything to free Dantes from prison and tries to save Dantes's father from death. |
| Louis Dantes | Dantes's father. Starves himself to death when Dantes is imprisoned. |
| Maximilian Morrel | Son of Monsieur Morrel, brave and honorable, becomes Dantes's primary beneficiary. |
| Albert de Morcerf | Son of Fernand Mondego and Mercedes. Brave, honest, and kind. |
| Valentine Villefort | Villefort's saintly and beautiful daughter. She falls under Dantes's protection. |
| Noirtier | Villefort's father, brilliant and willful. |
| Haydee | Daughter of Ali Pacha, sold into slavery after her father is betrayed by Mondego and murdered. Dantes falls in love with her. |
| Signor Bertuccio | Dantes's steward, loyal and adept. |
| Benedetto | Illegitimate son of Villefort and Madame Danglars. Turns to a life of brutality and crime. Handsome, charming, and a wonderful liar. |
| Madame d'Villefort | Villefort's murderous wife. Devoted to her son Edward. |
| Julie Herbaut | Daughter of Monsieur Morrel, sister of Maximilian. Angelically good and blissfully in love. |
| Emmanuel Herbaut | Julie's husband, noble and perpetually happy. |
| Madame Danglars | Danglar's wife. Greedy, conniving, and disloyal. Engages in a never-ending string of love affairs. |
| Eugenie Danglars | Danglars' daughter, brilliant musician, longs for her independence and despises men. |
| Louise d'Armilly | Eugenie Danglars's music teacher and constant companion. |
| Lucien Debray | Secretary to the French minister of the interior. Illegally leaks government secrets to his lover, Madame Danglars. |
| Ali | Dantes's mute Nubian slave. Amazingly adept with all sorts of weapons. |
| Luigi Vampa | Famous Roman bandit. Indebted to Dantes. |
| Major Cavalcanti | A poor and crooked man. |
| Edward d'Villefort | The Villeforts' spoiled son. |
| Beauchamp | A well-known journalist, good friend to Albert de Morcerf. |
| Franz d'Epinay | Good friend to Albert de Morcerf, unwanted fiancee of Valentine Villefort. |
| Marquis of Saint-Meran | Father of Villefort's first wife, who dies shortly after her wedding day. |
| Marquise of Saint-Meran | Wife of Marquis of Saint-Meran. |
| Jacopo | Smuggler who helps Dantes win his freedom. |
| Ali Pacha | Greek nationalist leader whom Mondego betrays. Murdered at the hands of the turks and the seizure of his kingdom. |
| Baron of Chateau-Renaud | Aristocrat and diplomat. Nearly killed in the battle at Constantinople, but Maximilian Morrel saves him at the last second. |
| Peppino | Italian shepherd, arrested and sentenced to death for the crime of being an accomplice to bandits. |
| Countess G- | Beautiful Italian aristocrat who suspects that Monte Cristo is a vampire. |