Who Is Fernand Responsible For His Revenge

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Dantes is justified for his revenge towards Fernand because Fernand helps destroy Dantes’s life. Fernand is in love with Dantes’s fiancée, Mercédès, and would do anything to marry her. When Fernand, Danglars, and Caderousse are drinking, Danglars formulates a plan of how to falsely denounce Dantes, “He’s probably going to Paris to deliver the letter the marshall gave him...By God! That letter gives me an idea, an excellent idea!” (17). Fernand helps denounce Dantes because he is a sneaky man who believes that since he is in love with Mercédès he should be able to marry her. When Dantes escapes from prison, he immediately thinks to find his father and Mercédès. However, he is unable to do so and when he encounters Caderousse and talks to him about his father and Mercédès he learns that, “Edmond’s father died, as I’ve told you. …show more content…

Here, Dantes finds out that Fernand married Mercédès and had a son, Albert. This angers Dantes because his fiancée married one of the men who maliciously denounced him and causes his suffering. Starting Dantes plan for revenge, he uses Fernand’s son, Albert, to be reintroduced to the Parisian society as his alias, The Count of Monte Cristo, “Will you undertake, my dear Monsieur de Morcerf,... to introduce me to the world which will be so foreign to me when I arrive in France?” (159). Dantes befriends Albert to use him as a pawn for revenge against Fernand and Mercédès. Dantes first plan of action is to get Albert out of the country while his father prepares to go on trial so he will not be there, “I’m about to travel. Would you like to come with me?”

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