Villefort fears, however, that this letter might damage his own position, and so he makes sure, he thinks, that no one ever hears about either Dantès or the letter again.įor many years, Dantès barely exists in his tiny, isolated cell he almost loses his mind and his will to live until one day he hears a fellow prisoner burrowing nearby. Villefort, a prosecutor who knows that Dantès is carrying a letter addressed to Villefort's father the old man is a Bonapartist who would probably be imprisoned by the present royalist regime were it not for his son's, Villefort's, influence.Caderousse, an unprincipled neighbor and.Danglars, the purser of the Pharaon, who covets Dantès' promised captainship. Fernand Mondego, who is jealous of Mercédès' love for Dantès. As a reward, Dantès is promised a captainship, but before he can claim his new post and be married to his fiancée, Mercédès', a conspiracy of four jealous and unsavory men arrange for him to be seized and secretly imprisoned in solitary confinement in the infamous Chateau d'If, a prison from which no one has ever escaped. Edmond Dantès, a handsome, promising young sailor, skillfully docks the three-masted French ship, the Pharaon, in Marseilles after its captain died en route home.
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