The Count Of Monte Cristo Love Essay

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Many people believe that not everyone is capable of loving and changing who they are. However with some people, they see good in everyone, even in the darkest, most evil people. In the book The Count of Monte Cristo, hatred is seen throughout the novel and many people overlook the concept of love being a theme. Although many people believe love is not truly present in this novel, I believe it is because Mercedes and Dante's’ feelings remained for a long time, Maximilien believed he couldn’t live without Valentine, and Haydee’s love starts to turn the Count back to how he was before imprisonment.
One of the most clear love stories was shown right off the bat in the beginning of the story. The love between Edmond Dantes and Mercedes. There are many reasons throughout the book to show how their love was real. One being that Mercedes never fully moved on from Dante's, even when she was with Fernand, “It’s still true that she fainted once when she passed by the tavern where she’d celebrated her betrothal feast 18 months before with the man she’d realized she still loved if she’d dared look into the depths of her …show more content…

After the imprisonment of Edmond Dantes, he was no longer the same person. Instead he became bitter and revengeful. However, the Count started to show signs of himself when he fell in love with Haydee, “The Count trembled at the sound of her voice, which touched the most secret fibers of his heart”. This quote is essential because it illustrates how the love between the two has started to show the old Dantes and started to bring back his humanity. Also in the middle of the book, the Count told Haydee that she is the new Mercedes in his life. This scene is important because you see how much Dantes had loved Mercedes, but now he has started to move on and feels strongly for a new woman. The love between the Count and Haydee is one that is visibly

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