The Abbe, a man of extreme erudition and great generosity of spirit, teaches Dantes everything he knows, from the languages and history of the world to science and philosophy.
After digging furiously in the direction of the sound, and noticing that his inmate-neighbor has also been digging, Dantes meets the Abbe Faria. It’s at this crucial moment, however, that Dantes hears scraping on the other side of his prison wall. Finally, after many years in solitary confinement in a squalid dungeon, he decides to kill himself by refusing all food. In prison, Dantes is initially angry, then morose and withdrawn. Dantes, not understanding what he has done wrong, finds himself trapped in the dreaded Chateau D’If, a prison in the Mediterranean, where he suffers in near-silence for fourteen years. de Villefort is initially sympathetic to the young man’s plight, but when he realizes that Dantes has been carrying a message from Napoleon to Villefort’s own father, Noirtier (who is himself a Bonapartist sympathizer), Villefort decides to allow Dantes to be framed for Bonapartist allegiances so that Noirtier’s sympathies will not become public. Happenstance brings these three men together, and at Danglars’s insistence, they hatch a plot to frame Dantes as being supportive of Napoleon Bonaparte, the deposed emperor of France.ĭantes is arrested for alleged treason while at his feast of betrothal to Mercedes.
Furthermore, Fernand, a fisherman in the city’s Catalan district, is envious of Dantes’s engagement to Fernand’s cousin, the beautiful young woman Mercedes. The promotion also makes Dantes’s father’s neighbor, a tailor named Caderousse, jealous. Morrel, who owns and operates the ship (and who is therefore Dantes’ boss and mentor) promotes Dantes to captain, which upsets the ship’s cargo manager, Danglars. He is first mate on the ship Pharaon, which docks in Marseille in 1814. Edmond Dantes is a nineteen year-old with a bright future.
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