A short presentation made for my students to facilitate them to understand the characters' relationship in this awesome book. We read The Count of Monte Cristo Dominoes three, Oxford and it was difficult for them to understand all the chararters the book has.
2. Mrs Liliana Lo Preiato
Edmond Dantès seems to have
a perfect life. He is going to
become the captain of a ship,
the Pharaon, he is engaged to
a beautiful and kind young
woman, Mercedes, and almost
everyone he knows likes him.
This perfect life, however,
changes dangerously.
Monsieur Danglars envies
Dantès’ success in his career;
Fernand Mondego is in love
with Dantès’ fiancée. Together
they draft a plan to accuse
him of treason…
3. Mrs Liliana Lo Preiato
Napoleon Bonaparte was born in 1769 in Corsica. He
agreed with the French Revolution, and the execution of
King Louis XVI.
In 1804 Napoleon became Emperor of France and by 1807
France had large Empire in Europe. But then Napoleon
became unpopular. In 1812 he sent his army into Russia,
where the hard winter killed many of his soldiers. In 1814
he lost the battle of Leipzig and was exiled to the island of
Elba in the Mediterranean off the coast of Italy.
After that the royalists, the supporters to the monarchy,
made Louis XVI’s brother, Louis XVIII, the new king of
France. Louis XVI’s son, Louis XVII, had died as a boy in
prison.
Early in 1815 Napoleon escaped from Elba and returned to
France. The French army welcomed him as the Emperor of
France and Louis XVIII left Paris.
Later Napoleon lost the battle of Waterloo. He was
banished to the island of Saint Helena in the south Atlantic
and Louis XVIII returned to Paris. Napoleon died on Saint
Helena six years later.
4. Mrs Liliana Lo Preiato
The Maltese Sailor:
he takes this name
to safe his life and to
work with the
smugglers
Sinbad the Sailor: he
takes this name when
he saves Morel’s family
Lord Wilmore: he
assumes this name to
pay Morel’s debts
The Count of Monte Cristo: he transforms
in the count to take revenge after he finds
Father Faria’s treasure. He reveals his
real name to his enemies when his revenge
Is completed
REAL NAME: Edmond Dantès. A sailor with good prospects. Mercedes’Edmond Dantès. A sailor with good prospects. Mercedes’
fiancé. He wants revenge because he is unjustly sent to prison.fiancé. He wants revenge because he is unjustly sent to prison.
5. Mrs Liliana Lo Preiato
Benedetto
Andrea Cavalcanti
Villefort
Nortier Unknown name (a
criminal)
Bartolomeo Cavalcanti
Fernand de Morcef
Fernand Mondego
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NAPOLEON: Emperor of France.
He was exiled to the island of
Elba just before the story begins.
MERCEDES: Edmond’s
fiancèe. Fernand loves her.
She married Fernand when
He is sent to prison after
waiting for a year. She never stops
loving him.
FERNAND: Mercedes’ cousin.
He writes a letter to Villefort
saying that Edmond is an enemy
of the King.
VILLEFORT: The crown
prosecutor. He sends
Edmond to prison because
he knows about Napoleon’s
letter to his father.M. MORREL: the owner of the
Pharaon. He wants Edmond to
be the new captain of his ship.
He pays for Edmond’s father
funeral when he dies and Edmond is in
prison.
DANGLARS: the Pharaon’s cargo
He wants to be the captain of the
ship. He designs the plan to
send Edmond to Prison. Later
he becomes a wealthy banker.
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ALBERT de MORCEF: Mercedes’s and
Fernand’s son. Mercedes marries to
Fernand being desperate and thinking
he is dead.
MAXIMILIEN MORREL: M. Morrel’s
son. He is a soldier. He loves Valentine
but they cannot marry.
JULIEN MORREL: M. Morrel’s
daughter. She is married to
Emmanuel. She receives the purse
from Simbad de Sailor to pay her
father’s debts.
MM. DANGLARS: Baron Danglars’
wife. In the past she is Villefort’s lover
and they have a son: Benedetto. She
does not know he is alive. At present,
she is Lucien Debray’s lover.
EUGÉNIE DANGLARS: Baron
Danglars’ and Mm. Danglars’s
daughter. She is supposed to marry
Albert de Morcef. In the end, her
father wants her to marry to Andrea
Cavalcanti, a man of money.
FATHER FARIA: He is a brilliant priest.
Edmond meets him in prison. During
their many years of prison, he teaches
Dantes history, science, languages, and
art. He gives Dantes the map to get
his treasure.
M. NOIRTIER VILLEFORT: Villefort’s
father. He is a Bonapartist. He is
a brave man even when paralyzed by
a stroke. He helps his loved grand-
daughter, Valentine, when She is
forced to marry Franz D’Epiney.
EMMANUEL: Julie’s husband. He
loves her.
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ALI PACHA: A Greek leader who
Fernad betrays. This betrayal leads to
Pacha’s murder in the hands of the
Turks. His daughter, Haydee, is sold
as a slave.
BENEDETTO:Villefort’s illegitimate
child. His mother is Mm. Danglars.
Villefort tries to kill him when he is
born. He does not know Benedetto is
alive. Benedetto kills the person who
Raises him since his childhood,
Assunta. Monte Cristo gives him a
new personality, Andrea Cavalcanti,
as part of his revenge
BERTUCCIO: Monte Cristo’s servant.
He is loyal to Monte Cristo and he
chooses him as part of his revenge
because of his vendetta to Villefort
(Villefort did not punish the men who
killed his brother).
HAYDEE: She is sold to Monte
Cristo as a slave. Her father, Ali Pasha,
dies because Fernand betrays him
and sells him to the enemy. Finally,
Monte Cristo falls in love with her.
ASSUNTA: She is Bertuccio’s sister-in-
law. Her husband is killed by bandits.
She raises Benedetto together with
her brother-in-law. She is killed by him
when he sets her house on fire to steal
her money.
LUCIEN DEBRAY: Mm. Danglars’
financial partner and lover. They lose
a lot of money because of Monte
Cristo’s revenge and Danglars
becomes bankrupt.
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VALENTINE: Villefort’s and Renee
De Saint-Meran’s daughter. She is in
love with Maximilien Morrel, but her
step-mother (her mother died and
her father married again) wants her
to marry Franz D’Epiney because of
his money. She falls under Monte
Cristo’s protection and he helps her.
RENÉE de SAINT-MERAN: Villefort’s
first wife. He married her because of
her family’s power in society and
money. She has a daughter,
Valentine. Renée dies.
MM. VILLEFORT: M.Villefort’s second
wife. She is a murderous woman. She
loves her only son, Edouard, and she
believes he must receive all the
money of the family. She starts
poisoning people in the family.
MM. SAINT-MERAN: Renée Saint-
Meran’s mother and Valentine’s
grandmother. She dies from poison
before Valentine’s wedding to Franz
D’Epinay.
FRANZ D’EPINEY: Albert’s good
Friend. He saves Albert from bandits
in Rome. He is the Valentine’s un-
wanted fiancé.
ROYALIST D’EPINAY: Franz
D’Epinay’s father. He is kidnapped
by Villefort’s father; M. Noirtier,
and killed because he is a royalist.
When Franz learns this, he does not
want to marry Valentine anymore.
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PEPPINO: An Italian bandit. He is
Luigi Vampa’s friend. He is
sentenced to death and Monte Cristo
buys him his freedom. He is who
Gives Franz the letter asking for his
ransom.
MAJOR BARTOLOMEO CAVALCANTI:
A criminal. Monte Cristo pays him to
take this fake personality: an Italian
nobleman who will help Edmond with
his revenge.
M. BEAUCHANP: a well-known
journalist, and good friend of Albert
de Morcef. He travels to Greece and
finds out that Albert’s father is a
traitor.
BARON CHATEAU-RENAUD: Albert’s
friend. Maximilien Morrel saves his
life in the last battle they are.
LUIGI VAMPA: The chief of the
bandits in Rome. He is indebted to
Dante's because he saves one of
his friends of being executed in the
guillotine. Luigi kidnaps Albert when
He is in Rome for the carnival. He
becomes angry with his men when
he learns Albert is a friend of him.
M. BOVILLE: the prison inspector. He
visits him in the Château d’If. Morrel
owes him money. Lord Wilmore pays
him Morrel’s debts.
SIGNOR PASTRINI: the hotel-owner
in Rome. He warns Albert and Franz
not to drive outside the city at night
because there are bandits. They
ignored him and Albert is kidnapped.