How Is Edmond Dantès Portrayed As A Successful Man

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From the beginning of Count of Monte Cristo, Edmond Dantès is portrayed as a happy, successful man. As the jealousy of three men provokes them to falsely accuse Dantès of a crime, Dantès’s life and personality changes in numerous ways. In the first chapter, Dantès is suprised by the amount of happiness and fortune that he has received from working on a ship and his upcoming marriage to his lover, Mercédès, to which he compares it to overcoming dragons (17). When the three jealous men execute their plot to have Dantès imprisoned, he cannot think of who his enemies might be, showing his naïveté and good nature (27). However, in prison, Dantès meets another convict who educates him to be more cunning and seek vengeance from those who imprisoned