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Who Is Edmond Dantès?

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Who is Edmond Dantès? In Alexandre Duma’s The Count of Monte Cristo (1844), Edmond Dantès may appear as a protagonist, however, he displays three major flaws of his own personality that show how he is an antagonist: his pride, his vengeance, and his slyness behavior. When Edmond is imprisoned in the Château d'If dungeon, he is informed by Abbé Faria that the reason he was sent to the dungeon was due to three men who betrayed him. After Abbé Faria insinuated the idea of revenge into Edmond’s head, Edmond begins his long and well thought out plan to destroy the three men’s lives. Abbe teaches Edmond many skills that he needed to learn to gain his revenge. When Abbe Faria dies from a student attack, Edmond escapes the dungeon, he swears that,
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