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#Tv tropes the count of monte cristo manual

And she did take care of Edmond's father until he died - the poor man would have died alone if it wasn't for her and Morrel. There is a big Dramatic Irony that she ends up marrying Fernand, but he was her cousin and she did esteem him, even if she didn't love him as he would have wanted her to. Becoming a nun isn't really an option either, since convents at the time asked for a dowry from a postulant - and Mercedes can't afford that either.

She is, after all, a 19th century woman who can't really fend for herself unless she marries. To Mercedes' credit, and as Dantes acknowledged, she did wait eighteen months before agreeing to marry Fernand - which was a reasonable interval, especially considering Mercedes is established from the start as a penniless orphan who had to count on her village's charity in order to survive.Mercedes becoming a hermit and Albert joining the African army were entirely self-inflicted punishments. He actually intended for Albert and Mercedes to live in peace and relative comfort after he was done with Fernand.

The count specifically tells her that she should not have given up all the wealth that Fernand had amassed, because part of it was hers by right.

Even if she would have him, that's a life Edmond would never be able to go back to.

I don't think it was intended to be a "punishment." If anything, it's a testament to her character, in that she's easily able to give up all the things Fernand provided for her upon learning of his crimes against Edmond and settle down for the life she was "meant" to have in Marseille.

But to Mercedes, he was always a friend, and she knew that he loved her, she even loved him back in her own way - just not nearly as much as she had loved Dantes. He was Dantes' enemy, to the point where they only shake hands because Mercedes tells them to.

I don't think Fernand Mondego was her enemy.

If she had waited a decent interval, say a year, and married someone for comfort and security and maybe a little love, I think things would have changed a lot - but she married her enemy and was too naive to think any deeper into it. I don't neecessarily say she deserved to be alone, but arguably Dantes might have been less harsh on her if she hadn't married Fernand Mondego of all people.

YMMV seriously on whether Mercedes deserved it or not.

I know the book is of its time, but the other female characters seem to end up with fates that align with their actions. Mercedes is the only person of her generation not to have intentionally harmed anyone, and yet she winds up broken and alone, while Dantes sails off into the blue horizon with a hot young thing.

In what is essentially a decades-long morality play, it's always bothered me that the most moral character in the book winds up paying for crimes she never committed.Presumably, his servants take care to be certain he doesn't choke (such as feeding him a diet of liquified food and punching him in the chest every time something goes down the wrong pipe). Noirtier eats and defecates because if he couldn't, either he would have died of heart failure long ago or nothing with a body too large to absorb sufficient air through osmosis would have ever come into being, or failing that, consistently died a much more disgusting death shortly after every single birth. A lot of systems (like the heart, diaphragm, throat, and bowels) work independently from the brain, and it typically requires training one's mind explicitly to overcome these systems in order to have any semblance of control over them. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace. All new trope pages will be made with the "Trope Workshop" found on the "Troper Tools" menu and worked on until they have at least three examples.Pages that don't do this will be subject to deletion, with or without explanation. All new pages should use the preloadable templates feature on the edit page to add the appropriate basic page markup. All images MUST now have proper attribution, those who neglect to assign at least the "fair use" licensing to an image may have it deleted.Failure to do so may result in deletion of contributions and blocks of users who refuse to learn to do so.

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