Talk:Edmond Dantes/@comment-2601:248:4301:BD90:9903:77FB:DF3:673A-20170820053903/@comment-153.90.91.5-20171203232013

Spoilers for a century old book:

Buuut in the end he is still a  (mostly) good guy. While he plans to get revenge on everyone who hurt him and all their adult-age children/their older relatives, he ends up backing down. His plan to kill the child of his old fiance was to shoot him in a duel. Buuuut his old fiance found out about the duel and begged him for her child's life, he almost immediatly gives up and is willing to let the child kill him instead. He manipulated a woman into poisoning all her family, including a young-woman daughter, buuuuuut his old friend's son fell in love with that daughter so he changed his mind and did everything possible to save her life (including watching over her for three days streight without sleeping to make sure she wouldn't get poisoned again). His plans accidentally kill a small child, and he feels bad about it. Not to mention the first thing he does when he gets out of prison is leave a ton of money to the friend mentioned above (the one person who was actually loyal to him, gave him a great job, and tried getting him out of prison at great personal risk.) preventing him and his son from killing themselves out of poverty.

In the end, he had two motivations: Love and revenge. Whenever the clashed, love always won. He only cared about a small handfull of people, but he would do anything for those people.