Loyalty in "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexander Dumas. This essay is about the loyal and unloyal people in the story.

Loyalty in The Count of Monte Cristo In the world of Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo self-sacrificing loyalty is the greatest attribute of the "good" characters. Conversely, the most despicable disloyalty is the chief characteristic of the "villains" like Danglars and Fernand. The "good" characters take risks to help Dantés when he is in trouble, as in the case of Morrel the ship-owner, or when they believe that he is in trouble, as in …

…to the criminal. True disloyalty is when a person switches loyalty to the winning side and once the winning side looks like they will lose, the person switches loyalties again. In the world of The Count of Monte Cristo, the people who are "loyal" to Dantès and the people who are "loyal" to those people are considered "good". Those who are "villains" are the ones who harm Dantès and switch sides are "disloyal".