#caderousse

I think more people should start talking about their least favorite character.

I’ll start…

Lady Macbeth (from Macbeth)

John Thorpe (MY LEAST FAVORITE JANE AUSTEN CHARACTER; from Northanger Abbey)

Lady Susan (Actually scratch my previous statement, Lady Susan combined with John Thorpe are my least favorite Austen characters; from Lady Susan, she is so mean to her daughter… I wish I could punch literary characters)

Madame de Villefort (tied with lady Macbeth as my least… or would it be most? favorite female villain; count of Monte cristo)

Caderousse, Danglars, Fernand (all of them piss me off leave my man Edmond alone; all three are from count of Monte cristo)

Daisy Buchanan ( first of all Tom and her are toxic as fuck and also she got Gatsby killed and for that reason alone she’s on this list; great gatsby)

John Reed (he’s mentally, physically and sexually abuse to Jane Eyre (his cousin) SHE IS 10 WHEN HE IS DOING THIS AND HER PARENTS JUST DIED; also books Jane Eyre)

and his mom, Mrs Reed (because she let John do all of those stuff and she was mentally and physically abusive as well)

it's such a common person to meet. like, HE didn't write the letter accusing Edmond, but HE also didn't tell anyone he knew that Edmond was slandered by Danglars and Fernand.

HE didn't come up with the plan to kill the jeweller, but HE didn't stop his wife.

HE didn't think first of robbing the count, but HE did it.

and he never thought he did anything wrong.

Unfortunate Ties (Caderousse) before and after time-skip in my mlp tcomc au

Villefort shuddered at the idea of the prisoner cursing him in the darkness and silence, but he had gone too far to retreat. Dantes would have to be broken between the cogs of his ambition.

God, that second line is so good. What I love about this line is how deliberate and at the same time resigned it is. Villefort will sacrifice anything to his ambition, and by doing so finds himself somewhat trapped by his own choices. He has no way out but forward. While he may cringe a bit, and dreads the idea of reprisal from his enemies, he knowingly continues to walk this path.

...his denunciation had been accurate and, like all men with a certain natural aptitude for crime and only average understanding of ordinary life, he described this strange coincidence as 'a decree of Providence'. But when Napoleon had returned to Paris and his voice, imperious and powerful, was heard once more in the land, Danglars knew fear.

While his decision to leave here does end up working for him, it's motivated by no great strategic mind; rather, he is described as having criminal instincts but not a great deal more. He fears revenge (and that last line is fantastic) but, for all his scheming, he isn't the character who sees the picture around him most clearly (except in one distinct way - he remembers Dantes, and fears him, rather than any official/larger-scale fallout. He knows the kind of man Dantes is more than the others). That's Villefort, who is described above and earlier in the chapter as being quite aware of his situation and possible future ramifications, as well as having good instincts. So Danglars runs, always hoping to rebuild anew somewhere else.

As for Fernand, he understood nothing. Dantes had gone away; that was enough. What had happened to him? Fernand did not try to find out.

Look, this guy's dumb. He's a loser. He wants Mercedes, he hates Dantes, and that's as far as he goes. His lack of curiosity or awareness of what is truly going on around him makes him in some ways the easiest mark of them all, certainly compared to the two schemers above. This quote made me laugh.

Caderousse was called up as Fernand had been; but, being eight years older than the Catalan and married, he was not recruited until the third wave of conscription and sent to guard the coast.

Okay, I admit this stretches 'absolutely stellar quote' to the limit. It's not really at all, but I do feel like it kind of sums his role up decently. He's kind of a sucky guy, but not as much as the other three. He hangs back, in terms of villainy, both in convicting Dantes and in profiting off his absence, compared to the others. While he does get drawn in to the villainy repeatedly, it is more reluctantly/gradually... but it does still happen. He succumbs to temptation. He gets used, he keeps quiet out of cowardice, he gets greedy, etc. I dunno, it's probably just because I thought some of the other lines were somewhat character-defining, but I thought this line about his eventual conscription sort of matches his role among the villains.

Also, a couple bonus lines that I love:

So it was that Dantes, during the Hundred Days and after Waterloo, remained under lock and key, forgotten, if not by men, at least by God.

The reversal of the usual phrase here, where he may be remembered by men but has been forgotten by God, is delicious.

It was not the fact that Mercedes lacked the courage to carry out this intention, but the succour of religion that saved her from suicide.