Select 3 adjectives that best describe Edmond Dantes's personality and explain an incident or passage that supports the meaning of the adjective.

A complex character of Alexandre Dumas's tale of revenge
and redemption, Edmund Dantes exhibits certain saliet
traits:

INGENUOUS

In
the opening chapters of The Count of Monte Cristo, Edmund Dantes is
certainly an ingenuous young man.  Ever the dutiful frst mate, Edmund, who knows nothing
of the political world of his time, delivers the letter from Captain Leclerc to Elba
where the banished emperor, Napolen, resides.  After he must bring the ship to port when
the captain dies, Edmund does not notice the looks of hatred that Danglars casts his
way.  Then, at his wedding feast, Edmund innocently acknowledges his good fortune in
possessing the love of the beautiful Mercedes as he sits with Ferdinand, Danglars, and
Caderousse
present.

LOYAL

After Edmund
Dantes effects his escape and learns of how Monsieur Morrel aided his poor father, he
comes to the aid of the shipowner upon learning that all but one of his merchant ships
have sunk.  By leaving the red purse with money for M. Morrel, the purse which Morrel
himself has filled for M. Dantes in his impoverishment and misery while his son has been
condemned to prison.  Using the pseudonym of "Sinbad the Sailor," Dantes staves off M.
Morrel's suicide.  Later, Dantes comes to the aid of Morrel's son, Maximilian by saving
the life of his beloved, Valentine deVillefort and by uniting the two lovers, redeeming
them both from
despair.

INGENIOUS

Exploiting
the vices and weaknesses of his enemies, Dantes systematically and most cleverly wreaks
revenge upon the enemies who have sent him unjustly to prison.  For instance, in order
to destroy the prosecutor Dantes fabricates the character of the Count of Calvacanti,
who woos de Villefort's daughter to the delight of the avaricious Prosecutor who sees
the match as a profitable one.  However, Calvacanti (Benedetto) is no Italian noble. 
When this is exposed, de Villefort, unsuspectingly demands justice and puts the young
man on trial.  During this trial, however, it is revelaed that the former criminal
had witnessed years ago de Villefort's burial of his illegitimate child.  When this
information is revealed in court, de Villefort's reputation as a man of honor is
destroyed and he later goes insane.

PROVIDENTIAL (tied to
the above adjective INGENIOUS)

In an intimate conversation
with de Villefort in Chapter 49, the Count of Monte Cristo
reveals

I wish
to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing
in the world is to recompense and
punish.

Not only does Monte
Cristo create ingenious plots, but he feels that he is the "Paraclete" who wreaks "an
eye for an eye" and rewards the just.  However, although Monte Cristo commits the sin of
pride in feeling that he is an agent of Providence, he does achieve redemption in the
end of the novel.  In a letter to Maxmilian:

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Tell the angel who is going to watch over you,
Morrel, to pray for a man who, like Satan, believed for the moment he was the equal of
God, who now acknowledges in all Christian humility that in God alone is supreme power
and infinite wisdom....