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love, generally, Heathdiff's is rather narrow, selfish, and twisted but Edmond's like most ordinary men’s is wide, selfishless and natural. Why? Because in his mind, love means occupation and exclusion. We can know this from his complaint about the poorly limited time when he and Catherine stay together ,and his hatred, and his late revenge on Linton because of his marriage with Catherine. As a result, we think his love for Catherine is shallow and selfish. And meanwhile his love is deformed, too. This embodies in his acts — bribe the sexton to remove the coffin of Linton in order to separate Linton and Catherine after his death and even try to open Catherine 's coffin so as to hold Catherine's corpse in his arms but for the sexton's warnings and his visions. These two acts are beyond our understanding and imagination; and they are quite absurd and unreasonable. This is because his love is just confined to Catherine but not to others, even his benefactor and his own only son. However, we must confess that his love for Catherine is deep&n bsp; out of his inner heart. We can know this from his obedience to Catherine in everything but not to his benefactor, his indifference to his degradation and heavy beating caused by Hindley so long as he can stay with Catherine, and his desire to change himself to cater to Catherine and efforts made for this. His love towards Catherine is so deep that when Catherine died on that night, he keeps the same gesture for one night. Moreover, owing to her death, eventually he who only has a stone heart becomes a wild beast. As for Edmond Dantes , he not only expresses his love towards his dearest, such as his father and his betrothed ,but also to others. Even if he suffers a lot on account of spiteful men's scheme, he still shows his love to others except his persecutors. So we say his love is wider than Heathcliff. To Mercedes, he owns complex feelings in his heart after his visit to his old neighbour following his successful escape and search for fortune. Especially when he hears Mercedes marries Fernand only after his arrest 18 months later, he smiles a bitter smile and murmurs:“ Frailty, thy name is woman”.(4) From these words, we can know that he is quite sad and disappointed. And then he inquires his old neighbour of her late life. This proves that he cares for her very much, even loves her. So later, during his revenge he gives up the dual with her son thanks to begging of Mercedes and his last visit as an old friend to Mercedes in the old house where he and his father once lived. But at this moment he does this sherrly out of his sympathies and his love for young Mercedes in his heart and memory. The following description shows this: Monte Cristo, however, took her hand, and imprinted a kiss on it, but she herself felt that it was with no garter warmth than he would have respectfully bestowed on the hand of some marble statue of a saint.(5) This moment he kisses her hand out of courtesies and encouragement but not his deep love .If there is any ,it is only his sweet memory of the past .That is to say ,he is just in shade of their past during their youth ; his love for Mercedes is just confined to the past when they are lovers . That is quite natural to someone who undergoes great changes . So comparing with love between Edmond and Mercedes, love between Heathcliff and Catherine is deeper and stronger because Heathcliff and Catherine love each other deeply and strongly in thei