If you're interested there's an article written about Haydee and her importance within the book (and how later adaptations do or don't utilize her): https://amisdumas.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/1506_raicu_hayde.pdf
I thought it was pretty interesting in how it also parallels her relationship with the count to that of Edmond and Abbe Faria
So my haydeeposting wasn't unnoticed hehehe I finished the book recently. She's my darling.
Thank you so much for the read, I really enjoyed it!! I fully agree with the author in that Haydée is crucial to the novel's emotional core. I loved when she linked Edmond's "one word from [Haydée] has enlightened me more than twenty years of slow wisdom" to "wait and hope". That's the heart of the story for me.
And yes yes, the parallels between abbe Faria/Edmond and Edmond/Haydée are such a good catch. She talks about Edmond being abbe Faria's link to the world and Haydée Edmond's and I would also say that Edmond brings focus and purpose to Haydée's grief/rage, same as the abbe did for him. I love that Edmond and Haydée are so similar: "No doubt she belongs to the same horrible race he does, and is, like himself, a dealer in magical arts". These are such similar passages:
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