In this scene, what is Mercédès's attitude toward the marriage customs of her culture?

She obeys the marriage laws of her culture even when they make her unhappy.

She uses the customs of her culture as an excuse to avoid marrying Fernand.

She freely follows her culture's marriage customs without a sense of conflict.

She does not feel bound to strictly obey her culture's marriage customs.


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excerpt from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas

"You see, Mercédès," said the young man, "here is Easter come round again; tell me, is this the moment for a wedding?"

"I have answered you a hundred times, Fernand, and really you must be very s**pid to ask me again."

"Well, repeat it,—repeat it, I beg of you, that I may at last believe it! Tell me for the hundredth time that you refuse my love, which had your mother's sanction. Make me understand once for all that you are trifling with my happiness, that my life or death are nothing to you. Ah, to have dreamed for ten years of being your husband, Mercédès, and to lose that hope, which was the only stay of my existence!"

"At least it was not I who ever encouraged you in that hope, Fernand," replied Mercédès; "you cannot reproach me with the slightest coquetry. I have always said to you, 'I love you as a brother; but do not ask from me more than sisterly affection, for my heart is another's.' Is not this true, Fernand?"

"Yes, that is very true, Mercédès," replied the young man, "Yes, you have been cruelly frank with me; but do you forget that it is among the Catalans a sacred law to intermarry?"

"You mistake, Fernand; it is not a law, but merely a custom, and, I pray of you, do not cite this custom in your favor. You are included in the conscription, Fernand, and are only at liberty on sufferance, liable at any moment to be called upon to take up arms. Once a soldier, what would you do with me, a poor orphan, forlorn, without fortune, with nothing but a half-ruined hut and a few ragged nets, the miserable inheritance left by my father to my mother, and by my mother to me? She has been dead a year, and you know, Fernand, I have subsisted almost entirely on public charity. Sometimes you pretend I am useful to you, and that is an excuse to share with me the produce of your fishing, and I accept it, Fernand, because you are the son of my father's brother, because we were brought up together, and still more because it would give you so much pain if I refuse. But I feel very deeply that this fish which I go and sell, and with the produce of which I buy the flax I spin,—I feel very keenly, Fernand, that this is charity."

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Answer 1

Your answer is: She does not feel bound to strictly obey her culture's marriage customs.

The excerpt shown above belongs to the book "The Count of Monte Cristo" which tells the story of Dante, a man who spent 13 years unfairly imprisoned in the prison on the island.

Dante was the great love of Mercedes' life, which is presented in the excerpt above, in an argument with Ferdinand, her cousin, about marriage and love.

Ferdinand is in love with Mercedes and her family supports that they stay together, in addition, it is a cultural custom that cousins are married in their country. For this reason, Ferdinand reinforces the idea that he and Mercedes should marry. But Mercedes doesn't feel obligated to obey this cultural custom regarding marriage if she doesn't feel love for the groom and she doesn't feel love for Ferdinand, as shown in the excerpt.

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