Posts Tagged “Fantine”
- Sunday in the Park with Fantine We meet Fantine when she's carefree and still with Cosette's father; the Thenardiers on a day when they look ALMOST respectable; the mysterious M.Madeleine.
- Righteousness vs “Righteousness” Continuing my re-read of the book: Javert makes his entrance as one of M. Madeleine's few detractors, and the system chews up Fantine and spits her out.
- Get Me To The Courthouse On Time Getting to not-Valjean's trial is a lot more complicated than a scene change. It's more like Hurley trying to make Flight 815.
- Second Chances The offering of a second chance, and acceptance/refusal of said chance, happens repeatedly in Les Misérables.
- The Wretched of the Earth While the whole novel is built around justice for those downtrodden by society, Victor Hugo focuses on five specific examples of poverty.
- Fantine Before the Fall Hugo writes one of those listicles about the year's big celebrity and news stories. Tholomyès is an insufferable ass, and Fantine is often lost in thought.
- Fantine: Alternate Possibilities Fantine told Mme Thénardier that she was a widow. Could she have done the same in town? Would it have worked, or would it have just exposed Cosette to all the trauma alongside her?
- Tholomyès the…Dad? It seems weird that someone as someone as shallow and selfish as Tholomyès actually stayed with Fantine during her pregnancy.