Fantine Essays

Nine years after this incident, Valjean is now a wealthy industrialist and a mayor. Fantine is a single mother working at Valjean's factory. When her manager discovers that she has had a daughter out of adultery, Fantine is fired from her job. Valjean is too concerned by the arrival of Inspector Javert, who was formerly guard at the prison where Valjean was held. He is afraid he might remember Valjean and arrest him for breaking parole. The Thenardiers, corrupt innkeepers “taking care” of Fantine’s

Valjean cry? The weight of Valjean’s bad conscience had finally caught up to him and it overwhelmed him; breaking his promise with the bishop, who had been so nice to him, had broken him. 25. a. Who stops to admire the mother and her daughters? Fantine stops to watch the mother and her children in admiration, as they were very beautiful. b. What do we learn about the observer’s

honourably in successive years. Valjean spends his life working his way out of poverty, encountering many different social classes and ways of life during the French Revolution. The characters Javert, Fantine and the bishop each demonstrate different approaches to life; Javert focusing on enforcing the law, Fantine willing to do anything to support her child, and the bishop demonstrating generosity and forgiveness towards Valjean's wrongdoings. As Valjean confronts each character, he learns to accept differing

Monseigneur Bienvenu. The bishop kindness purifies and humanizes Valjean, and so he becomes a respectful man who changes his identity in order to forget his past and start a new life. Valjean also meets Fantine, a young woman whose lover left her with a child, Cosette. Valjean takes Cosette as his own after Fantine passes away, and because of Cosette, he finally understands parenthood and love. Unfortunately, Valjean’s past is not far behind and catches up with him quickly. Therefore, he is constantly on

Les Misérables. So, when Fantine sells her hair to buy a skirt for Cosette, it is a strong and important event. She is beginning to make sacrifices for her child, giving up things she has pride in and she cherishes, things that make her beautiful and strong. “At the same time she smiled. The candle lit up her face. It was a sickening smile, for the corners of her mouth were stained with blood, and a dark cavity revealed itself there. The two teeth were gone.” (page 66) Fantine sold her two teeth for

a) Poverty The movie was taken in one of the state in India, which is Mumbai. Basically, in this movie Mumbai have been demonstrated as one of the worst poverty city in the India. The three main character which also known as three Muskeeter, Two brothers, Jamal and Salim by a neighborhood girl named Latika. Three of them were raised in slums of Mumbai. Where in one scene you can see the children play cricket on airport runways, rummage through garbage heap. They witness their mother and other Moslem

Jean Valjean goes through a lot in this movie. In the beginning, Jean is released on parole after serving a sentence for stealing bread and for trying to escape prison. He travels everywhere to find a job and a home, but he is unable to find anything for himself. Finally, the bishop offers Jean a bed and some food, so Jean spends the night there. He repays the bishop by deciding to steal all his silverware and escape. In the morning, officers found Valjean with the stolen silverware and brought him

People are not truly good at heart “In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.” These words were spoken by Anne frank. She wrote these words in her diary in the attic of her father’s business. She was hiding from the Nazi’s, and hid among several other people in a confined area. Anne thought that everyone was truly good-hearted. She sadly died in a concentration camp about a year later.The truth is people are not good at heart. people are selfish, they are in

While each of the thefts of Jean Valjean represented a bad decision in his life, each led to a transforming effect in Jean Valjean’s life. In the classic Les Miserables, Victor Hugo highlights the themes of social injustice, poverty, and redemption in France during this time period while telling the story of the fugitive Jean Valjean. The novel centers on the main character, Jean Valjean, who spends nineteen years in prison due to stealing a loaf of bread and the rest of his life fleeing from police

Voltaire: The Rogue Thinker "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh" (New World Encyclopedia), once said the French Enlightenment writer, Voltaire. Ever since he began to become popular in Europe, Voltaire had an intense dedication to his beliefs. This offset the fact that he never created a philosophy of his own. He was a man of ideas rather than systems, and he used his works to criticize them. Attacking religion because of its systems, Voltaire gathered a great deal of attention

A man of marble, with a gaze of ice and opinions of stone. He walks a line to redemption that throughout the book grows increasingly thin until his demise. He is order, and justice, he is Javert, policeman of Paris and villain of the novel Les Miserables. Javert is in constant pursuit of Jean Valjean, a convict who broke parole. His obsessive behavior intertwines him deeply in the story of Jean Valjean and allows Javert to become the main antagonist of the novel. His villainy is in correspondence

A single quiet splash heard by no one signaled the end of Javert, a man of the law in Victor Hugo’s novel Les Miserables. He chases after Jean Valjean for years without rest or relenting, simply because Valjean broke parole. Given an opportunity to capture him, Javert would show no hesitation or mercy to the man who stole a loaf of bread. His resolve in this goal is shattered when Valjean, given the chance to the man pursuing him, instead saves Javert’s life. The conflicting examples of a galley

• Amir is characterized as an intellectual • The allusion to the power Rami who was born in Afghanistan. • Even though Amir won the battle of poems, Baba’s characterized unveils that he is more athletic. • Hassan expresses his loyalty to Amir by bringing his kite like he promised, even after losing his innocence. • The author identifies the rape as allegorized and Amir is standing in front t of the incident, witnessing it. Amir painstakingly describes the incident of Hassan getting raped in the

Today, I pay tribute to my father and honour him as he goes on that final journey of life to which all mortals must one day embark. In paying this tribute, I also pay tribute to your own parents; the parents of those who still live with them today and to the parents of those who miss them today. I grew up knowing my father as one of the most important persons in my life but I never realized how much my father meant to others, until these past few weeks. When he lived, I never took him for granted;

going on in her husband's mind,” (Eliot 161). In Les Miserables, Cosette, the daughter of Fantine and her unknown lover, was abandoned when she was still in the womb by the lover, which caused emotional and eventually the death of Fantine. When Fantine left the child with the Thenardiers to look for work elsewhere, the Thenardiers abused the child as well as Fantine. They asked for more and more money from Fantine and “when this sum was spent, the Thenardiers began to look upon the little girl as a child

administered “justice.” From this point on, Javert’s pursuit of Valjean dominates much of the story; however, numerous other story lines develop as well, the most important involving Valjean’s adoption of Cosette (Amanda Seyfried). Cosette’s mother, Fantine (Anne Hathaway), is thrown into abject poverty when a foreman at Valjean’s factory unjustly terminates her employment. Eventually Valjean learns of Fantine’s

and emotion the movie presents to the public. Turning to prostitution, Fantine loses her dignity she sings "I Dreamed a Dream" displaying her pain to the audience. Along with her display of emotion, people can visualize what times were like in the 1800s. "As to the mother, she seemed poor and sad; she had the appearance of a working women who is seeking to return to the life of a peasant. It was Fantine." (Hugo 41-42). Fantine had

the life of the main character, Jean Valjean. However, he is not the only character that experiences redemption. Fantine, Javert, and Marius also receive redemption—either God’s, the audience’s, or by another person. Fantine receives redemption from God in Les Miserables. As a single mother, Fantine suffers a life of hardship through a series of ill-fated events. Eventually, Fantine is forced onto the street, turning to prostitution and even sells her hair and teeth as the only

Discipleship is characterized by how well we succeed in following God. During the course of the movie Les Miserables, the main character, Jean Val Jean, develops the qualities of being a faithful disciple. The four main criteria of being an excellent disciple are that a disciple must put personal desires aside, accept suffering, serve others, and love others, even those who are our enemies. At first, Jean Val Jean was lacking in compassion for others and faith for God, and was even imprisoned for

piece, sung by Fantine during act one of Les Misérables (1980). Fantine has just been fired from her factory job after it is discovered that she has an illegitimate child and takes to selling herself on the streets to pay for medicine for her daughter. It is here that ‘I Dreamed a Dream,’ is sung as a way of progressing the story and providing a realisation by the character of her unfortunate situation in life with the song being composed as a way of expressing the feelings of Fantine as she wonders