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suitehearttts · 3 days
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somewhere beyond the barricade is there a world you long to see? | store
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motions1ckn3ss · 2 days
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cometomecosette · 2 months
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It's too bad that the musical of Les Mis downplays the parallels between Fantine and Enjolras and between Javert and Éponine. They're so unexpected and easy to miss the first time you read the novel, because the characters occupy such different worlds, but once you realize them, they're so striking!
And in the novel, both of these pairs of characters do seem to "trade" deaths.
Most obviously, Javert expects to die at the barricade, while Éponine contemplates drowning herself in the Seine, but the reverse happens.
More subtly, Fantine's last months seem to be leading toward Valjean reuniting her with Cosette. Even if we think her death is inevitable, we have reason to hope that at least she'll die happy, having seen her daughter, knowing she'll be cared for, and knowing her own sacrifices weren't in vain. But instead she dies in despair, thinking all is lost for herself, Valjean, and Cosette. Later, Enjolras is set up to die bravely but in total defeat and despair. But then Grantaire comes to his side, so he dies with a smile, knowing that at least one person, who once seemed to embody all the cynicism and apathy of Paris, was transformed by his ideals, which undoubtedly gives him hope that those ideals will live on after him and lead to change.
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leverontdemain · 3 months
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Jean Valjean pls bring Les amis home too🥺
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potatosonnet · 5 months
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Revolutionary twinks and shenanigans Requests and sketches to keep myself from internal death Also have a random Igor
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grandtyphoonpoetry · 5 months
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Victor Hugo was really out here introducing 1000 new characters in the back half of the brick and saying "oops sorry guys, here are some new little dudes you're gonna be obsessed with, yeah they're all just kids, yeah, you're gonna love them all, oh yeah also, they're all gonna die, in the same chapter yeah, sorry.."
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sirgawainofgalifrey · 7 months
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The REAL reason Les Mis is a great book is because it has the duality of you being able to randomly open it to any page and find the most beautiful-soul-crushing-poetic-timeless-eye-opening sentence ever
but also Victor Hugo consciously chose to make every single character is the lamest most socially inept mess and awkward crazy dork you've ever seen and it's great.
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oldbooksandnewmusic · 1 month
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vampire-mina · 6 months
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thinking about eponine saying “i’m the devil but it’s all the same to me” like how did victor hugo casually just write about a deeply traumatized girl believing that so deeply that she is unworthy of most things and evil but still performing small acts of kindness despite her shitty life (watering the flowers) and not become absolutely obsessed w her
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guhfis · 6 months
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mentally I'm in 2012 rn
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lowlowmaoo · 2 months
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I love him
But every day I'm learning
All my life
I've only been pretending …
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granhairdo · 2 months
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i’m the devil, but it’s all the same to me
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broncoburro · 3 months
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Marius (and Eponine - she knows her away around.)
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petitescargot · 3 months
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"God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.'
'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.'"
'Ponine. Part 2/2
Part 1
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leverontdemain · 21 days
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Happy National Women's Day🥖🌹
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potatosonnet · 11 months
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Hugo said Courfeyrac was a catboy
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