#les mis fantine

[mimmixerenard]

Chose promise, chose due ; here's my design for our lovely Fantine <3

"Six months! six months of prison! Six months in which to earn seven sous a day! But what will become of Cosette?"

(Also, yes, I only have bright af highlighters colours available to me at the moment—)

#les miserables #les mis #les miz #les miserables fanart #les mis fanart #fantine les mis #fantine #les mis fantine

[fruity-pontmercy]

GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS!!!!!!!

*slams hands on imaginary internet desk*

SLIPPING THROUGH MY FINGERS BY ABBA

BUT

make it FANTINE AND COSETTE

#Tw caps #Les Mis #les mis west end #les miz #les miserables #les amis de l'abc #the brick #musical theatre #cosette #enjolras #cosette fauchelevent #les mis au #les mis fanart #les mis headcanons #les mis modern #Fantine les mis #Fantine #Les mis fantine #les mis cosette

[bumblingest-bee]

every day i think about that one illegal high school production of les miserables on youtube where they changed lovely ladies from being about sex workers to being about like... selling bread... but they kept all the lines about "waiting for the customers who only come at night" and "standing up or lying down or any way at all" which paints a strange and delightful picture of some kind of nighttime bread black market

#also fantine is selling clothes which makes it unintentionally funny when the customer just wants to get a closer look at a scarf #and she slaps him for absolutely no reason #bee posts nonsense #theatre #les mis

[tedhugheshater]

Thinking about how Victor Hugo wrote one of the most famous portrayals of prostitution that is sympathetic to the prostituted woman (Fantine from Les Miserables) and shows how she is forced by poverty to sell her body, how it clearly is a traumatic experience, and how much disrespect the pimps have for her in reality... And yet he continued constantly visiting brothels and using the women's bodies - so much so that a very famous rumor was created that all the brothels in Paris closed down to mourn him after his death... Kill all men?

#not to pretend Fantine's character is the epitome of sympathy though (lolz) but it makes me feel insane #like he literally KNEW they were only there because of being forced (sexually or economically or socially) but he DID NOT CARE #like........ #mine #history #radblr #victor hugo #les mis #anti prostitution #🐝 #hall of fame

[ofpd]

the reason enjolras doesnt know how to talk to gavroche is bc he was never a child himself like he just spontaneously appeared as a 17-year-old revolutionary in paris the day fantine died and then his appearance never changed ever

#txt #les mis #does fantine have a canon death date. i couldn't find one easily #it's 1823 though of course

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

maybe not the absolute best thing about les miserables the novel (it’s a long book) but the one that stood out the most to me and has remained with me most strongly is that when the book is explaining to us the plight of fantine, who basically like finds herself poor and knocked up bc iirc she hooked up with some fuckboy who was never gonna stick around, victor hugo really takes pains to be clear that fantine did a lot of really dumb shit. she made stupid ass choices. she was naive and impulsive and unwise and myopic. it’s not a story where a tragic heroine did everything right and still got screwed. but the moral argument put forth by, i mean, to some degree the entire novel but particularly (to my recollection) by this section is essentially like, isn’t it so fucked up that we live in a society where someone can be functionally condemned to a life of suffering for the crime of being a fallible human being in their youth? isn’t being young and stupid and getting to move on from that a human right that we are denying people? shouldn’t you be allowed to be kind of an idiot without ruining your entire life? it’s such a clearly and expansively empathetic view and it’s an idea that people obviously continue to struggle with based on Any Time Anything Happens Ever and also one that i feel like continues to be rare in narrative art or media, at least expressed this fully or strongly.

#the fantine section also has my favorite line in les mis #which my translation recorded as: #Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour. #insane that the most trenchant line about celebrity culture came from a 19th century french dude but there we are

[cometomecosette]

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.

#les mis #les miserables #javert #eponine #fantine #enjolras #tw: death

[oldbooksandnewmusic]

#les mis #les miserables #Poll #jean valjean #fantine #Cosette #eponine #marius pontmercy #javert #enjolras #les amis #monsieur thenardier #madame thenardier #patron minette #bishop myriel #the brick #les mis letters #I don’t think I’m missing any one major but if so I’m very sorry #this book just got too many people in it idk what else to say man

[rosepompadour]

She’s a star-gazer, a dreamy, sensitive soul. She's a nymph taking refuge in her illusions. She wanders about in a garden, this sweet fanciful girl.

Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (1862)

#i am balls-deep in my les mis tag and i don't have a single fantine post #i have brought shame to myself and my entire family #les miserables #victor hugo #literature

[on-holidays-by-mistake]

Illustrations to Les Misérables by David Sierra Listón (source)

#les mis #les miserables #art #david sierra liston #fantine #javert #jean valjean #marius pontmercy #enjolras #gavroche #cosette

[secretmellowblog]

Another issue I have with Les Mis adaptations is how the horror of prostitution is always made the Central Focus of Fantine’s story, instead of the horror of poverty. Idk when you’re used to the musical it’s almost a bit surprising when you read the brick and find out that most of Fantine’s chapters are about ......the mundane horror of living paycheck to paycheck, and giving up everything that makes you happy in order to make ends meet.

Even when book!Fantine does become a prostitute, the horror of it is more like “because of her job the police are Not on her side, she is stigmatized/considered inherently illegal, and so she has no legal way to defend herself when she’s attacked.”

Most of Fantine’s chapters center on her slowly descending deeper into poverty over the course of years, learning to live on less and less and less, and gradually being forced to give up control over every little thing that gives her any joy. She’s initially living an austere but somewhat stable life— and then she unexpectedly loses her job at Valjean’s factory. She’s forced to return all her rented furniture piece by piece because she can’t afford it, she can’t keep a rosebush in her window because she doesn’t have the time to water it; in order to pay rent she has to sew all day and into the night, using the candlelight from a neighbor’s garret. The only thing that brings her joy is brushing her hair; and then she's forced to sell her hair, and then forced to sell her teeth.....

The tragedy of Fantine's plotline in the book isn't that she became a sex worker, it's that poverty ripped away her autonomy in the same way it ripped away Valjean's. And I think that tragedy really deserves more focus in adaptations, because it's such an important part of the book.

#les mis #fantine #;___: #random fantine emotions tonight

[pilferingapples]

Oh good! Fantine's happy. It was a tough story but we got there! Good job everyone, novel's over, everyone go home!!!!!

#Les Mis Letters #Fantine Happy

[granhairdo]

can we start using this les mis 1980 image as a meme because its perfect meme material

#les mis #sorry fantine

[wanderinghedgehog]

Been thinking about Fantine and her portrayals. As a character, she has so much depth and emotion. She is an undoubtably good character, but she’s not good in the way Valjean is. Fantine isn’t a reserved saint. She lashes out when she’s been wronged and she does things out of desperation that make people look down on her. But she’s good and the audience wants to see her happy. While Valjean refuses to express the anger he feels towards the society that wronged him, Fantine proves it is possible to express this anger and not lose a bit of audience sympathy. I have yet to find one person who doesn’t cheer her on when she retaliates against Bamatabois. Of course, there are in universe consequences for her anger, however unfair they may be. But my point is that the audience isn’t encouraged to condemn her as well.

On a different note, I also find her placement near the beginning of the story very interesting. In many ways, she is the initial call to action, one that emerges before the barricade but gives it an emotional leg to stand on when it does appear. The resistance coming from Fantine gives only more reason to ensure that it continues.

#I’m sure someone else has explained this better #but I’ve just been thinking about Fantine lately #she’s such a fascinating character #les mis #les miserables #fantine #rambling

[unicorngunter]

Happy 10th anniversary to the sammich on parole movie

#Les miserables #Les mis #Les miserables 2012 #jean valjean #javert #gavroche #eponine thenardier #Cosette #Fantine #Grantaire #Enjolras #Enjoltaire

[ueinra]

Les Misérables | Retold & Illustrated By Marcia Williams (2014)

I think one shame is enough.

poor woman… SNIP SNIP A WIG FOR THE RICH!!!!!

Such a mood.

THIS IS THE SWEETEST THING EVERRR!! and pls appreciate Cosette's drawings on the back <3

I laughed out loud when I noticed a picture of Cosette on the wall of Marius's room, but what made me laugh more were the hearts near his butt.

Oh, u won't.

#les miserables #les mis #fantine #jean valjean #cosette #marius #Marcia Williams #children books