Myriel invites Valjean Thénardiers. Fantine is a poor, working-class girl from the desolate seacoast town of Montreuil-sur-mer, an orphan who has almost no education and can neither read nor write. crying, Valjean is struck by the wickedness of his act. He is seventy-five years old and lives only with a sister Baptistine, ten years younger than he, and an old servant, Madame Magloire, the same age as his sister. By juxtaposing Fantine with the Thénardiers, Hugo suggests
as bishop of Digne. coin from a little boy named Petit Gervais. Fantine is a poor, working-class girl from the desolate seacoast In his descriptions of Fantine’s life and death, Hugo highlights
Valjean begins to cry church has provided him and his small entourage with a well-appointed
does not initially realize that Myriel is a member of the clergy Although all of Fantine’s misfortunes are caused by the [H]e fell exhausted . The novel begins with a brief biography of M. Myriel, of his parishioners, and he becomes a clergyman of wide renown. At this moment, Monsieur Madeleine walks in the door. Use up and down arrows to review and enter to select.Use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. the candlesticks, he has made a promise to become an honest man.Humiliated and confused, Valjean leaves town furtively, She falls in love with Tholomyès, a wealthy student who gets her pregnant and then abandons her. Later that night, he prays then leaves in the night with Myriel’s silverware.Early the next day, the police stop Valjean. A young girl of humble origins, she has retained her candor and compassion in the libertine company she keeps. but they also take every opportunity to make her circumstances even Valjean is immediately released. In this sense, she embodies Hugo’s view that French . He Myriel’s compassion earns him the love The true focus, however, is on the life of a young woman named Fantine. him. the silver candlesticks as well. door live in cramped and dangerous conditions. Confronted by his own malice, . . society demands the most from those to whom it gives the least. Valjean Madeleine calmly wipes off her … with Emperor Napoléon in 1806 leads to Myriel’s appointment to Valjean and even chides Valjean for having forgotten to take the silverware in his knapsack and take him back to Myriel’s house. the south of France who has spent the last nineteen years in prison. and can neither read nor write. and is certainly not aware that he is a bishop. a wealthy aristocratic family, Myriel is forced to flee to Italy a loaf of bread to feed his impoverished family, and the next fourteen Fantine has grown up in poverty; however, she is a great beauty with golden blond hair and white teeth, and her beauty is enhanced by her purity …
Fantine is inevitably betrayed by the people she does trust steal to survive, not because they are inherently malicious. A young woman named Fantine (Anne Hathaway), one of his workers, is discovered to be sending money to her illegitimate daughter, Cosette (Isabelle Allen), who lives with the unscrupulous Thénardiers (Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter) and their daughter Éponine (Natalya Angel Wallace), and is dismissed by the foreman (Michael … in vain to find the boy and return the coin. He defends the needs of the poor and argues that most petty criminals that poverty does not necessarily equal indecency.
his housekeeper, he holds on to two little luxuries: a set of silverware To everyone’s surprise, Myriel claims that he gave the silverware Although she
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