Les Misérables means (the miserable or  poor wretches)
By: Victor Hugo during 19th Century in France in the year 1862

Title: Les Misérables

Genre: Drama and Novel

Characters:

Jean Valjean -  He is the main character in the movie, the protagonist and he’s also a hero.

He is an ex-convict who had been imprisoned in 19 years for stealing a loaf bread.

Cosette -  Fantine’s daughter, who lives as Valjean’s adopted daughter after her mother dies.

Javert -  The Villan: He is inspector and the antagonist  in the movie. He works as a prison guard.

               Represents the corrupt justice system.

Fantine -  Mother of Cosette’s and she represents the destruction that nineteenth-century French society cruelly wreaks on the less fortunate.

Marius Pontmercy – The lover and a college student, son of Gillenormand and who falls in love with Cosette.

  

M. Myriel -  The bishop of Digne. M. Myriel is a much-admired clergyman whose great kindness and charity have made him popular throughout his parish.

M. Thénardier -  A cruel, wretched, money-obsessed man who first appears as Cosette’s keeper and tormentor.

Eponine -  The Thénardiers’ eldest daughter. Eponine is a wretched creature who helps her parents steal, but she is eventually redeemed by her love for Marius. She proves that no one is beyond redemption, and she ultimately emerges as one of the novel’s most tragic and heroic figures.

M. Gillenormand -  Marius’s ninety-year-old maternal grandfather.

Gavroche -  The Thénardiers’ oldest son.

Colonel Georges Pontmercy -  An officer in Napoléon’s army and Marius’s father.

Enjolras -  The leader of the Friends of the ABC.

Fauchelevent -  A critic of Valjean’s .

Petit-Gervais -  A small boy whom Valjean robs shortly after leaving Digne.

Champmathieu -  A poor, uneducated man who unfortunately resembles Valjean so much that he is identified, tried, and almost convicted as Valjean.

M. Mabeuf -  A churchwarden in Paris who tells Marius the truth about his father.

Patron-Minette -  Actually four people.

Felix Tholomyès -  Fantine’s lover in Paris.

Azelma -  The Thénardiers’ younger daughter.

Setting: France during 19^th century in the period of restoration.

Plot: Jean Valjean, known as Prisoner 24601, is released from prison and breaks parole to create a new life for himself while evading the grip of the persistent Inspector Javert. Set in post-revolutionary France, the story reaches resolution against the background of the June Rebellion.

Theme:  The Importance of Love and Compassion.

 

Symbolism: Silver Candlesticks

 

 

1.What does the title mean in relation to the film as a whole?

The title mean in relation to the film as a whole showing the trials, struggles, hardships, challenge, Power, Love and Compassion. The justice that they need and also most important the human rights of some characters in the movie.

2.Among the characters, to whom can you relate to?

I can relate to the main character that is  Jean Valjean  it’s because I see he’s sacrifice for being ex-convict who imprison and he struggle a lot. But, I admire for him because he has a strong personality and determination in his life and also a good man for me.

3.Which part of the presentation struck you the most? Why?

I struck me most when Fantine a working-class girl who leaves her hometown of Montreuil-sur-mer to seek her fortune in Paris. Because, Fantine’s  having a innocent affair with a dapper student named Tholomyès leaves her pregnant and abandoned. Although she is frail, she makes a Herculean effort to feed herself and her daughter, Cosette. Even as she descends into prostitution, she never stops caring for Cosette. She represents the destruction that nineteenth-century French society cruelly wreaks on the less fortunate.

4.What is the movie’s message?

For me, it’s is the time that we need to see the reality of what is government doing in the society. We should fight our rights so that we have called a human rights and no one is suffer. No matter what happen we should spread the love to those people that is worth it. Always have a positive thinking and a faith to God so that we can achieve peace.

5.Did I like this in general? Why?

Yes, because it is very interesting to watch like this classical movie and it bring a lot of message to the viewers to have a courage to pursue our own rights in life.

6.Did I agree with the main theme/purpose? Why or why not?

The Importance of Love and Compassion.  Yes I agree eventhough that they are facing a problems they have still a courage to survive it.

7.What specifically did I like/dislike? Why?

I like when Marius has in love with Cosette though he’s facing many problems he’s still brave to encounter struggles in life.

8.Are there any aspects of theme which are left ambiguous at the end? Why?

No, because the movie was really interesting to watch until the end.

9.How does this film relate to the things that are happening in your life?

It relate if sometimes I watch news in t.v and listening radio about of what is happening in our society that something is not good when it talks about of our government that is not good to handle in our country . I reflect what if there’s no corruption, crimins and etc. involved and I told that  everything must be ok that no matter what happen in our live we still have to keep strong and a faith in God because nothing is impossible to God of we are believe in him.