Characters with The Miserable Life in Les Miserable

Les Miserable

Have you ever known a person whose life was very miserable?

Maybe you have. In the novel Les Miserable many of the characters show a

miserable life due to circumstances that happened in their past. These

characters are like put into a ring of fire in which every event that happens

in Les Miserable. These characters are Eponine, Jean Valjean, Cossette,

Gavrouche, Marius,and Fantine. other characters such as Thernardier are

characters who are the antagonist of the story who do robbery and many

other bad deeds throughout the whole story. These characters have

exemplified a miserable life due to circumstances that had happened in their past

lives. Courage, bravery, and patience are what many of the characters show

throughout the story.

One character that explefied a miserable life was

Eponine. Eponine was born in an evil family called the Thernardiers'. She

had to work very hard and was fed very little food. It was cold and her

parents led her to the wrong road in life. As she grew up she involved with

her parents in robbing and thievery. She was in the wrong path to

destruction. When Marius came into her life everything changed. Through

Marius’s love and redemption she had changed, but when she found out

that Marius loved Cossette the miserable life came back again to her. She

helped Marius find Cossette. She loved Marius a lot but ...

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...ity, but they also take every opportunity to make her circumstances even

more desperate. Fantine was a women who was a honest and hard working

women. Many people such as Thernardier deceived because she was not smart

and was to easy to take advantage of. She suffered a lot and in the end died of

shock and depression.

Many of these characters such as Fantine and

those others talked about in Les Miserable are all portrayed as miserable people.

This does not mean that these characters have misery in their life, it means that

their life has problems due to circumstances such as Fantine who was being

deceived by people which caused problems in her life. One important message

that Les Miserable displays is that love is one of the most precious items that

Is given to another person.