Analysis of Fantine's Characters in Les Miserables

Fantine: A female worker in Jean Valjean's factory. She had a rough youth, but she was maliciously abandoned after being pregnant with her boyfriend's flesh and blood. For the sake of her daughter's life, she had to submit to humiliation, foster her in a pub owner's house in Montfermeil, come to Paris to make a living, and send money back regularly. However, because the illegitimate daughter was exposed by her colleagues and was driven out of the factory, she had to sell her jewelry, long hair and even her body, and unfortunately became. Fortunately, I met Jean Valjean, entrusted my daughter's future and let her die peacefully.

A few years after he was released from prison, Jean Valjean turned over a new leaf and became the mayor, realizing the perfection of human nature, sympathy for suffering and help for the unfortunate. But at this moment, a prostitute appeared. She was Fantine, a female worker in Jean Valjean's factory. She had a rough youth, but was maliciously abandoned after being pregnant with her boyfriend's flesh and blood. For the sake of her daughter's life, she had to bear the pain, put her in foster care at a tavern owner's house in Montfermeil and came to Paris to make a living herself. When Jean Valjean saw Fantine's helplessness, he held out his hand. This is the greatest embodiment of humanitarianism and the most beautiful sublimation of human nature. Fantine was a factory girl, Fantine's daughter.

Originally, there was a beautiful youth, but at that most beautiful age, she dedicated her youth and love to an aristocratic youth, that is, her boyfriend at that time, but only her boyfriend, not her husband. The illusion of love led to Fantine's tragic ending, and finally she was abandoned by her boyfriend, but she was pregnant with her boyfriend's child. In the end, she can only gain the right to live by pleasing men. Here we see the most tragic fate of women in a patriarchal society, and also see the oppression and defilement of women by society. Finally, Fantine wanted to foster her children in a hotel owner's house in Montfermeil. It is precisely because I gave my hope and best love to someone I don't even know myself that tragedy followed. Here we saw the darkness of the society at that time, and even saw Hugo's reflection on the French Revolution, because the hotel owner was the one who participated in the Revolution. In this way, Fantine's fate was suppressed by her own children, who were controlled by the hotel owner. The hotel owner and his own boss extorted and cheated Fantine again and again, and extorted money again and again. This passive acceptance has also made Fantine's most touching and greatest maternal love. Fantine sacrificed almost everything for her children, and later even sold her two front teeth. It is because of all kinds of sins and the oppression of human love by Fantine's maternal love that Fantine finally died.

Is there love between Fantine and Jean Valjean?

Regarding whether there is love between Fantine and Jean Valjean, I think there should be, because two tragic lives are interdependent in a tragic society, and Fantine's misery and Jean Valjean's misery constitute the interdependence of fate, so there should be love. But Fantine had no chance, and finally ended her miserable young fate under the threat of the hotel owner. When she died, she gave all her hopes and sustenance to Jean Valjean. Maybe we'll watch Fantine here.

Hugo's belief in human nature makes him hope to find a way out of human destiny through human nature, and he hopes to establish a guardian of love through human nature. This thought originated from the social essence and reality of France at that time, and more from the world form and human desire in the19th century.