Fantine Conclusion

In conclusion Fantine has endured so many stuff in her life, first she grew up with a nice childhood but it went by with her lover who swept her happy life away. Her lover left her a beautiful but sacrificing gift, Cosette, who she needs to maintian feed and give her the things she never had. Of course Cosette didnt grew with her mother. Fantine sundered her daughter to the Thernardier because she needed to work in the city and that was not a place for Cosette. In the time that Fantine was not in the tavern, the Thernadiers treated her as a domestic lady. On the other hand when she was working in the city she was working with a spinning jenny where she got fired when the factory knew her past. She sold her hair, her teeth and ended up selling herself too! She became a prostitute to be able to maintain her daughter. Just as she was very sick and about to die, Jean Valjean appeared to the rescue and offered himself to take care of Cosette who embraces him as her father and he embraces her as her daughter. Fantine considers Jean Valjean as an angel who descended to help Cosette, but not for her.. it was to late for Fantine she was dying. Fantine was not only a signal for hope for Jean, but for those who gained honestly their lives and those who are struggling for hope and are still looking for it.

Valjean's Sacrifice to Fantine

"...Oh, Fantine, our tie is running out, But Fantine, I swear on my life, Look, M'sieur, where all the children play, Be at peace, be at peace evermore. My cosette... Shall live under my protection..." At the Les Miserables Musical, in the song Fantine's Death/ Come to me This is the fantastic scene of the book sung when Jean Valjean is taking an oath of protecting Cosette for Fantine, because she is dying and she cannot do it anymore. She also mentions that she loves Cosette and to tell her that she is still sleeping that she will see her when she wakes up. In other words, that she will be waiting for Cosette in the better place she is now.

Fantine's Dream

"I had a dream my life would be, So different from this hell I'm living, So different now from what it seemed, Now life has killed the dream I dreamed." This section of I Dreamed a Dream has a personification very importaint to understand Fantine. The section that says: "Now life has killed the dream I dreamed". The personification goes back into her life in the time where she had her young love, with her boyfriend that got her pregnant. She had her life planned when her dream became a nightmare when her boyfriend left her. Not that Fantine doesnt want Cosette, its the fact that she struggles to keep herself and her child alive.

Fantine's Imagery

Fantine is a seamstress unjustly fired once her employer learns about her scandalous past. Abandoned by her lover, she is hungry, penniless, and unable to care for her daughter, Cosette. First she sells her hair, then her teeth, before finally prostituting herself. At this stage of the story, Fantine has endured all, borne all, experienced all, suffered all, lost all, wept for all. She is resigned, with that resignation that resembles indifference as death resembles sleep. When Jean Valjean arrives to aid her, Fantine wants him to take care of her,saving her from the Thernadiers because they consider her a domestic slave, and Fantine doesnt want that for her daughter.

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Who are the Thernadier?

"The belong to that bastard class formed of a low people who have risen, and intelligent people who have fallen, which lies between the class called middle and lower, and which unite some of the faults of the matter with nearly all the vices of the former without possessing the generous impulses of the workmen, or the respectability of the bourgeois." (Hugo 45) Madame and Mosuire Thernadier are a pair of decievers who dont feel pitty. They heard Fantine's story and it doesnt matter how miserable it was, they still found another reason to charge her extra money.

Fantine's Story

"...she said she was a working woman, and her husband was dead." (Hugo 41-42)Fantine lied about her husband. Her husband was not dead at the time, it was a time of young love and foolish romance, where he left Fantine pregnant and disappeared, leaving Fantine with her baby, Cosette, as said in I Dreamed a Dream one of the songs in the Les Miserables' musical. "...He skept a summer by my side, He filled my days with endless wonder, He took my childhood in his stride, But he was gone when atutumn came..."
The single mother needed help to support her, to help her with the baby. Fantine stopped by a tavern owned by the Thernadiers. There Fantine humbly asks the family to take care and feed Cosette while shes gone to the city while she works, because she cannot take Cosette with her.

The Ruin of Women by Starvation

Victor Hugo created Fantine to portrait this theme of the story. Fantine is the face of the ruin of women by starvation. Hugo's picture of Fantine’s mistreatment differentiates the honest, hardworking poor from the scrounging opportunitism of the working class Thernardiers. By placing in Fantine with the Thernadiers, Hugo suggests that poverty does not necessarily equal indecency. In doing so, he expresses disapproval of a system that allows the indecent poor to survive even as it crushes the honest and needy. Fantine has always suffered from the greed of others, nevertheless society has held her accountable for her behavior.