sage

I had initially planned on making this point because I figured I could be a little cheeky and twist the narrative a bit in Marius' favour (as they do in the musical)- as Marius KIND OF gives his family values up and fights for the rebellion, and I could KIND OF make a link, but at the end of the day, try as I might to make the association, Marius was completely willing to make up with his monarchist grandfather as soon as he blessed him and Cosette. The dude only actually helped at the barricades because his girlfriend was moving away, and he had very little interest in actually surviving. Talk about noble.

To be fair, this now creates an interesting topic for me to discuss once I finish my coursework- because Marius really isn't as selfless as he is portrayed to be in the musical, similar to Eponine- the tragic heroine of the story. Yes, his reasons often are respectable. He acted quite a bit out of love for Cosette and his father. That being said, his actions still create a sort of "morally gray" characteristic about him, and that is hardly addressed at all in the musical. I'm not saying it needed to be addressed, but the musical therefore makes certain characters a lot more likeable than they actually are, and in turn makes other characters a lot LESS likeable, because there just isn't enough time to explore them.

Back to my point. I'm just going to compare Darnay to Valjean and go on my merry way. Just wanted to come on here with an incomprehensible rant.

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but thing is

whats the similarity between marisette and eposette?

cosette.

"what if that was a real gun? And what if there were bullets in it?"

agog and aghast, i ask what on earth he's on about, because obviously the gun would never be real and OBVIOUSLY the gun would never be loaded.

"And what if he shot a goose down and it fell into the audience?"

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ah yes, the distant honk of a creature, as the barricades go silent- and a goose falls dead into some poor, unsuspecting audience members lap.

its genius.