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New Brick Eve! Vol. 1 Fantine
Okay. It's beginning with the First Volume of the Entire Brick, <Fantine>.
I know this is the most important volume of Les Mis, since what Bishop did to the traveller who entered Digne influences a lots of things in the later in the Brick plot.
But honestly, it's the most hard-to-read volume at the same time. This does not mean Mr. Hugo enterferes with his endless speech, but It's really harsh to the characters suffer.
Like Valjean stole bread for saving his sister's children and became a convict named 24601, Cosette getting abused by the entire Thenardiers and became the housemaid, and Fantine wretched by her 'lover' and falling into the woman of town. It's just like Mr. Hugo mentioned in the preface, 'the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light'.
However, there are still best scenes in volume 1 too! I pick three.
First is of course, Bishop Myriel doing his job to Valjean, which leads the later incidents that happening in the entire Brick.
Second is Madeleine lifting the cart of Fauchelevent. Though he got suspicious sight of Javert but he gained another strong patron for him and this resulted him became the mayor.
And finally, the third scene is that famous 'Who am I?' scene at the Court of Arras. He did saved the innocent man, though he could not be done with the town and poor mother.
In conclusion, it might be too harsh to read, and might be less dramatic than the later volumes, but this volume 1: Fantine is the most important one since it makes the hardened base structure of the plot. I will be back tomorrow with the Volume 2!
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
Volume 4
Volume 5
Title card image is from @lesmisletters, and Clips are from <Il cuore di Cosette>.
"his hair, which had still been gray on his arrival in Arras, was now entirely white: it had turned white during the hour he had sat there."
les misérables 1.7.11
my dude literally just
Oddly enough, one of the strongest criticisms of the criminal justice system in today’s chapter comes from Javert (although he means it as a statement of fact, not as a negative):
“To climb a wall, to break a branch, to purloin apples, is a mischievous trick in a child; for a man it is a misdemeanor; for a convict it is a crime. Robbing and housebreaking—it is all there.”
The phrasing of the statement alone indicates its absurdity. While the main part of the “crime” is “purloining apples” (stealing), Javert starts with simple things like “climbing a wall” and “breaking a branch” that have no discernable impact on anyone’s well-being, financial or otherwise. All of them are grouped together into the category of “crime,” highlighting the absurdity of that label in the first place.
Javert is also very attentive to the different ways in which this act is viewed depending on the classification of the actor. It’s only really a crime when a convict does it. It’s such a commonplace act for children that it’s only considered a sign of mischief, and while it’s still punishable for other adults, it’s not going to get them life in prison (which is the sentence he mentions for Champmathieu). In reality, children and adults probably steal apples for the same two reasons: a prank, or out of hunger. The punishment has no relation to the actual severity of the act (which can’t be that serious if it’s accepted when children do it) or the motive behind it; it’s entirely based on how society perceives a person already. Society literally waits for men like Jean Valjean and/or Champmathieu to do something as minor as “break a branch” to confirm their criminality.
Belgian collector's cards advertising Les Misérables (1934) at the Majestic in Gand [source]

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LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - The System of Denials, LM 1.7.10 ( Les Miserables 1925)
The man ceased speaking, and remained standing. He had said these things in a loud, rapid, hoarse voice, with a sort of irritated and savage ingenuousness. Once he paused to salute some one in the crowd. The sort of affirmations which he seemed to fling out before him at random came like hiccoughs, and to each he added the gesture of a wood-cutter who is splitting wood. When he had finished, the audience burst into a laugh. He stared at the public, and, perceiving that they were laughing, and not understanding why, he began to laugh himself.
It was inauspicious.
Was Jean Valjean right when he turned himself in in place of Champmathieu?
Yes, an innocent man shouldn't go to prison just so JVJ could be free.
No, Montreuil-sur-Mer needed Madeleine, and its downfall is on him.
He could've found a way to keep them both out of prison.
Have you ever thought about how Valjean always tries to do the Good Thing even if it hurts him? Then look at this, he does a very biblical thing in the Champmathieu trial segment!
Remember the parable of the lost sheep? Basically we have this shepherd who has 100 sheep but when one gets lost he goes looking for it, even if that means leaving other 99.
“I am the master of hundreds of workers
They all look to me
Can I abandon them, how would they live if I am not free?”
So, yeah, there it is. How very biblical of you, Valjean...