Week 7

Literature and Film (7)

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Les Miserable 悲慘世界

Author: 

Victor Marie Hugo 

     A French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement.

     Outside France, his best-known works are the novels Les Miserables,1862

Characters

Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman )

*The protagonist of Les Miserables

* A prisoner in the Toulon prison in France

Javert (Russell Crowe )

*A police inspector who releases Jean Valjean on parole dedicates his life to imprisoning Valjean once again.

*“My duty is to the law.”

Fantine (Anne Hathaway )

*A worker of  Valjean’s factory

*Abandoned by her husband, she sends all the money she earns to her daughter, Cosette, who lives with the greedy innkeepers.

*Used to have faith in the world but life killed the dream she dreamed.

Cosette (Amanda Seyfried )

*Fantine’s illegitimate daughter

*Used to live with the innkeepers who spoil their own daughter but treat her as a slave.

Marius (Eddie Redmayne )

*Cosette's lover