Les miserables
The Role of Economics in Human Life
In the film Les Miserables, most of the scenes focus on how human strives for his own survival. Like in the character of Fantine who symbolizes the powerless and discriminated women at that time due to lack of education and wealth. They are also those who are good but poor and hopeless women condemned by the cruel society. Moreover, through the character of Fantine reveals the hypocrisy of the society that ostracizes and discriminates women. Through these miseries in life, Fantine drowned herself in shame and sacrifice her self-worth for her daughter and for her own survival. This shows how the structure of the society turns good and innocent one into prostitutes, beggars, as well as criminals, and all other “dirt” on the face of the society. This is also evident on the character of Valjean who become a bread thief in order to survive. As in the case of Valjean’s and Patron-Minette’s crime, criminal-injustice is also prevalent by that time. Their society does not really punish criminals of bigger crimes which also show injustice because of social classes.
The social conditions during the 19th century such as discrimination and exploitation on labor, gender inequality, criminal-injustices, poor education of women, existence of social classes, and many more set fire to the French revolution. The film also shows the social impact of the numerous revolutions that took place in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century in France. The film showed us the uncertainty which political events imposed upon daily life. Because of the struggles and pain of the lower class, they realized that there is a need for them to eliminate the current political system in order for them to live a humane life. These events eventually pave way to a market economy through the desire of the people to end up the French Monarchy. The conditions of human life expressed in the film Les Miserables although happened between 18th to 19th centuries, may
In the film Les Miserables, most of the scenes focus on how human strives for his own survival. Like in the character of Fantine who symbolizes the powerless and discriminated women at that time due to lack of education and wealth. They are also those who are good but poor and hopeless women condemned by the cruel society. Moreover, through the character of Fantine reveals the hypocrisy of the society that ostracizes and discriminates women. Through these miseries in life, Fantine drowned herself in shame and sacrifice her self-worth for her daughter and for her own survival. This shows how the structure of the society turns good and innocent one into prostitutes, beggars, as well as criminals, and all other “dirt” on the face of the society. This is also evident on the character of Valjean who become a bread thief in order to survive. As in the case of Valjean’s and Patron-Minette’s crime, criminal-injustice is also prevalent by that time. Their society does not really punish criminals of bigger crimes which also show injustice because of social classes.
The social conditions during the 19th century such as discrimination and exploitation on labor, gender inequality, criminal-injustices, poor education of women, existence of social classes, and many more set fire to the French revolution. The film also shows the social impact of the numerous revolutions that took place in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century in France. The film showed us the uncertainty which political events imposed upon daily life. Because of the struggles and pain of the lower class, they realized that there is a need for them to eliminate the current political system in order for them to live a humane life. These events eventually pave way to a market economy through the desire of the people to end up the French Monarchy. The conditions of human life expressed in the film Les Miserables although happened between 18th to 19th centuries, may