dedicates his life to imprisoning him again. Fantine: A struggling factory worker and mother of an illegitimate child‚ Cosette. Cosette: The illegitimate daughter of Fantine. Marius Pontmercy: A student revolutionary who is friends with the Thenardiers’ daughter‚ Éponine‚ but falls in love with Cosette. Madame Thénardier: A swindling innkeeper and Éponine’s mother.
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The Road To Mecca (Athol Fugard) 1. What is the reason for Marius’s visit? What does he want Helen to do? Marius had been to see Helen previously about her moving into an old age home. His primary reason for now being there is to see if Helen has made her decision on this matter. Marius asking Helen “You’re quite certain that you want to discuss this now‚ Helen?” shows that they were both fully aware of the reason for this visit by the Dominee. He is also concerned as to whether she is eating
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workers‚ and especially their children. Hugo calls for social action to improve the unfortunate poor’s lives. This excerpt describes the character Marius‚ and how he has worked very hard to succeed in life. Excerpt from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (1802-1885) Misery is the same with anything else. As time passes‚ it gradually becomes bearable. Marius had emerged from the narrow passage of his life; now the path widened out a bit. Through sheer hard work‚ courage‚ and a strong will‚ he had managed
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sacrificial. They put their lives in danger to help save others. People that sacrifice their lives are looked down and smiled at because people know that if they died they did it for a good reason. The characters that really showed that is Jean Valjean‚ Marius‚ and Eponine. They really showed how much love they had for some people in the book and the movie. The one character that stood out to me the most is Jean Valjean and how a good person he was. He would do anything for anyone in the movie as well
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Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman politician‚ general‚ and dictator that helped Rome expand. As a dictator‚ Caesar carried out reforms‚ helped the unemployed‚ reviewed the calendar‚ relieved debts‚ and enlarged the senate. As result of this‚ Caesar almost become emperor of Rome but he was assassinated by a group of conspirators in March 15‚ 44 B.C. Julius Caesar greatly helped the Roman Republic and his actions paved the way for the fall of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire.
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Movie Review I. Introduction Les Miserables‚ as a theatrical enterprise‚ was always about sweeping sentimentality and the grandiose 1862 Victor Hugo novel‚ which translates to‚ “The Victims‚” was never short on ennui either. This film version is a particular tearjerker because of the much-discussed live action singing and some excellent casting. II. Characters Jean Valjean - Cosette’s adopted father. Valjean is an ex-convict who leaves behind a life of hatred and deceit and makes his fortune
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MOVIE REPORT I. TITLE Les Misérables II. DIRECTOR Tom Hooper III. SCREENPLAY WRITER William Nicholson& Alain Boublil for the original French text Claude-Michel Schönberg for the script book Herbert Kretzner for the lyrics IV. PRODUCTION OUTFIT Paco Delgado is the head costume designer for the movie. The production created almost 2200 outfits. The costume play had to create a whole world‚ and used a lot of color and texture to bring the movie to life the way it was in France 1800s.
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CONTEXT Victor Hugo was born in 1802 in the French town of Besançon. His father was a general in Napoléon’s army‚ and much of his childhood was therefore spent amid the backdrop of Napoléon’s campaigns in Spain and in Italy. At the age of eleven‚ Hugo returned to live with his mother in Paris‚ where he became infatuated with books and literature. By the time he was fifteen‚ he had already submitted one poem to a contest sponsored by the prestigious French Academy. Hugo wrote prolifically in all
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marquisates‚ 195- a rank of a marquis The marquises can be identified when they wear their marquisates. 4. chagrin‚ 201- feeling of being vexed‚ humiliated or disappointed Marius did not feel chagrin when he was told he was going to meet him soon. 5. aggrandizement‚ 207- to make something larger than it actually is The more Marius learned about the history and his father the more he aggrandized his father. 6. capriciousness‚ 208- erratic‚ subject to sudden change Gillenormand’s
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History Final Chapter 5. 10. The peoples who the greatest influence upon Republican Rome were the A. Greeks. B. Etruscans. C. Latins. D. Carthaginians. Chapter 12. 3. Charlemagne’s Carolingian Empire accomplished all of the following except A. it depended upon the allegiance of courts who ruled for the monarch in local areas. B. it encompassed much of western and central Europe. C. it restored an urban economy based upon the use of money. D. it symbolized the fusion
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