Wedding Valjean And Cossets Love example essay topic

t Les Miserables Les Miserables is one of the most captivating plays of our lifetime! It grabs the audience and pulls you in head first. You can't take out eyes off of the stage, and even if you can, the music will take your breath away! I have seen the play 3 times and I don't think I enjoy anything in this world more than watching that play!

Les Miserables starts off on a chain gang in France. The sheriff comes out and gives one of the convicts his release papers. This convict is the lead role who name is Jean Valjean, who has served 19 years on the chain gang for stealing a mouthful of bread. Jean Valjean leaves the prison and sets out to find work. But no one will give him work because of his tattoo which reads 24601, his prison ID number. Then in the time when he couldn't be more down a priest invites Valjean to stay with him.

Despite the kind priest taking him in and feeding him, Valjean decides to take the silver from the table. In the run he gets captured be the police. But instead of telling the truth about Valjean thievery, he gives the criminal more silver and sends the police away. He makes Jean Valjean promise that he will become an honest man with this silver.

The next scene in 10 years later set in a factory where we meat the other main character, Fantine. As she is reading a letter her perverted boss snatches it up with his hands and reads it aloud. Fantine has a daughter that lives with an innkeeper and his wife who are the only ones in this whole play that give some comedy relief. They treat her daughter horribly and when the boss finds out that she has a daughter he thinks of her as a prostitute and kicks her out of the factory, which is in the town in which the new honest Valjean i the mayor. To support her child Fantine sells her chain and her locks of hair. Then later because she can't find work becomes a prostitute.

Later a respected person in the community felt an itch for a poke at a female and went to Fantine. Fantine realizes that day that she can no longer be a prostitute because of her morals and refuses. The man beats her and when Fantine fights back he drags her to the police. As the police are taking her away Jean Valjean, the mayor, comes in the stops them. He believes Fantine and promises to help her. Valjean goes to the innkeepers house and pays for their troubles even though they have been absolutely horrible and abusive to her.

The daughters name is Cosset and she instantly falls in love with her new "father". On the long trip home the two become very close and when they get back they find out that Fantine, Cossets mother has died. So Cosset agrees with delight to stay with Valjean. 20 years later in Paris we find that Cosset is grown up and Valjean has grown old and withered.

This is now the time of the French Revolution and you can smell war in the air. But an old face shows up, Shaver. Who is the sheriff that kept incarcerated for so many years. He has come back to take Valjean again. He has been hunting him for 30 years for parole violation. but Valjean refuses and the two get in a huge battle royal.

Jean Valjean is victorious and runs away. Cosset has no idea of her adopted fathers past and doesn't even know the story of her mother. Jean Valjean tells her and she is crushed that he kept this information from her for so long. But she gets over it by finding her love.

A young gentleman and her fall in love but are kept apart by the war. Him and Valjean go to war together and Valjean ends up saving his life. In the next scene there is an interesting twist! Everyone is on the battle field and Shaver is also fighting in the battle but is mistaken for a spy from the other army.

Valjean asks if he can be responsible for the prisoner and his wish is granted. But in the night he sneaks past the guards and cuts his enemy loose. After 19 years on a chain gang and 30 years of running, he cuts his enemy loose. But the day after that something horrible happens!

Cossets love is shot in the chest. Who else would show up and rescue the day, Valjean. Not even knowing that he is Cossets love he takes his still alive body away from the battle field and to the hospital. The revolution is now over and the French armies have won but in these last few scenes Cosset and her love get married and at the wedding Valjean and Cossets love recognize each other. There is an incredibly dramatic part here when they hug.

In the last scene we see and old ugly man on his death bed. Then a youthful face comes out all in white, Fantine ghost. Then another dressed in white then another. Everyone that was killed in the play was out on stage and in about a minuets time Jean Valjean leaves the stage just for a second and comes out in white also. They all had died and now they are all united again.

This play was just phenomenal. It opens your eyes to what war and love can do to people. It also opens your eyes to how miserable some people lived back in those days and still do today. The music is breathtaking and ads 200 percent to the plays dramatic effect. I would recommend seeing this play if its the last thing you ever do. I have seen it 3 times and I know I couldn't live without seeing it again!