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Lots of brilliant Cosette notes on today's chapter alr 😍 so I'm just gonna throw in my two cents too!
Firstly, I love this quote:
God willed that Cosette’s love should encounter one of the loves which save.
especially after the Romeo and Juliet comparison from earlier. R+J is very romantic pair but ultimately theirs is a love that ultimately kills them, and so Hugo wants to set Marisette apart (and 'better' in a way) by assuring us that their love is something that will have a happy ending. And in a literal sense, Cosette's love DOES save Marius too! It is her love for him that pushes Valjean to get him from the barricades, thus labelling her as his saviour too.
Also, the contrast between Marisette's very 'pure' and sexless relationship does remind us sadly of Fantine and Tholomyès. It is lucky that Marius is such a sweet and innocent man because if he was anything like Tholomyès, Cosette would have quite literally shadowed her mother's fate. It makes me think about what would have happened if Cosette and Theodule had actually got together; I doubt their relation would have been anything as pure and chaste as Marisette.
And finally, I adore Cosette's lines:
“Monsieur, you are handsome, you are good-looking, you are witty, you are not at all stupid, you are much more learned than I am, but I bid you defiance with this word: I love you!”
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“Don’t cough, sir; I will not have people cough on my domain without my permission. It’s very naughty to cough and to disturb me. I want you to be well, because, in the first place, if you were not well, I should be very unhappy. What should I do then?”
Her speeches have a healthy sense of sarcasm while still being full of love for Marius. She is also very clearly headstrong— "I will not have people cough on my domain without my permission"? What a slay. Obviously being sarcastic about 'owning' their space but in this private sphere of theirs, she is free to put her foot down and command him, even if its teasingly so. It reminds me of this line a few chapters back:
Ten years later, with the love of Marius in her heart, she would have answered: “A pedant, and insufferable to the sight! You are right!”
when Valjean points out how weird Marius is. All this tell us that Cosette clearly loves to make fun of her loved ones! She's so full of spunk and life and nothing like the usual image one might have had of a lonely, sheltered bourgeois girl.
Overall, a very cute romantic chapter. Hugo does have some Weird Comments when it comes to women again but this is still one of many Cosette’s shining moments where we as readers learn a little bit more about how assertive and bright of a character she is :)
Jean Valjean saving Marius in the musical: "he's like the son I might have known"
Jean Valjean in the brick: 'he gazed at him in that half-light with an inexpressible hatred'
Jean Valjean saving Marius in the musical: "he's like the son I might have known"
Jean Valjean in the brick: 'he gazed at him in that half-light with an inexpressible hatred'
also that poll now has me thinking about how things would go if Marius WAS the only one who had died...
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Obsessed with Javert and Marius’s interactions in the book.....literally not a single brain cell between them. Legendary
I adore how in the brick, jvj absolutely HATES marius and can't stand the fact that he of all people is stealing his daughter away.
Like in being him home you've got jvj going on about how he's like a son to him, and then you read the book and that couldn't be FURTHER from the truth.
Just the thought of this good man who has spent nine years overcome the hatred instilled into him by society taking one look at this silly little boy and going "absolutely not".
daily reminder that Marius got a law degree and passed the bar but chose not to use it because he wanted to daydream
It seemed to Cosette that Marius had a crown, and to Marius that Cosette had a halo.
marius is so “oh no! anyway” about eponine confessing her love and then immediately dying that 1862 girlies could have started using “and by the way, monsieur marius, i believe that i was a little bit in love with you” as a preface to announce major geopolitical events
I was a good boy today. Fired a pistol into the air at the Gorbeau House. Mister Inspector rewarded me by giving me the chance to high-five him. My little legs tried and tried but I couldn’t jump up high enough to slap palms. got tiring but he told me “maybe one day”
Despite all the sadness of the end of Les Mis, I love this bit of dialogue between Jean Valjean and Cosette:
"But you ought to have a maid.” “Have I not Marius?
Marius in a maid outfit canon
I've been listening to the Percy Jackson musical on loop and I love AUs so... Les Amis as half bloods?
-combeferre is a son of athena and he just thrives with his fellow nerds and also designs the most epic chariots
-courfeyrac is a son of hermes and his father may be the god of thieves but the only thing he’s known for stealing is people’s hearts <3 <3 <3 and also the occasional bag of chips
-marius (son of athena) is convinved that cosette can use charmspeak but really she’s just really pretty and he would do anything for her
-a certain son of apollo can’t seem to look away from a certain son of dionysus hmmmm
-they get really into capture the flag what’s that oh look i wrote a fanfiction about this once maybe check it out
my favorite part in the brick that i cannot believe didn't make it in the musical adaptation is when marius collects a tissue he thinks belongs cosette and he treasures it dearly he's like omg <33 but it's actually valjean's
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