Les Misérables

Families• What are examples of the fragility of

families in the story?• What do you think Hugo would say

causes families to break up?

Money• What attitudes

towards wealth poverty and money do we see in the film?• Make a mind

map.

Mercy• Did Jean Valjean do

wrong by stealing the silver from the bishop? Do you blame him for doing it?

If you don't blame him for stealing the silver, where do you draw the line between crime which should be punished and crime that can be excused?

Women• How are Fantine, Cosette and

Eponine different?• What do these three women have in

common?

Law• How would you

describe Javert?• What is Javert’s

main problem?• Clearly Javert loves

the law, and that’s not bad, however, in this story it is. How can that be?

Love

• Victor Hugo states, “The power of a look has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved. Few people dare now to say that two people have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.”

Do you agree or disagree with this idea?