Girl With A Pearl Earring And Les Miserables Literary Analysis

In Girl With A Pearl Earring and Les Miserables, Griet and Cosette are mistreated by the higher class. Cosette is Fantine’s daughter who is given to the Thenardiers, a family of innkeepers, because Fantine knows she cannot take care of Cosette. While at the Thenardiers’s inn, Cosette is abused and forced to do extortionate tasks she is barely able to do, like fetch water in the dark with a bucket larger than her. She is given no mercy, because of the “fierce mistress and venomous master” she is being ordered by (Hugo, p. 649). Because Cosette is the daughter of a poor working class woman, the Thenardiers, a relatively rich family, treat her horribly. Cosette has to bow to their demands because being from a lower class, there is nothing she