Les Miserables Research Paper

The French Revolution was a time of extreme poverty and was also heavily based on King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Les Misérables is a Broadway musical and movie based on the book of the same name by Victor Hugo that was historically popular because it was supposed to be based on the French Revolution. The French Revolution and Les Misérables both showed an extravagant amount of poverty but Les Misérables did not show much about Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette even though the French Revolution revolved around them.
One of the very significant similarities between the French Revolution and Les Misérables was the excessive poverty. There was a great deal of poverty shown in the movie, such as the little eight to nine year old boy calling two toddlers his babies. This signified poverty because they were all probably abandoned by their parents because they couldn’t afford to keep them and provide them with food. Similarly, during the French Revolution, over 40,000 children were abandoned by their parents because they had to pay half of their income as a tax which meant they didn’t have enough money
Usually the French Revolution revolves around King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, but the movie was revolved around another character and showed few similarities to the French Revolution. Another one of the few similarities were the rebellions. In the movie, the poor rebel against the king and get killed. During the French Revolution, many rebellions broke out as well such as the attack of the Bastille, the Tennis Court Oath etc. Although, similarly in the movie and during the French Revolution, they were both trying to overthrow aristocracy and bring the bourgeoisie or others from the third estate to power. It never essentially worked in the movie but in the French Revolution the eventually managed to overthrow