I am not saying that my mom and dad are like hers and I am not saying that they have a illegitimate daughter, like Cosette but, what I mean to say is that, we sometimes connect? yeah, I know Éponine is a character and it's weird to say that you are close to a character, but I sometimes feel her pain and sufferings in life and that's why I love her. In fact if I have a daughter in the future, I'd name her Éponine. I researched why her names is "Éponine" and I found out that it came from the name "Gaul Epponina" which is the wife of "Julius Sabinus" who rebelled against the Roman Empire. Her name symbolizes great patriotism and virtue by protecting her husband for many years and choosing to die with him when he was finally captured. (well enough with the history, I just think it's really interesting where her name is adopted from)
So, what made me love Éponine Thenardier? We have the same situations, when she grew up. She fell for her friend that is not even aware of what feeling she has for him. + the fact that she died for him in the barricade was really, brave of her, plus she's a girl. She's a teenage girl. She has a life ahead of her, instead she ends it, by saving a friend and a boy that she loves.
She might have been a spoiled brat when she was a kid, but she became a person that everyone will love when she grew up. She became the kind of girl that will do good things for goodness sake. I've seen differences from the novel and the musical. But, Éponine looks more of a mess in the novel than in the musical. She has incomplete teeth in the novel and she drinks in the novel. And in the novel, she has siblings, including Gavroche, which is omitted in the musical.
But anyways, what I really love about her, her death, sees the long-hold feeling she has for Marius. Victor Hugo, said that Éponine is like a parallel figure of Fantine and he sees her love and death as a typically operatic, a drawn-out farewell scene, with an aria kind of speech thingy exploring her feelings for Marius. As in Romantic Opera he said "The dying Éponine recounts her long-held feeling of love for Marius, feelings she interprets as both moral and physical defects making her unworthy" when I read the book and watched the musical, I can see Éponine's pain, when he saw Marius, falling in love at 1st sight, with, at last she realized, the girl that she grew up with, her parent illegitimate daughter, Cosette.
Plus Éponine is by far the most interesting Character in Victor Hugo's novel. I swear. Well, Enjolras is quite interesting too but, Éponine's still is the most unpredictable character I've ever encountered.
When Éponine died, I cried. It's more emotional in the book, really emotional. It's goes like this: With her dying breath, Éponine confesses her love for him "and then, do you know, Monsieur Marius, I was a little in love with you" Éponine dies and Marius kisses her forehead as he had promised as a "gentle farewell to an unhappy soul" A PERSON WHO WILL NOT BE EMOTIONAL AT THIS PART HAS NO SOUL. NO SOUL.
Anyways, sending my love to Victor Hugo in heaven. Thank you for making this magnificent novel with such great characters.
Éponine in Rue Plumet.
(The Attack on Rue Plumet)
Lea Salonga as Éponine
(10th Anniversary of Les Miserables)
"I love him, but everyday I am learning, all my life I've only been pretending"
- On my Own
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