[ SECRET POST #2232 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2232 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

How was it inaccurate? I've only ever seen the recent film so I'm curious.

[(Anonymous)]

In the book, she's slightly crazy and tells Marius to go to the barricade because she wants them to die together (though she still takes the bullet for him). The musical makes her more heroic and selfless (and MUCH more attractive).

[tenlittlebullets]

In the book, Eponine is sort of an illustration of all the ways that poverty, malnutrition, awful parents, etc. can make for an incredibly stunted and miserable adolescence. She latches onto Marius because he's pretty much the one and only decent person in her life, and is kind of a skeevy stalker about it. Also her motives are much more conflicted; Marius only ends up at the barricade because Eponine goes into a desperate "if I can't have him, no one will!" snit, withholds his letters, and banks on him being quasi-suicidal when he finds Cosette's house empty. (Later, when she's dying, she changes her mind and hands over the letter after revealing what she's done.)

Basically, in the book, the love triangle isn't central to Eponine's character; the class difference is so huge that there isn't even any question of Marius reciprocating. It's more about the parallel to Cosette: the differences in their fates have very little to do with their actions and everything to do with the fact that Cosette grew up in love and comfort and Eponine grew up in grinding poverty.

Edit: Possibly the best illustration of the difference: the passage in the book that inspired "On My Own" is Eponine monologuing disjointedly at Marius about walking the streets while homeless, imagining the walls of the buildings are the river and the stars are lamps and horses are blowing in her ears, and basically describing the way her head spins while she's hallucinating from hunger.

[arcadiaego]

Bloody hell I'm only at the randomly detailed description of climbing up Paris walls with Cosette at the moment. It's going to get worse isn't it. *cries*