Revolution

Revolution in Connection to Les Miserables Revolution is connected to this novel in many, many ways. Throughout the story, the author references the happenings of that time. Marius Pontmercy's father George served Napoleon during his reign, and the Pontmercys are both strict repubulicans. Marius grandfather, however, is a devout Royalist and is still loyal to the king. Part of the novel takes place during the reign of Charles X, because early on in the novel it's mentioned that King Louis XVIII died four years before. At the end of the novel, at which the June Rebellion takes place, it becomes known that Charles X must have been overthrown sometime towards the middle, and it is now the reign of Louis-Philippe.Charles X's overthrow, or the July Revolution, begins shortly after the end of the novel. The entire barricade chapter is actually the real-life June Rebeliion, supposedly caused by the death of General Lamarque. Parisian students set up a blockade in an anti-monarchist riot. They were trying to reverse the July Monarchy and get Louis-Philippe off the throne. The revolution was unsuccessful.

The novel also has to do with rebelling against society's standards. Society basically cast Jean Valjean off as a criminal not worth attention or care, but he showed that you can't judge a book by it's cover. People can change faster than society. Values and morals are just whatever is socially acceptable at the time. Society and the brain of an innocent are in constant warfare, whilst between it and an ignorant, there is peace.

Therefore there were many ways, both corporeal and metaphysical, that //Les Miserables// is connected to revolution. 15/15