So things are just going from bad to worse for poor Fantine.
She got a job at Jean Valjeans factory to pay for Cosettes upkeep, but then some snobby bitch went and told everyone that she had a child out of wedlock and she got fired, not by Valjean though he's fucking clueless at this point. Since she cant keep up with the payments the Thenadiers keep demanding she sells her furniture, then her hair, then her teeth (Ouch!!), then eventually she has nothing else left so she she becomes a prostitute. Then some guy attacks her in the street and Javert arrests her, yeah he arrests her! because he's an asshole and he hates women! Honestly i think this Javert guy just needs to get laid, he's far too uptight for his own good.
So Javert wants to send Fantine to prison but then Jean Valjean appears like the Christ like being that he is and rescues her from prison! Good job Valjean, it's too bad you couldn't have stepped in a bit sooner before things got so bad for Fantine.
I've said before that i feel so bad for Fantine, and i really do, i can empathise with her a lot. We've all had those moments haven't we when everything seems to go wrong for us? The world can be a horrible and cruel place sometimes.
Actually Fantine reminds me of someone else i have a lot of sympathy for, the serial killer Aileen Wuornos. Both women seem to be just constantly treated like crap by everyone, both forced to give up their child, both forced to give up their bodies for money, and it's not like neither of them didn't try to live a good life, Fantine tried to earn money in an honest way and so did Aileen, but it was society that cast them both aside when they didn't like what they saw.
And yes i know that it's a weird comparison, but I've read a lot about serial killers and there's a lot i see in Fantine that i see in Aileen. Yeah obviously Fantine didn't become a murderer, but we all have our breaking point and who knows what could have happened to her if she hadn't been saved.
I wonder if Victor Hugo would ever have thought that one of his characters would be compared to a serial killer?
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