#5.1.3

[lilullaby]

So, as much as Arthur's mother seems to be a great woman, close to her son, their exchange was affectionate and sweet. As soon as the father arrives, the atmosphere changes completely and becomes heavier. Arthur's father seems to have big ambitions for his son, but not the best way, I think (to push and apply pressure?).

I'll wait to see, but I think there will be some difficulties to overcome with him.

[centrifuge-politics]

Brick Club 5.1.2, 5.1.3

Time for housekeeping. Marius isn’t really in a state for logistics, so Enjolras is back in the driver’s seat (not that he really ever left). “Advice from Enjolras was an order,” that everyone pretty much roundly ignores anyways.

I’m not even going to attempt to sort out Combeferre’s allusions, this fictional man could beat me in a real life debate. It mystifies me that Hugo created a cast of characters that all understand the finer points of revolution better than he does. I still wonder at the timeline of Hugo writing this book. All his digressions seem to have been written entirely separate from the events of the story and then sprinkled in later. Sometimes they introduce a setting or concept, but they rarely connect thematically and sometimes contradict what happens in the story. Combeferre’s speech is weakened by everything Hugo says in 5.1.1 and that kinda sucks. “[Caesar] was a great man; so much the worse, or so much the better; the lesson is the greater…Caesar was stabbed by senators; Christ was slapped by lackeys. In the greater outrage, we feel the God.” Obviously, the character is not the author, but it’s difficult to separate the two when this chapter immediately follows a direct lecture to the audience. Combeferre brings up a really interesting and nuanced way to think about justice and violence, but it rings a little hollow with Hugo’s stance still at the forefront of my mind.

Amazing that no one spotted Enjolras trying to be sneaky considering he’s constantly lit by the glow of revolutionary fervor. You can even see it in the illustration. It’s amusing that he’s continually referred to as an eagle. He’d hate that. Houston, the eagle has landed. And he does not bring back good news. “You are abandoned.”

But it is not very French to flee. “There was a moment of inexpressible silence, when you might have heard the flight of death. This moment was short…Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people.” Yes, the barricades communicated, because they rose from the very same ideals, limbs of the same body. If, like Hugo in 1848, you insist on repressing those ideals, they intend to make sure you walk away with blood on your hands and regret in your soul, “the performance of duty is marred by an oppression of the heart.”

[centrifuge-politics]

Brick Club 5.1.4

I like seeing Enjolras doubt. I like that this show of unflinching devotion from his followers, “co-religionists,” is what makes him waver in his course of action. Whether or not it’s his place to send people away, seeing him grapple with the decision and pose the question to the barricaders is illuminating. He’s not blindly reckless in the pursuit of revolution, he doesn’t take the easy straightforward route of keeping every man in the fight. Nobody is a martyr first, a citizen second. “Vainglory is a squandering.”

Combeferre puts this to a point, though he is maybe a little harsher than I believe was strictly necessary. But rhetoric has its use on the barricade. “Suicides like those which will be accomplished here are sublime; but suicide is strict, and can have no extension; and as soon as it touches those next you, the name of suicide is murder.” A severe and simplified summary of the argument, but Combeferre is an aspiring doctor, he only ever wanted to save lives and that’s his aim here. There is a valid concern and a pertinent question hidden somewhere in here, but Combeferre mostly skims that in favor of dramatic rhetoric about how all your women will become prostitutes and your children will die of hunger. It’s good for what it is and I’m sure Combeferre is doing this deliberately, I don’t believe for a second he’s forgotten his own mother.

I am interested in at least setting up the question because of course I am. It starts with Hugo pointing out Combeferre is being slightly hypocritical and builds when the barricaders “began to inform against each other,” in an attempt to rank who might be most needed outside the barricade. Is a father more valuable than a brother? Are the young more valuable than the old? In the moment, the question looks something like: is it fair to choose who lives or dies based on their “worth” to society? On a broader level, we have to start asking why it falls on the people who supposedly have less to lose to become martyrs for progress. This isn’t helped when martyrdom is painted as sublime and living on is painted as selfish. The desperation to throw yourself on a pyre to fuel the cause shouldn’t be the default for resistance. And to be clear, the point of indignation is that conditions have been designed to such a state in which martyrdom is the only viable response. There should be nothing glorious about the position the barricaders are in, instead the state should be sick with shame. There’s an inkling of the deep horror of this situation as Marius looks over the men he might choose to die and they smile back at him, clamoring to be chosen. Understandably, this is not necessarily the rallying cry Combeferre is looking to make, but it is the root of the dilemma.

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Light and Shadow

The insurgents are full of hope. They envision the revolution will be in full swing by the end of the day. They hear an alarm bell which signals that Jeanne’s barricade is still holding strong.

Enjolras returns from a reconnaissance mission.

“The whole army of Paris is to strike. A third of the army is bearing down upon the barricades in which you now are. There is the National Guard in addition. I have picked out the shakos of the fifth of the line, and the standard-bearers of the sixth legion. In one hour you will be attacked. As for the populace, it was seething yesterday, to-day it is not stirring. There is nothing to expect; nothing to hope for. Neither from a faubourg nor from a regiment. You are abandoned.”

Tutti An anonymous voice calls out from the crowd. They will strengthen the barricade and offer themselves up for her. They will not abandon the people regardless of whether the people abandon them.

[akallabeth-joie]

Brickclub Les Mis 5.1.3

Light and Darkness: Vicky’s favorite things.

This short chapter is just packed with tension (and drama) (and pathos). Despite losing a solid quarter of their people yesterday, the rebels are somehow feeling optimistic about their chances...until Enjolras returns with a scouting report amounting to ‘U R screwed’. Tangent, but where did the ‘Enjolras is the naive optimist of the group who doesn’t foresee consequences’ trope come from? Because this is the opposite of that.

In another bit of stirring oratory, Hugo has a completely anonymous everyman* declare the group’s resolution to fight to death, despite the hopelessness of their situation. I like that the lines therefore become everyone’s and that this intensely courageous role belongs to the group, and to the obscure. A small tribute to everyone who fought without renown, who does their best even when there’s no hope of personally seeing the victory. 

It’s pretty Samwise on the plains of Gorgoroth, in its way. Except with more hardcore language and imagery (’defend the barricade with our corpses’).**

 No second person singular pronouns, but I note that Enjolras addresses the group as ‘you’ (’vous’), not including himself in it. The anonymous speaker does, using ‘we’ (’nous’).

*I fought valiantly to not make a Jean Valjean joke here. You’re welcome.

**Metal album based on Hugo’s works, anyone?

[ssdgames]

Create a new sprite for the background and for the green ball.

Put the background into a sorting layer as we learned last time.

[izacore]

the comment arthur made today at lucas and basile that “at least he’ll have a job” thanks to going to med school suddenly hits different........ how many times must he have heard it from his dad that that’s the best choice he can make..?