Fantine knows she'll never get a job to support Cosette if people know she's an unwed mother, so she leaves Cosette with a family of strangers while she travels in search of work.
At first, Fantine finds a decent job in a factory owned by Jean Valjean. But she gets fired when her manager finds out she's an unwed mother. Fantine struggles to make ends meet by sewing for fourteen hours a day. But it's no use. The character of Fantine is one of the most tragic figures in Les Miserables. She is completely a victim of circumstance, and as such, her tragic fate befalls her through no fault of her own. She was an abandoned child, and while it tells little of her childhood, when we meet her she is working in a factory.
However, the fact that they earn their keep does not make them sympathetic. In this respect, they are simply a poorer version of the aristocrats. SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. Themes Motifs Symbols. Important Quotes Explained. Page 1 Page 2. Subsequently, she is unable to take care of her daughter, Euphraise nicknamed Cosette. The letter-writer reveals while drunk to whom Fantine writes, and a suspicious widow called Madame Virturnien goes to confirm the rumors.
This information finds its way to the supervisor of the women's workshop, who then dismisses Fantine with minimal input from Mayor Madeleine, as having children yet being unmarried was highly scandalous at the time. Fantine is given fifty francs as compensation and sent on her way. Fantine finds a new job sewing shirts for soldiers, but it does not pay as much as the factory did.
In the beginning of this period of time, she has a friend in Marguerite , but soon after selling her hair she is forced to move into the attic of her building, and Marguerite is never mentioned again. Over time, she becomes fatally ill with tuberculosis. Valjean learns of her situation when Inspector Javert arrests her for attacking a man called Bamatabois who called her insulting names and threw snow down her front and sends her to a hospital.
She spends several weeks in the hospital, delirious and thinking of her daughter.
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