Les Mis justifies the Revolution, but we should remember that the French Revolution, for all its horrible atrocities, was fully justified.
The American Revolution was made because the colonists thought, in all likelihood not entirely accurately, that the British government intended to reduce them to the level of powerlessness and subjugation the lower classes in France were already at.
So if revolution was justified to prevent such tyranny, how much more to overthrow it?
Sorry, I should have said “a” French Revolution was fully justified.
The one that actually happened, not so much.
mrcantilism, the stamp act and the intolerable acts were justification enough.
LM does not seem to justify the French Revolution. The story takes place after the revolution and shows the population is NOT better off afterwards.
The FR, I am sure you realize, was a very amoral event, unlike ours.
If you actually took a look at the film you would notice that it takes place after the French revolution.
I’m not the one to paint broad historical generalizations. Jean Valjean was a successful business man in the film. He was not a leader of a revolutionist party, and specifically avoided the french revolutionists because they were doomed.
Not to be pedantic, but Les Mis takes place about 40 years AFTER the French Revolution and has more to do with the Socialist uprisings of the mid 19th century than the anarchist French Revolution of the 1790’s.