‘Go sleep somewhere else,’ cried Enjolras. But Grantaire, keeping his tender, troubled eyes fixed on him answered, ‘Let me sleep here – until I die here.’
realised that the âincapable of dyingâ conversation takes place with Enjolras in the street and Grantaire in the second floor window of the corinth
…is also my probably most unpopular Star Wars opinion.
It isssss: Revenge of the Sith-era Hayden Christensen would have made an absolutely amazing Enjolras.
“Enjolras was a charming young man, who was capable of being terrible. He was angelically handsome. He was a savage Antinous. One would have said, to see the pensive thoughtfulness of his glance, that he had already, in some previous state of existence, traversed the revolutionary apocalypse. He possessed the tradition of it as though he had been a witness. He was acquainted with all the minute details of the great affair. A pontifical and warlike nature, a singular thing in a youth. He was an officiating priest and a man of war; from the immediate point of view, a soldier of the democracy; above the contemporary movement, the priest of the ideal. His eyes were deep, his lids a little red, his lower lip was thick and easily became disdainful, his brow was lofty. A great deal of brow in a face is like a great deal of horizon in a view. Like certain young men at the beginning of this century and the end of the last, who became illustrious at an early age, he was endowed with excessive youth, and was as rosy as a young girl, although subject to hours of pallor. Already a man, he still seemed a child. His two and twenty years appeared to be but seventeen; he was serious, it did not seem as though he were aware there was on earth a thing called woman. He had but one passionâthe right; but one thoughtâto overthrow the obstacle.”
I love when Victor hugo describes the character of Enjolras and likens him to many characters , here are some of them :
[ âThere was an insurgent whom I heard called Apollo.â ]
Vol.V – Book.I – Ch.XXIII
[ âHe was angelically handsome. He was a savage Antinous.â ]
Vol.III – Book.IV – Ch.I
[ âEnjolras, pale, with bare neck and dishevelled hair, and his womanâs face, had about him at that moment something of the antique Themis.â ]
Vol.IV – Book.XII – Ch.VIII
[ âThe bare throat of Evadne would have moved him no more than it would have moved Aristogeiton; he, like Harmodius, thought flowers good for nothing except to conceal the sword.â ]
Vol.III – Book.IV – Ch.I
[ âIn the Con- vention, he would have been Saint-Just.â ]
Vol.III – Book.IV – Ch.I
[ âHe had but one passionâ the right; but one thoughtâto overthrow the obstacle. On Mount Aventine, he would have been Gracchus.â ]
Vol.III – Book.IV – Ch.I
[ âEnjolras, as the reader knows, had something of the Spartan and of the Puritan in his composition. He would have perished at Thermopylae with Leonidas, and burned at Drogheda with Cromwell.â ]
