Bedtime Stories Commentary #13: "The Importance of Being ERNEST GOES TO CAMP"
Added 2018-10-11 22:11:40 +0000 UTCHave questions about this story? Or any other story? Ask those questions to me and prepare to have them answered!
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I suspect that I'm easily ignorant enough to enjoy the story as written. I don't even know if I'm an orleanist or not!
Adam Drent
2018-10-16 22:54:51 +0000 UTCLes miserables is a great story and a great musical there is no doubt why it has stood the test of time and why so many speak so highly of it, but the historical context is important. Victor Hugo portrays the constitutional July monarchy as a tyrannical child murdering police state when in reality it was a carful balancing act between the absolutism of the ancien regime and the utter chaos of the revolution. Its really hard to not read it as a total political hit job if you are an orleanist. I tend to watch it as a comedy and not as the tragedy its meant to be, which i’ll admit is awkward when you are the only one in the theatre cheering when that orphan gets shot, but listen if Victor Hugo wants to make a child a martyr for political gain that’s his hang up not mine.
Andrew Burge
2018-10-16 04:32:04 +0000 UTC
