Marius And Cosette's Love

Marius is childlike in his pursuit for Cosette’s love because he does not know her and does not think of who will be affected by their relationship.
In the film Les Miserables, there’s a scene where Marius and Cosette sing a song called “Heart Full of Love.” In this songs Marius sings “A heart full of love / A heart full of song / I'm doing / everything all wrong / Oh God, for shame / I do not even know your name / Dear Madamoiselle / Won't you say? / Will you tell?” ("Les Miserables Cast Lyrics – Heart Full of Love") Marius doesn’t even have the slightest idea who Cosette is. Halfway through a song about their love for each other he acknowledges the fact that he doesn’t know her name. In another song he sings, “I did not live until today. …show more content…
He totally considers giving up his place in the rebellion because he was so lost without Cosette. Something something something Gavroche. “It is time for us all / To decide who we are / Do we fight for the right / To a night at the opera now? Have you asked of yourselves / What's the price you might pay? / Is this simply a game / For a rich young boy to play? / The colours of the world / Are changing day by day.” He was the only one to tell Marius to stop thinking about himself. There was a bigger cause they were fighting for. From the novel, we know that Marius keeps his word and stands up for what he believes in. For example, Marius refused to take his grandpa’s money because he didn’t have the same beliefs and values as his grandpa. Marius is a very intelligent and rooted person in the novel, but in the film we see a completely different Marius. Marius gives up on the rebellion when he finds love. Without Cosette he has no idea what to do with his life. He is not quite as committed as his other student friends are to their cause because of Cosette and the fact that he is a romantic. The fact that he might not ever see Cosette again shouldn’t be the only thinig persuading him to fight for what he believes is right. He responds to his friends saying, “Had you seen her today / You might know how it feels / To be struck to the bone / In a moment of breathless delight! / Had you been there today / …show more content…
The least he could do was just not get her involved in the first place. “She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had gone. Eponine lay motionless; but just when Marius supposed her for ever asleep, she slowly opened her eyes in which the gloomy deepness of death appeared, and said to him with an accent the sweetness on which already seemed to come from another world: ‘And then, do you know, Monsieur Marius, I believe I was a little in love with you.’” (Hugo page number) Eponine was willing to take a bullet for him, but Marius didn’t give her the time of day and only saw her as a friend. She was even the one to lead Marius to where Cosette was staying with Jean Valjean. Eponine also gave him the note from Cosette in the movie. If he had any respect for Eponine he would have left her out of it, but he was too blinded by love to see that he was hurting