Annie Pitts
Ms. Molyneaux
English D
May 20, 2015
Eponine and Marius have had a complicated relationship since they have known each other. Marius thinks of Eponine as just a close companion, but Eponine has always wanted more with this hero that she knew deeper than anyone else. She admires his ambition for the French Revolution, even though his father and him are well off and have no reason to be concerned with the peasant revolution. Eponine would do anything for Marius, even if that includes helping him fall in love with another girl, Cosette. It hurts Eponine deeply to see Marius happy with someone else, but at least he is happy. "To love or have loved is enough," is what Eponine lives by, especially as she is dying in Marius' arm at the barricade. She loves him, which meant she wishes him the best, and as she is seeing her life pass her, she is happy to have loved even if it isn't mutual. "No other pearl" would be so satisfying to her as loving Marius is. "In the dark folds of life," there is nothing more important than love when it comes down to it and Eponine realizes this. Even though he isn't her's, her love is brave enough and deep enough for Marius to accept his happiness with another woman.
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