Les Misérables, Book 10: June 5, 1832, Chapter 1 summary
Book 10: June 5, 1832, Chapter 1 of 365 · 5 min to read the chapter
In Chapter 1, the narrator describes revolt as a destructive force that gathers people with widely different grievances, then reviews political arguments about its benefits and costs. Rejecting blanket judgments based on damage or expense, the narrator insists that each popular movement requires examination of its particular cause.
What happens
- The narrator describes revolt as a sudden force that gathers suffering, ambition, resentment, courage, and poverty.
- Revolt destroys indiscriminately while giving ordinary people extraordinary power.
- One political theory treats limited revolt as useful exercise for governments that survive it.
- The golden mean school blames riots for economic damage, political division, bloodshed, and compromised progress.
- The narrator rejects judgments based only on consequences and calls for examining each movement's cause.
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What does the narrator insist on examining when judging an uprising?
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