Lopez -Murcia, Tania Alexandra. “ABC café/Black and red- Les
Miserables 25th Anniversary LYRICS”. Youtube.Web. 25 Jun. 2012.
The song “Red and Black” is a song from the musical production
Les Miserables. The musical is based
on the lives of the French people before and at the beginning of the French Revolution.
In this particular scene, Marius joins his fellow French rebels at a meeting
but arrives late. He shows up awe-struck by encountering Cozette, the
goddaughter of Jean Valjean, for the first time. While the French rebels only
have war and revolution on their minds Marius can only think of Cozette.
Marius has fallen in love at first sight with the beautiful
Cozette. It unfortunately is a very inopportune time for this to occur since
the French are on the brink of revolution. Yet this concerns Marius very little
at the moment. The colors red and black depict the intensity of how Marius and
the rebels feel. The French rebels described red as “the blood of angry men”
and black as “dark of ages past”. In contrast red represents Marius intense
desire for Cozette and black represents “his world if she’snot there”. Marius’
heart burns with passionate love for Cozette at the climatic period in France
that soon leads into the most horrific war the country has ever experienced.
