9. You Have Never Felt More Sorry For Anyone Than You Do For Fantine
Whether you believe Fantine represents maternal sainthood or she portrays how women who were born into the proletariat were brutalised in the 19th Century, you're shocked at the lengths that she went to in order to provide for Cosette. She sold her hair, her teeth and her body in order to give Cosette everything she needed. She then dies in a room full of strangers who she believed that wronged her and she never got to see her daughter one last time. And you think you have problems...