I, uh, I may have skimmed quite a lot of the Waterloo chapters in Les Mis. So I wouldn't know.
The insurrection later on is eventually a bloodbath, but there are also stirring scenes of heroic sacrifice and noble death, and I think a lot of readers (particularly younger readers) feel that the Amis are tragic, romantic, glorious martyrs. So from a certain point of view it makes war (or at least violent uprising?) attractive, even though it's also terrible.
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Date: 2016-05-06 12:32 am (UTC)The insurrection later on is eventually a bloodbath, but there are also stirring scenes of heroic sacrifice and noble death, and I think a lot of readers (particularly younger readers) feel that the Amis are tragic, romantic, glorious martyrs. So from a certain point of view it makes war (or at least violent uprising?) attractive, even though it's also terrible.