Les Miserables fans PLEASE answer!!!!!?

Question

Okay i'm singing I dreamed a dream and i'vve never seen Les Miserables so i don't know who i'm singing about or why i'm singing. PLEASE tell me as much as you can can! Thanks!=D

Answer 1

You're Fantine, and you're singing about your lover who abandoned you, leaving you with a child to support. You loved him, but he abandoned you, and you're saying you wish he'd come back but there are dreams that can never be.

Answer 2

love this play by the way....but yeah pretty much everything that she dreamed for herself was not at all how her life current is (aka when she singing the song) -- i feel like the lyrics really do tell it all.............she had hope and expectations like any girl.....but that all came up short......her reason for singing kinda like one of those day you mop about life and everything thats going wrong....thats what she doing!!!

have fun!!

Answer 3

Character: Fantine - mother of a young girl, Cosette (Lark)

Situation: Recalling all of your dreams that have failed to come true and recapping on the events of your life.

PS - the song sounds better when sung by a man.

Answer 4

This song is sung by the character of Fantine.  She has just been fired from her job at a factory when another (catty) worker finds out that Fantine has a daughter out of wedlock.  The daughter (Cosette) lives with an inkeeper and his wife.  Fantine sends them money to care for Cosette and she has been told that Cosette is ill, so they need extra money for medicine.  Fantine is now at the lowest point in her life (so far).  She has no way to care for her daughter.

At this point, (the song) she tells of a simpler time when she was a young innocent girl.  She could not concieve of anyone being unkind, of men lying to her, etc. One of the most beautiful lyrics: "when dreams were made and used and wasted". Then she met a man that she devoted herself to ("he slept a summer by my side").  When she got pregnant, he left ("but he was gone when autumn came").  It is never indicated that this was her husband, so I always assumed that he was not.  Otherwise it would not be such a big deal that she had a child if her husband simply left her.  Since he was not her husband, it was an issue of morality that got her fired from the factory (along with jealousy on the part of some of the workers).

At the end of the song, she resigns to herself that real life killed her innocent dreams ("..love would never die").  She still has hope her lover will come back, but inside she knows he never will.  She has not yet turned to prostitution, but does so right after the song is finished.   She also sells her hair and her jewelry, all to pay for Cosette's care.  In time she becomes ill and dies (her last thoughts being of Cosette).  A man takes her in from the street in to nurse her.  It is her old boss from the factory (Jean Valjean).  He learns the true story and is very remorseful that he allowed her to be fired and to become what she became.  He did not fire her directly, but did ignore her pleas at the time.  He agrees to her dying wish for him to care for Cosette and to raise her.  At the end of the show, Fantine comes back (as a ghost) to thank Valjean and to usher him to heaven.

Answer 5

I have read the book, and a few years ago the movie was made, and it is similar to the book. It is also a french version, but personally I prefer the American movie. The name of the movie is the same. Hope this help

Answer 6

The character you are singing as in this part is at the lowest point in her life. She used to have a happy life with a child and husband. Her husband left her, her child is "sick" liveing with a crooked inn-keeper. She has been working as a prostitute and has sold her hair to a wig maker. This song is basically a lament that she thought her life would be good and it has some how all gone wrong.

I also agree with Mark's ps. does sound better when sung by a male