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The Leader: Enjolras' main function in the story is to lead, in every sense of the word. He is a strategic leader, laying the plans of the revolution ("Well, Courfeyrac, do you have all the guns? Feuilly, Combeferre, our time is running short!" – Les Miserables, Schonberg and Boublil). But he is also a rallying leader, able to convince others through his own conviction. He is described as a "savage Antinous" – people follow him because they admire, respect and are even slightly afraid of him, and not necessarily because they like him. Hugo writes that he gives more "light", whereas his fellow student revolutionary, Courfeyrac, gives more "wa