Gaspard

Jeremiah Moniz

Jeremiah plays Gaspard, the Comte's butler who is always ready to jump into action at his master's beck and call .

The following is Gaspard's story, written by Jeremiah:

Gaspard’s allegiance to the Comte was no sudden coming. His father, an alcoholic, abandoned his mother when he found out that she was pregnant. Because his mother was from the lower class, Gaspard was poor and malnourished. But at some point after his father left them, he turned his life around and served the Rousseau family. While in a skirmish, Gaspard’s father lost his life saving the Comte’s father. The Comte, wanting to return the favor to his family, took in the young lad as his personal servant. Gaspard worked his way up the line until he was head servant. 

Now, Gaspard’s family had always been loyal to the aristocracy. Their protection and the reward for his family’s work always led them to believe that the Rousseau’s were not corrupt fools, but people using their power rightly.  Gaspard also feared what had happened in the slums of Fayet during his early childhood. He knows even though he lives like them, his ticket out means he doesn’t want to be like them. Because Gaspard knows the pain of the poor, he does not say that what they are doing is wrong. Thus he is caught in a neutral position. His past makes him afraid of a country run by the people he escaped from. But he also knows that though the Comte was kind to him, not all commoners had the privileges he had. He wishes to keep his job so that he doesn’t have to live in the slums with the poor, but he knows there is some injustice. And sometimes the ones that don’t choose either side, which can be the right decision, are the ones that have the worst happen, lose the most. Gaspard knows this and he is struggling. This leads him to go into the events of the French Revolution without choosing much side, much emotion.