# Endnotes explained — Toilers of the Sea

> Chapter companion for Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo.

## What happens

This chapter contains endnotes referencing biblical passages and a French wordplay.

## Key lines

> He who sleeps must die.

Sleep is a metaphor for death.

_Biblical allusion to mortality._

> A play upon the French words, mari and âne.

A pun on the French words for husband and donkey.

_Linguistic wordplay._

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