Javert

the system of government, as the people in power treat their citizens unjustly. Through the duration of the novel, a character named Javert has symbolized these people in power. At one point Valjean was put in jail, and Javert became his jailor. The whole plot of the novel is mainly based around the chase between the ethically right Valjean and legally right Javert. In the final book, however, Valjean spares Javert’s life, causing him to rethink his purpose. He becomes cognisant that he,…

and how the singing ruined the movie and lost many eyes. There were parts in the movie that probably shouldn’t have been sung and they were which ruined the whole thing. The beginning of the movie should not have been sung because that was deep when Javert and Jean were signing when Jean was going to be set free of jail. Another one was when Marius and his friends were signing about fighting the Revolution and what they were planning on doing, that should have been discussed instead of sung.…

person has just begun. Between being constantly pursued by Javert, an unsympathetic officer who seeks only justice, and trying to spare himself…

society and he really wants people to know that the system is corrupt and broken. Just because of his background he cannot be seen in public where someone may recognize him as a convict like Javert did. People like Javert misjudge Jean and think of him as a criminal and violent guy. However, Jean shows to Javert that…

He also sacrificed losing Cosette for good when he told the truth to Marius about how he was an ex convict. This lead to Marius into thinking that Jean Valjean robbed the money he gave to them and that he was the one that killed Javert. Thénardier however, told Marius that Jean Valjean was actually not these things. This explains that Jean Valjean sacrificed a lot due to his love for Cosette because when he told Marius that he was an ex convict Marius did not accept him for that…

is used to draw the reader’s attention to the specific line I was wrong. Likewise, Les Misérables’ Javert spends his whole life believing that a criminal is always a bad person and explains to Jean that men like [him] never change. Javert is captured and Jean has a chance to kill him but instead of killing him and being able to live a life free of running away from Javert, he sets him free. Javert begins to doubt the life he has lived, always believing that these convicts are wrong and now he…

The short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, the poem “Batter My Heart three-person 'd God” by John Donne, and the drama “Les Miserable” by Victor Hugo are all masterpieces created in different eras that have a couple things in common. All three pieces of work are primarily made up of a great deal of irony. By irony, each story is unique but also calls attention to the authors’ points. The Webster Dictionary defines irony as “a situation that is strange or funny because…

escape. From looking at these bare facts like the prison guard, Javert, it seems the Jean Valjean was a criminal and he did break the law. However, what Jean Valjean stole was a loaf of bread to feed his sister’s starving son. So, while he was legally in the wrong, he morally did the right thing. Les Miserables has many conundrums like this for Valjean. He eventually breaks his parole to start a new, better life. This causes Javert to start a many year search for him. Many years later Valjean is…

In the beginning of Les Miserables by Victor Hugo we see a man once a slave in the galleys. A man broken and beaten, Jean Valjean a sliver of the man he was before. He is forced to beg even for a place to lay his head and find a bite to eat. Trudging house to house, looking for shelter here and there. Until, upon a cold, dark night there forms a light in the doorway, the light of the Bishop. The man who invites Jean Valjean into his church, feeds him and gives him a place to stay and, most…

hearing. From then on, he is on the run. His past shows up in his new life unexpectedly. Throughout the rest of the novel, Valjean is trying to escape the man, Javert,…