Fantine

Thus she realizes the idea that poverty is not a hindrance to have a better future. Cosette has her own personality, which emerges as she enters adolescence and begins to hunger for a less sheltered life. In this period of their lives, Valjean’s role temporarily changes from Cosette’s savior to her jailer. The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit. Fantine She believes that consumption of material things, selfishness, greed all play a part in our society. Poverty is a sickness that yields in accordance to norms and needs of society. She is a poor working-class girl form the town of Montreuil-sur-mer, an orphan who has almost no education and can neither read nor write. She values the essence of trust. For she betrayed by Tholomyès gets her pregnant and then disappears; the Thénardiers take Cosette and use the child to extort more money; and Fantine’s coworkers have her fired for indecency. This was resulting for her beliefs that trust is it become more and more difficult to remain vulnerable, trusting, and open to life in this era of uncertainty, global upheaval, divorce, and disrupted…

became a famous, powerful and charitable man. In one of Jean Valjean’s factories worked a woman named Fantine. She was dismissed from her job because the other workers thought that she would be trouble. Jean Valjean becomes wrapped up in the incidents that ruined her life, that made Fantine fall into poverty. Jean Valjean realised the damage he had made. He mad sure Fantine was taken from the custody of Javert and quickly sent her to the hospital, where he promised Fantine that he will bring…

Jean Valjean started off in prison because he stole a loaf of bread. After serving 19 years of prison , Jean Valjean was put on papers for the rest of his life. His papers prohibited him from getting a job. After meeting a Bishop Myriel, Jean was saved. Although he stole from the Bishop, he still forgave him. Jean has did a lot of things but for good reasons. He stole the loaf of bread because his family was starving. Jean rescues Cosette from the Thenardiers after Fantine dies, but…

law. In Javert’s eyes any one who broke the law is deemed abominable to society even if it was a minor crime. Javert’s rigid and unforgiving ethics is portrayed through his interactions with Fantine. In an attempt to defend herself, Fantine attacked Monsieur Bamatabois, after he assaulted her with a snowball. After breaking through the crowd Javert saw what seemed to be a prostitute attacking an innocent man with no specific reason. After seeing what seemed to him to be a prostitute…

The struggle between good and evil is a powerful theme in the book. The most prominent example of this is Valjean's battle to transform from an immoral, miserable convict to a truly good man. The candlesticks are a very powerful symbol of love, that drives Valjean through his transformation. Misery is represented at the very beginning of the book, with the imagery of the protagonist and his interactions and dialogue with other characters. He has just gotten out of prison and is looking for…

Jean Valjean, nearly fifty, experiences more in his lifetime than the average man. By Victor Hugo affirming Valjean's age to only around fifty suggests to the reader that Valjean's life-changing experiences are not yet complete. Because he is younger than the reader expects, Valjean's physique resides along with his age helping him in various scenarios. Over the course of a year, Valjean's body ages to his actual age of eighty years; his strength vamooses him as he prepares for his demise.…

In the novel Les Miserables, written by Victor Hugo, Jean Valjean, a convict, in Paris 1815, is just released from nineteen years in prison. This is caused from him stealing bread to help his family, which gives Valjean 5 years of prison, and trying to escape numerous times which gives him another 14 years. Throughout the novel, Valjean is trying to escape the struggle of his past and become the man he wants to be which reveals the underlying message of Valjean’s redemption. The Bishop helps…

where there is no hope for survival; only darkness awaits. The flower tries to reach the sun, but the wall keeps on growing and allows no light to shine through. Fantine is the flower, and society is the wall and the water. In the novel Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, society is more to blame than Fantine for her fall. For instance, Fantine suffers because society does not accept her, since she is unmarried with a daughter. Also, society is unsympathetic causing her to fall. However, Fantine…

Fantine was assaulted and retaliated in self defense. Javert “had seen a crime committed,” but not the true crime of the initial assault. All he saw was “there in the street, society represented by a property holder and an elector, insulted and attacked by a creature who was an outlaw and an outcast.” He’d seen that “a prostitute had assaulted a citizen,” (Hugo 71) but in his mind she was simply a prostitute, not a citizen like the rich man who’d attacked her. In Javert’s personal sense of…

Positivity and Adversity in the Face of Poverty Can you imagine what it would it be like to experience true poverty, and how it would shape your worldview? In Les Misérables, Victor Hugo addresses such a topic using multiple characters’ experiences of living on the margins of society. Each characters’ outlook on life and attitude towards poverty has a dramatic effect on their experiences: Fantine views poverty with deep resentment, Jean Valjean sees his impoverished experience as something he…