Javert

the musical, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, the readers are introduced to Inspector Javert. He is portrayed as the antagonist for setting forth the law on a seeming less never ending pursuit of Jean Valjean. However, he is not the guy everyone makes him out to be. Javert went after Jean Valjean because of his past with his parents, causing him to be strict with the law that has left lasting psychological effects on his adulthood. Javert has had a rough past, being born in a jail to a thief and prostitute.…

first, knowing that Javert was searching for him and he was a convict. Cosette pleaded her father to let her go outside the wall she was confined in, but Valjean declined. He was only convinced after Cosette informed him that she didn’t feel like she belonged at the church school, and the only thing she wanted was to be happy, which could only be attained by leaving the school. Another of the many times grace to Cosette was shown was when Valjean, presumably, allowed Cosette to meet up with…

Miserables. He was born into a very poor family in France. He tried hard to keep his family alive for many years. One time he tried to steal a piece of bread to feed his sister’s children and got caught in the action. For this he was sentenced to five years in prison. After four unsuccessful escape attempts, he was added twelve years in prison to his time. Later he was added two more years for fighting the guards during his second escape attempt. Altogether he would have to be in the prison for…

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…

It is, however, ironic that the very thing most girls find exciting and grand, Valjean finds disappointing and dreary. This signifies that as Cosette is maturing, Jean Valjean experiences his biggest letdown thus far; he realizes that he and Cosette may not be together forever. For him, without Cosette he has no purpose. Javert hunts Jean Valjean for the majority of the novel because he is unwilling to forgive the mistakes Jean Valjean makes. However, Valjean greets Javert with forgiveness and…

in Hugo’s book Les Misérables. Hugo utilizes the character javert to illustrate how narrow minded man can be, when one thinks with a narrow mind he is a force unable to be reckoned with, which leads to him affecting people in a negative way. When man becomes more open minded, they…

not killing him but going to a different room and found a basket silver which he took. After that he fled, then the next morning he got caught. The police then took hostage of him and went to the bishop’s house and confronted him with Valjean. Javert started to go after Valjean when he escaped from him. Javert is insane, partly because he nurses a great hatred for Valjean while observing him in prison, but the main reason is that Valjean disguised/assumed as Madeleine dismisses Javert in…

In addition, Javert is an example of a character whose human nature is good because he acts morally right. According to Les Miserables, it states, “To owe life to a malefactor, to accept that debt and to pay it, to be, in spite of himself, on a level with a fugitive from justice, and to pay him for one service with another service; to allow him to say...betray society in order to be true to his own conscience; that all these absurdities should be realized and that they should be accumulated upon…

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…

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…