Les Misérables

Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables has accomplished what many novels seek to accomplish but fail to do it; it has become a timeless classic. Les Miserables has the same impactful message that applies still to this day. Today’s masses have seen an undiluted version of Les Miserables despite the play adaptations, over a hundred translations and a major movie adaptation. This novel presents the daily struggles of the lower class of french society during the Napoleonic Age through a different lens.…

to turn himself in or to let another man serve his sentence. When adapting a novel into other mediums such as a movie and a musical, there are details about internal conflict that are lost and potentially added. This is the case when adapting Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, the song “Who Am…

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…

(1)In Les Miserables, Victor Hugo demonstrates that compassion is more effective than punishment. (2) Despite Inspector Javert’s serve obsession with finding Jean Valjean, the circumstances under which this is achieved forces Javert to examine his own perception of justice. (3) Jean Valjean’s numerous selfless actions conflict with Javert’s label of him as a dangerous convict. (4) Javert’s fixation on punishment does not allow any room for compassion, and to his mind, the only way he can show…

La Douleur Exquise [French] – The heart-wrenching pain of wanting someone you can’t have. This is one of the worst feelings possible, and no one wants to experience it. In the book, Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, Eponine has gone through several hardships in life that have made her a selfish girl, but one concept has made her change: love. This emotion transformed her heart and guided her to make better choices. Eponine has proved not to be like the Thenardier family by becoming a better…

"Enjolras, you're coming to bed. Let's go." Enjolras was exhausted beyond belief, and it was apparent with the bags under his eyes and his groggy voice. Pasha had taken notice, and she was not playing around when she expressed her demand. Surprisingly, however, Enjolras did not argue nor hesitate, and he followed Pasha without a word of complaint. She turned off the desk light and led him to his room, separate from hers. "Thank you, Pasha." Enjolras whispered groggily, smiling weakly as he laid…

Jean Vanier is the founder of L’Arche, which is an international federation, in which communities create homes along with day programs for people who have disability. Jean Vanier displays the meaning of living a virtuous life because he shows moral excellence through his work with L’Arche, specifically he pursued the good, and he helped the disable people out of the goodness of his heart. Besides, he took the first 2 handicapped (and more) as there family, he feed them, he clothed them along…

set on destruction. This is used to describe many antagonists; however, there is just one problem, no one can be a single-minded villain. They are just people and many may not be all that bad. From the opening pages of the book and 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.…

romantics society, we are immersed in many forms of poetry and dramatics that truly depict a scene of non-rewarded love. In Shakespeare's Taming of The Shrew, Petruchio and Katherine are at a stand off for love that could not be returned. As well as, Les Miserables, Eponine is madly in love with Marius but this could not be returned due to his undying affection for Cosette. In dramatic works, love and sex often carry little ties to one another creating an overtone of never rewarded infatuation.…

After relentless hunting for Jean Veljean over the course of many years, Javert is unable to capture the convict while given multiple opportunities. When adversity hits Javert who is a man of the law in the book Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, the individual uses suicide as his solution to escape his inability to understand compassion. While everyone in the community has dealt with Javert’s unwavering commitment to the law, the people judge him, as they are unaware of his past which influences…