Reflection Of Les Miserables

Having read Lolita before this one, I was in a divided mind whether to bring the book home. Not that Lolita was “bad”, no chance of that, but it exerted an impression which I would love to liken to a massive dose of LSD: lovely exasperating, trippy to the max, to a certain extent very similar to a case of migraine. Unfortunately, the black butterfly on its cover knew my dilemma and blinked with me. I brought the book, and soon envisioned myself getting stuck in the same vein of chaos of words, metaphors, excessively equivocal language and bizzare monologues once again. However, to my utmost bewilderment, Laughter turned out not very elusive as I had expected. I made hardly any endeavor to finish it all in one light read, and even had time for reflective pauses during and after reading. Wow, is it me or the tale monster really that easy to tame this time?

Javert’s narrow mindedness is put to the test when Jean Valjean spares his life is and as a result changes Javert’s life that benefits society. Javert continuing on the only path he had known becomes a spy for the French National Guard during the June rebellion, however not a very good one. He gets captured by the leaders of the rebellion for being a spy and would have been shot dead instantly if it wasn't for more imminent matters that the ABC’s had to take care of. They leave him tied up waiting

Javert, the inspector who chased Valjean, had one major turning point in Victor Hugo’s novel. Throughout the novel Javert hunted Valjean with a sense of justice and law. Javert believed in enforcing society’s law to such an extent it made him not think whether the laws were just. However, throughout the novel it became evident that Javert not only wanted to follow the law, but also started to enjoy hounding Valjean. “Then, with a demonic and sensual pleasure, he settled down to enjoy himself. He played his man knowing that he had him, deliberately postponing the climax, granting him a last illusion of freedom, relishing the situation like a spider with a fly buzzing in its web or a cat letting a mouse run between its paws – the ecstasy of watching

My artifact for this paper is the book Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. This artifact is important because within the book there are stories of numerous characters that tell people how they should love their lives. Les Misérables and the key take away messages Hugo vividly describes through his character’s struggles and triumphs are all equipment for living. Specifically, Les Misérables teaches its readers about the need for equality within a society by exposing what it is like to live in an unjust society (the poor are the target of abuse and manipulation). Hugo attempts to teach the audience of the faults of having a society with an extreme hierarchy in an attempt to create better societies (hierarchy and inequalities lead to the poor being suppressed, famine, unhappy lives,

Javert relentlessly pursues Jean Valjean throughout the novel who wishes to make him pay for past errors. When Jean Valjean has the chance to get revenge on Javert by killing him, he doesn’t. Jean Valjean redeems Javert because God redeemed him.

There were many candidates for my essays subject. I considered Jean Valjean, for we both put others ahead of ourselves. Marius was another candidate. He and I both have unpopular political views and have a tendency to rebel. However, I think the best choice for the essay is Javert. He was the very bottom of my list, but crawled his way to the top. As I read more about his character, it became more and more apparent that he was who I needed to write about. Of all the characters, I am most like Javert.

In Les Misérables a storyline of tragedy introduces a character named Valjean who has had a rough life. From being into prison to living in the streets, he meets a bishop who changed his life. Valjean’s future seems to go smoothly until another character comes into play his parole officer Javert. Javert is now put into a situation that could either ruin the good in him or the people around him. When adapting a novel into other mediums, such as a movie or 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 I?” from the musical, and the 1998 film adaptation.

Victor Hugo very obviously illustrates Jean Valjean’s internal turmoil in the opening of the novel. He is constantly battling with himself. For instance, take when Javert apologizes to Monsieur Madeleine [Jean Valjean] for assuming that he was a “former convict” (Hugo 80 emphasis added), and then further goes on to explain to Monsieur that “the real Jean Valjean has been found…the rogue was caged” (81). Jean Valjean is shocked and at that moment, he decides not to reveal himself to Javert and goes home with a question in his mind. Should he be truthful and spare this innocent man’s life or should he continue to act unaware and continue to lie about who he is and live with the fact that an innocent man was wrongfully accused? “His sense of justice cannot bear to see an innocent man go to jail in his stead” (Harper 1) but if he were to do right, he would be revealing himself, losing all the work he had put in to redeem himself and would most definitely end up back in the galleys. Similar to Valjean, we are always going back and forth between our perceptions of what is right or wrong, what is good or evil, and what is just or unjust. In the novel, after speaking to Javert, he locks himself in his home “bolts his door… [attempting to barricade] himself against all possibilities of being left alone with “his conscience” (Hugo 87). One’s conscience drives one’s thoughts and decisions. At

The Bible gives us the first love poem in creation in Adam’s response when he first sees Eve. In Genesis 2:23, Adam says, “This is now bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man (KJV).” Milton in Paradise Lost goes into a deeper description of Adam’s first glimpse of Eve, saying that he saw her creation in a dream while he was asleep, then woke, and was “left […] dark,” and he thought he would “find her, or forever […] deplore / Her loss (VIII.478-479).” Once he sees her, and she is brought to him, Milton expands further on the Biblical account. Eve, however, has a different version of their first meeting. According to Milton in Book IV, when Eve is first given sentience, she wanders a bit and finds a pond that shows her reflection. She is rapt by her own beauty, and seems that she could easily slip into a Narcissus-type episode, if left to stare. But, God tells her it is her reflection, that it is not permanent, but that there is someone corporeal waiting for her. She follows the voice and sees Adam, whom she finds “fair indeed and tall, / […] yet methought less fair, / Less winning soft, less amiably mild, / Than that smooth watery image (477-480).” She then turns away from him. Milton gives his readers two obviously different characters, the question becomes whether these two proto-married people even seem to love each other, and why Biblical submission is established as it is in Genesis and Milton.

Throughout the entire musical, Javert has never wavered from the law. He thinks the law is just and right and there is no mercy for those who break the law. Javert only sees right and wrong, he has no sympathy for convicts and does what he must to remain just. Javert believes that he is doing the will of God by justifying his actions to what he believes is right. Javert dedicates himself to find Valjean and imprison him yet again. He is conflicted because Jean Valjean let him go free when he had the chance to kill him and Javert thinks that there is no room on this world for the both it is either Valjean or Javert.

Jean Valjean was in prison for nineteen years because he stole some bread. He was released and went to the city. And when he entered the restaurant and ask for some food and a place to rest and the restaurant owner refused to expel him. after he arrived at the church and the bishop entered him into the church, and gave him some food and a place to sleep. Before leaving the church he stole some things and fled. And then arrested by the police and they went to the bishop. the bishop told them that this stuff is not stolen and it is a gift to Valjean. After this Valjean was ashamed of himself and the work he has done and how the bishop was nice to

There is no doubt that Les Misérables is the best musical that mankind has ever known. In 1980, the musical production took the world by storm with its enthralling complexities and never-ending relatability. At its 25th Anniversary Concert in 2010, the performers relit the immortal flame and a new generation became captivated by the multi-culturally supple enactment. Dissimilarly, the most recent film adaption, released in 2012, produced quite the controversy among both Les Misérables experts and amateurs. There is no doubt that Norm Lewis' portrayal of Javert in the 25th Anniversary of Les Misérables phenomenally executed the simplicities of his primary characteristics. However, did Russell Crowe's perspective of the role

This one event demonstrates the relationship of Valjean and Javert throughout the movie. Valjean stealing and not obeying the law puts a bad impression on Javert because he is the one obeying what the law says. Javert is unsatisfied with Valjean being able to walk away as a

The first theme in the novel is forgiveness. In the beginning of the book Jean Valjean stayed with the bishop who he ends up stealing his silver. Jean ends up getting caught by the cops for stealing the silver but when he is caught and brought back to the bishop he tells the cops that he gave Valjean the silver. The bishop tells John that he had bought his soul and gave it to God, so from that day on he must be good. Another example of forgiveness is at the end of the book. Javert finally has Valjean captured but instead of killing him he sets him free. By letting Valjean go Javert decides he must commit suicide due to him breaking the law that he loved so dearly. There are a few examples of forgiveness found in the book written by Victor Hugo.

The feature of the movie “Joy” was Joy Mangano who once said, “Find a way and make it happen: I’ve always been the type of person who couldn't rest until I found a way to make something happen. If I couldn’t go around the rock, I’d find a way to go over it or under it or through it.” Joy was a very creative person. She started inventing things at a very young age, thus helping her through life. The theme in the film “Joy”, the director uses the archetypal setting “the river”, which reveals that we as humans have a need that we can find in ourselves to push through struggles so we can accomplish our dreams, because we desire more in life.