Javert

has committed, Javert realizes that his ideals on duty and that all criminals are unjust may not be as absolute as he once believed. After capturing JVJ for the first time, he makes it his life goal to put an end to JVJ. He follows him around Europe and even becomes a spy to see JVJ. When he get’s caught for being a spy by the revolutionaries in the war, he is sentenced to death and JVJ is the one to kill him. However, JVJ only pretends to kill him, and he lets Javert free. Javert knows that getting

The Silent Killer Once a bad person, always a person? Everyone knows someone that has had a hard past, but that does not necessarily mean that they are a bad person to the core. However, the character of Javert in the book Les Miserables by Victor Hugo felt that once a criminal always a criminal. He saw the law as black and white with no room for compromise. Part of this philosophy was because of his own background and life story. Key parts in the book, movie, and other sources of research help

What Javert cares about is for justice to be served and because of that he pursues on to arrest Jean Valjean. But of course as we all know, perspectives can change in a moment. A moment that can destroy tunnels of shadows and open up new enlightenment. 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

follow the laws, but still have compassion over others, I was intrigued that Victor Hugo created Javert to be the opposite. To explain, Javert is persistent in imprisoning every person who has ever broken the law and has no leniency. Javert has an undeniable correlation with law in late nineteenth century France, so his faults alludes to the faults of the law. Through the embodiment of law in Javert, Victor Hugo in Les Misérables explains that the law can be a means to help and protect citizens,

nature is basically good is Javert. On page 336 it states, “Javert felt that something horrible was penetrating his soul, admiration for a convict. Repose first for a galley slave can that be possible? He shuddered at it yet could not shake it off… Javert bent his head and looked. All was black. He could distinguish nothing. He heard a frothing sound; but he did not see the river…”. This quote by Victor Hugo emphasizes on this unusual emotion of goodness arousing within Javert. It’s revealing a transformation

The Influence of Labels Through the individual stories of Jean Valjean, Fantine, and Javert, Victor Hugo relays how external labels can influence how individuals label themselves, impacting both their actions and sense of self. The main character of Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables, Jean Valjean, most prominently demonstrates the effect of labels as both a disadvantage and an advantage on his own growth as a human being. He is first introduced as a convict, whose “soul had withered more and more” and

Victor Hugo made it so that the characters in Les Miserables progressed throughout the novel. The theme “progress” can be seen and used widely. Three main characters, Jean Valjean, Cossette, and Javert expressed positive and negative forms of growth. Jean Valjean began the story as an ex-convict who was searching for food and shelter after working in the galleys for sixteen years. Unfortunately, he failed to receive compassion from any lodging, or home. While he was wandering through the streets

Miserables Pg. 57. If he stayed with the name society had left him with then, this would have never happened. Javert is a character in Les Miserables who is all about justice and truth. He always wants to be a man of justice and purge the world of liars, crooks, thieves, and criminals. Jean Valjean ,in Javert’s eyes, needs to be exposed for the criminal he is and must answer for his crimes. Javert represents societies want for Jean Valjean to answer for his crimes and their want to put a barbaric man

and generous. Others believe you have one chance to get it right, these people are often angry and judgmental. There are also those who believe that someone can't be redeemed, but begin to realize that people can change. By looking at the Bishop, Javert, and Jean Valjean and their actions it becomes clear that Les Miserables is a book about redemption coming to those who did wrongs in their past and the behaviors of those who believe and don't believe. The Bishop was only in Les Miserables for

Javert’s 24,601 Problems A man once said “The open minded see the truth in diffrent things: the narrow minded see only the difference.” Hugo’s character Javert can be described as a closed minded person. Born inside a prison Javert fully commits himself to a life of law and order. So much so that he hunts, chases down, and hunts again prisoner 24,601 also know as Jean Valjean to extreme measures. But after a selfless act of kindness by Jean Valjean to save Javert’s life rather than take it, Javert’s