How Does Javert Fight Against Injustice
If history has shown us one thing it is that in times of terrible injustice and horrid tragedy how people react tends to be radically divided. When looking back at unjust acts done against others there always seem to be a large amount of people who seem to agree with said action, or are indifferent to it. It is difficult to look back at times when people were being mistreated and completely understand why more people didn't fight against the injustice. And though there are people who we now consider hero's for taking a stand against oppression, they only make it harder to grasp how people could have ever opposed them in the first place. History is stained with the folly of man; many times society has promoted true injustice against groups
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And that seems rather apparent in his character of Javert, who hunts down a man for years simply because that is the law. It is impossible to ignore the influence those in power have over the opinions of the masses. However Hugo’s story also shows that despite such influences enlightened minds can and should rise up and try to create change. Though in “Les Miserables” the destruction of the class system does not come about, one thing does change, and that is Javert’s view of Valjean. Javert’s change of perspective causes him to question everything he has believed in his whole life. In the 2012 rendition of “Les Miserables” right before Javert plummets to his death, he says, “I am reaching but I fall. And the stars are black and cold, as I stare into the void, of a world that cannot hold. I’ll escape now from that world; from the world of Jean Valjean. There is nowhere I can turn. There is no way to go on!” These final words speak not only to a single characters demise, but to the demise of the class system in 19tyh century France. The system of oppression that Hugo states is “A world that cannot hold” ultimately speaks true. Though these systems of injustice appear again and again throughout history, in the end they all fail. They fail because even though there are those who fall into these systems and become blinded, there will always be others who stand up and fight against
And that seems rather apparent in his character of Javert, who hunts down a man for years simply because that is the law. It is impossible to ignore the influence those in power have over the opinions of the masses. However Hugo’s story also shows that despite such influences enlightened minds can and should rise up and try to create change. Though in “Les Miserables” the destruction of the class system does not come about, one thing does change, and that is Javert’s view of Valjean. Javert’s change of perspective causes him to question everything he has believed in his whole life. In the 2012 rendition of “Les Miserables” right before Javert plummets to his death, he says, “I am reaching but I fall. And the stars are black and cold, as I stare into the void, of a world that cannot hold. I’ll escape now from that world; from the world of Jean Valjean. There is nowhere I can turn. There is no way to go on!” These final words speak not only to a single characters demise, but to the demise of the class system in 19tyh century France. The system of oppression that Hugo states is “A world that cannot hold” ultimately speaks true. Though these systems of injustice appear again and again throughout history, in the end they all fail. They fail because even though there are those who fall into these systems and become blinded, there will always be others who stand up and fight against