sacrifice their lives are looked down and smiled at because people know that if they died they did it for a good reason. The characters that really showed that is Jean Valjean‚ Marius‚ and Eponine. They really showed how much love they had for some people in the book and the movie. The one character that stood out to me the most is Jean Valjean and how a good person he was. He would do anything for anyone in the movie as well as the book. It is amazing to know some of the things that he has done for
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even death‚ good can still succeed. Through the characters Jean Valjean‚ Fantine‚ and Enjolras‚ Victor Hugo depicts the battle of good and evil and the ultimate triumph of good. The French revolution was a time when the disenfranchised and the powerless took a stand‚ and by fighting their oppressors‚ gained their freedom. The atrocities the Proletariat had to endure included menial labor‚ physical abuse of the weak‚ and starvation. Jean Valjean was a Proletariat French citizen who was forced into slavery
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believe Jean Valjean helped Cosette more than hindered her to become an adult. Valjean is known for being a convict and due to that‚ Cosette and himself never really lived a normal life without having to move constantly. Although‚ Valjean was a convict‚ he proved to be someone else‚ maybe not by his looks‚ but from his heart. Valjean took care of Cosette as if she were his own daughter. The love that he had given to her is what made her grow up into an adult. If one recalls‚ when Valjean had
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never expect Jean Valjean to leap out into the smoke clouds to save Marius life. If Marius would have never found out that Jean Valjean saved his life by dragging him through a sewer‚ Cosette would have never know that her “father” was dying and the story would have taken a tragic twist. While reading the remarkable novel of Les Miserable the reader asks themselves why did Jean Valjean save Marius’s life? And why would he keep it a secret? There are many different reasons why Jean Valjean didn’t inform
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Written by Victor Hugo after the French Revolution‚ Les Misérables is a story that examines the many levels of social injustice in nineteenth-century France. Its protagonist‚ Jean Valjean‚ is central to the understanding of this injustice. Sentenced to 19 years in prison for committing a petty crime‚ Valjean comes to observe the law as an arbitrary force lacking in compassion and equality. However‚ Valjean’s view is fanatically contradicted by Inspector Javert‚ a man whose commitment to the law
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being mayor in the book. The literary analysis provided examples from the book to show that the book had romanticism through tragedy. In the book Eponine dies for Marius by blocking the bullet that was headed towards him because she loved him. Jean Valjean dies because Cosette is taken away from him‚ because she has found another male figure in her life. The creative element had me put the facts I learned from the historical analysis of the author and the examples from the book from the literary
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one‚ “Fantine‚” in the novel Les Miserables‚ author Victor Hugo uses the helpless and beast-like character of Jean Valjean to demonstrate that when an individual‚ at his lowest point of being‚ is exposed to kindness‚ he may rise up and become virtuous‚ so that he may help others achieve this virtue in return. A helpless individual in the midst of a radically unequal society‚ Jean Valjean begins his journey without virtue and compassion‚ and until he meets a person who offers him the help and affection
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society - Jean Valjean‚ and his valiant struggle to redeem his past. The movie had been so well done. The actors and actresses had played their part and portrayed the characters in a way that the audience could really relate to. It was shorter than the adaptation of 2012 Les Miserables but the characters gave justice to their role. In addition‚ I prefer the 1998 adaptation than of the latest. Les Miserables is a story that portrays of the heroic life of a simple and good man in the person of Jean Valjean
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Miserables‚ by Victor Hugo‚ the protagonist‚ Jean Valjean changes throughout the course of the novel from a contemptible‚ conniving ex-convict to an noble‚ compassionate‚ and heroic man. During his time in jail‚ Jean Valjean’s heart becomes corrupted; he realizes the world detests him for who he is. However‚ a bishop named Myriel shows him great kindness and compassion for him‚ which transforms him forever. In a small town‚ Montreuil-sur-mer‚ Valjean restores economic and social balance as well as
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love. The main character‚ Jean Valjean‚ a former convict imprisoned for stealing bread‚ is constantly being pursued by his prison guard‚ Javert. Valjean hides his identity while on parole‚ changing his name to Monsieur Madeleine and starts a successful business but Javert still suspects him. Valjean witnesses Fantine‚ a destitute single mother who used to work in his factory in order to provide for her daughter‚ being harassed by a man and Javert tries to arrest her. Valjean convinces Javert not to
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