the struggles of ex-convict JEAN VALJEAN and his experience of redemption. Hugo explains the work’s overarching structure: * A progress from evil to good * From justice to injustice * From falsehood to truth * From night to day * From corruption to life from bestiality to duty * From hell to heaven * From nothingness to God “The starting point: matter destination and the soul. The hydra at the beginning: the angel at the end.” JEAN VALJEAN: who becomes a force for good
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nature. Components of Romanticism and Realism are used by Hugo in order to successfully project his feelings about the plight of mankind. Various components of Romanticism and Realism can be found in Les Misérables‚ especially in the characters of Jean Valjean and Inspector Javert. Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement in the history of ideas‚ originating in Western Europe in the late 18th century. Romanticism stresses strong emotion‚ imagination‚ and overturning of previous social
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Miserables‚ by Victor Hugo‚ Jean Valjean is released from a French prison in the Galleys. He travels to a town and is rejected from any inn so he finds a bishop and he turns his life around. Years later he becomes M. Madeleine and becomes town mayor. He gives money and jobs and made the town a very prosperous town. He also promises Fantine that he will rescue her daughter‚ Cosette‚ from a cruel family that Fantine gave Cosette to so that Cosette could have a better life. Jean Valjean is an ex-convict who
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the theme of the novel. The lives that are most devastating in the town of M-sur-M would be Jean Valjean‚ Fantine‚ Cosette‚ and Eponine. These characters live everyday fighting to get through one-way or another‚ but it always seem there is a cloud of darkness and misery following them. Light might peak through but not for long‚ their lives either end content or unfinished and too early. Jean Valjean is the creation of the society he lived in‚ both in terms of the suffering that led to him stealing
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character of Jean Valjean and on how did he surpass the problems that he encountered. The character of Jean Valjean is influenced and linked with other characters whose lives become intertwined. Jean Valjean was an honest man who committed a minor crime of stealing a loaf of bread to feed his family.His criminal records led him to have a hard time finding employment‚ lodgings and place in the society. Despite of these hardships he met the Bishop of Digne who showed kindness to him. Valjean felt worthless
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thoughts. Hugo portrays the neutral state of mind through Jean Valjean and Cosette. The two extremes of good and evil are represented through Thénardier and the bishop. Good and evil coexists in the society and affects Valjean and Cosette. It is the two extremes of good and evil that dictate the lives of Valjean and Cosette. The bishop represents charity and love. Everything he’s ever had‚ he gave to charity. When the bishop first met Valjean‚ he said‚ "You need not tell me who you are. This is not
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Hugo goes into details about the obscene monstrosities of destitution in order to unveil the execrable environment‚ while bequeathing optimism to those who venture for virtue. Major character‚ Jean Valjean‚ falls victim to the tainted legal system and their corrupt‚ atrocious ways. When released‚ Valjean becomes ecstatic thinking about freedom‚ until he realizes that even though he was released from prison‚ he will never be free: “He had believed in a new life. He soon saw what sort of liberty that
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as the story did not revolve around one setting‚ place‚ or one character such Jean Valjean (Prisoner 24601)‚ Marius Pontmercy‚ or even Cosette. The film showed an equal importance to the majority of the characters as each of the characters of Jean Valjean (Prisoner 24601)‚ Javert‚ Frantine‚ Marius‚ and Cosette were highlighted in the film. It showed intense not just the poverty and struggles of the lives of Jean Valjean‚ Fantine‚ and Cossette who were abused‚ used‚ cheated‚ wronged and taken advantage
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Les Miserables is one of the most popular Broadway musicals of the century. It is based upon a novel written in the nineteenth century by a French novelist named Victor Hugo. The story follows a man named Jean Valjean who struggles with his everyday life of being an ex-convict. We see throughout the story line his experience of redemption and how he tries to become at peace with himself and God. The musical also provides an understanding into the idea of God’s presence in our world. In the Catholic
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secretly and use another’s property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need.” This quotation is really applicable to the life of the life main character who is Jean Valjean. Though stealing is an erroneous act but he extremely needs it and by this reason he may be free from sin. Remember he was sent to imprisonment for stealing bread and spent more years there for attempting to escape. He stole bread to feed the hungry
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