rapidly and carries sediment‚ it will return to clear when it finally stops. The highest good can be like water. Good and evil manifests before it. And it always keeps the original good intention‚ in spite of the changeable surroundings. In Hugo’s Les Miserables‚ the priest not only took Jean Valjean in after he knew that he was a criminal‚ but also forgave him for stealing his silverware by saying to the police that it was given to him as a gift. The priest showed the highest good and purified the soul
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MILLENA‚ GERALDINE‚ T. 11258314 / DGEI / MONOLOGUE: MIDTERM/ ORALCOM Les Miserables: ACT 36 “Cosette’s Appearance” The village street is bright with booths set up for a Frost Fair. Families and visitors are out buying baubles‚ or laughing at the antics of travelling players. Small girls cluster round a stall that displays prettily-dressed dolls. Amongst them is a prettily-dressed girl of 8 or 9 years: EPONINE. Across the road from this stall stands a shabby inn. A sign lashed to an
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Exemplified in VIctor Hugo’s novel Les Miserables‚ police inspector Javert demonstrates how the smooth arc of law is corrupted by rigid thinking involving the law‚ and how transformation allows for the construction of a better world‚ in which all men are equal. Justice and law are very powerful
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Victor Hugo‚ in Les Miserables‚ creates a Christ figure in the character of Jean Valjean. Jean Valjean is currently the mayor of a town after he runs away from his parole. His parole officer‚ Javert‚ is constantly on the lookout for him. One day‚ Valjean gets news that a man was captured and was going to appear before the judge because the man was framed as being Jean Valjean. Valjean is torn between letting the man take the punishment so that he could stay in his town and watch over his people
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Antoinette. Les Misérables is a Broadway musical and movie based on the book of the same name by Victor Hugo that was historically popular because it was supposed to be based on the French Revolution. The French Revolution and Les Misérables both showed an extravagant amount of poverty but Les Misérables did not show much about Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette even though the French Revolution revolved around them. One of the very significant similarities between the French Revolution and Les Misérables
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be free. France is also represented in this painting through the woman holding up the French flag and the tricolor making up the sky above Notre Dame. Known as a country that has revolted‚ known mainly to a younger audience due to the musical Les Miserables‚ France is a particularly powerful representation of Liberty and Freedom. Colour and Salience have been used by the artist to first draw our eye to the woman‚ dressed in yellow a colour that symbolizes anger‚ happiness and illness; these can lead
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Cosette and Jean Valjean undoubtedly represent the strongest parent-child relationship throughout the whole novel‚ and therefore‚ provides the clearest illustration of Hugo’s love theme. When Jean Valjean first “saw Cosette‚ when he had taken her‚ carried her away and rescued her‚ he felt his heart moved”(Hugo‚ 183). After the death of Cosette’s and finding the little girl in such poor condition‚ the white-haired man feels obliged to take care of the poor girl. Not much time goes by before Cosette
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some people hate them. 3. Digital cameras have made taking photos easier‚ therefore digital cameras have made developing photos cheaper. 4.When Charles Dickens wrote Great Expectations‚ he was paid by the word‚ also when Victor Hugo wrote Les Miserables he was paid by the word as well. Some speculate that this contributed to the descriptive style of both authors. 5. I learned how to type in high school. This was one of the most important classes that I took because I type all the time.
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“A fool thinks himself to be wise‚ but a wise man knows himself to be a fool” –William Shakespeare. In the book‚ Les Miserables by Victor Hugo‚ Javert is a man of the law‚ nothing more‚ nothing less. From the first time Javert and Jean Valjean met‚ he pretty much knew that was not going to be the last time. While I read the book‚ I noticed that Javert was going to do all he could to find Valjean but he let him slip a few to many times which classifies him as a coward. Now‚ I’m not going to call
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The Single Path of Javert In the novel‚ Les Miserables‚ Victor Hugo displays a lifestyle of a police officer named Javert with only one purpose; to serve justice. In the novel‚ Javert acts to what he truly believes is morally correct‚ but when his conscience gets the best of him‚ he overlooks his way of life leading up to his suicide. Javert has always been one to follow the law and believes there is a certain way of doing things and punishing people‚ even if it means his death. During the peasants
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