Jean Val Jean And Javert

He was presumably born in 1780 and died on june 7 1832.

Jean val jean and javert. Hugh jackmanas jean valjean a frenchman released from toulonprisonafter 19 years of imprisonment for stealing bread and failed attempts at escaping from the prison. The main character of the story is jean val jean. For valjean justice is solidarity in the interest of personal love. First a prison guard and then a police inspector his character is defined by his legalist tendencies and lack of empathy for criminals of all forms.

Though jean valjean s only crime was stealing a loaf of bread javert believes that the commitment of any crime makes one criminal and evil through and through. He is a large man very strong but with a good heart. He is a french police inspector who devotes himself completely to the law and follows it unflinchingly. Inspector javert is the main antagonist of victor hugo s les miserables and the subsequent musical and film adaptations even including a 2007 anime called les miserables.

Turns to fantine valjean. Javert few evangelical christians will recognize themselves in javert because he seems committed to the logic of works righteousness and a denial of the possibility of spiritual redemption and transformation. Javert was born inside of a prison to a fortune telling mother and a galley doomed father. After leaving valjean at his house javert wanders the streets of paris lost in thought.

For javert justice is retribution in the interest of maintaining an abstract order. The minor characters are javert a police investigator who is said to have a bullet shaped head. Jean valjean realizing the depths of his own sin and his great need for redemption has been able to receive god s mercy. Around june 2011 jackman met with producer cameron mackintoshto audition in new york.

This highlights another aspect of javert s character his unwillingness to change or recognise another way of looking at things. Valjean breaks a chair and threatens javert with the broken piece. In les misérables he becomes obsessed with the pursuit and punishment of the protagonist jean valjean after his violation of parole. This timeless story brings to mind jesus warning in matthew 21 that the tax collectors and prostitutes would enter heaven before the pharisees.

He feels that turning in valjean would be ignoble and undignified but as an officer of the law he feels he cannot let his man go. Jean valjean is nothing now dare you talk to me of crime and the price you had to pay every man is born in sin every man must choose his way you know nothing of javert i was born inside a jail i was born with scum like you i am from the gutter too. Javert is a fictional character and the main antagonist of victor hugo s 1862 novel les misérables. For this small crime jean valjean or as javert calls him prisoner 24601 spends 20 years in the prison galley where javert treats him as the worst of criminals.