what she means:
i wonder if people understand javert is supposed to be one of "les miserables" aka the miserable of society. he's as much a victim of society as any of the other character in the novel. do they know javert was never meant to be a villain, but another victim? is it willful misinterpratation im order to have an easy villain to blame the tragedies on? he is described as a fanatic, but always with the best possible human traits: his sin lies within his error, and hugo describes it as being pitiful and miserable; it caused him to kill himself as soon as he realised it. why simplify him to a villain when he was never written as such? the villain in les miserables is society itself, and how it ruins the people who live in it. javert is one of les miserables why make him the villain i dont
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Another thing for the consideration of let-it-be-extraordinary and hatarlakrits: Hayden Tee’s ‘Stars’ from yesterday. Listen out for his soft wonder when he looks up and notices the stars at the end of “the flame the sword” leading into “stars in your multitudes”.
“Twenty times he had been tempted to throw himself upon Jean Valjean, to seize him and to devour him, that is to say, arrest him.”—victor hugo pulling the fastest NO HOMO i have ever seen (via fungii)
Like pretty much everyone I adore Philip Quast as Javert <3 but my favorite scene in the whole show, the WHOLE show, is the confrontation. It is literally the only scene that matters people! :D Heres an AWESOME performance by Philip and I actually kind of like the guys voice as Valjean.