Les Mis World Tour, Manila, 2016-03-18
Why make Javert the villain of Les Mis when you could
1.) Not
2.) Not
3.) Not
that was cool toward the end of les mis how javert jumped into the seine and swam away. where did he go? i hope hes living a nice quiet life in a sweet cottage somewhere. hopefully he didnt have to swim for too long
The reason I love Javert as the antagonist in Les Miserables is that he acts a lot like the protagonist. Most villains in stories show themselves as evil like killing innocents and craves power. Javert, however, doesn’t want that. Javert believes he hunts down a criminal because he is dangerous. He is a monarchist and defends his belief. He follows the law by the book and believes it is the right thing to do. I love antagonists like them. It shows that even though you think that something is righteous, doesn’t mean that everyone else should think so as well.
Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, Chapter X, Book 5
I’M LAUGHING SO HARD, OH MY GOD
VALJEAN IS THE ENTIRE REASON JAVERT GOT TRANSFERRED TO PARIS
Therefore, Valjean is indirectly responsible for Javert getting a promotion. Which is fucking hilarious, because if we rewind a few books to when Javert was trying to get himself dismissed, we get this line from Valjean (Then the mayor):
“Javert, you deserve promotion instead of degradation.”
AND VALJEAN ACCIDENTALLY GETS HIM PROMOTED
I’M CRYING
(via autumngracy)
Les Misérables 2.5.10
Javert was afraid of being deprived of his convict.
Thank you Victor Hugo.
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Of course, Javert is very much moved in the end, with the revelation of Jean Valjean’s sublime qualities. But while Marius responds to the same discovery by trying to make amends, Javert commits suicide. Having abandoned his own quest to bring the outlaw to justice, the policeman triggers a series of reflections that flesh out his psychological profile. The man with no inner life is amazed to find that he has “under [his] breast of bronze something preposterous and disobedient that almost resembles a heart” (1325). He has learned to understand, to empathize with, and therefore to care about another.
In consequence, he has rendered good for good without any regard to external factors. Perhaps most puzzling, he has been able “to sacrifice duty, that general obligation, to personal motives, and to feel in these personal motives something general too, and perhaps superior” (1320). Public affairs have yielded to personal concerns of equal, if not greater, weight. The dichotomy between the particular and the general has suddenly dissolved, as private emotions have become invested with the sense of universal value previously reserved for the legal code.
This capacity for discerning and affirming a unique identity brings not joy and liberation but terror and disorientation: “Javert’s ultimate anguish was the loss of all certainty. He felt uprooted. The code was no longer anything but a stump in his hand… . Within him there was a revelation of feeling entirely distinct from the declarations of the law; his only standard hitherto” (1323).
Javert really isn’t alert all the time. And it’s kind of adorable.
I mean, during Fantine’s arrest he is so shocked about the whole situation that he just stands there for a moment and doesn’t snap out of it before he hears the sound of the latch when Fantine tries to leave. And at that point he has momentarily forgotten all about Madeleine being there and that the Mayor already said that Fantine is free to go.
Again at the barricades, when Javert is working undercover. He has been observing the revolutionaries like a hawk, and when he’s done doing that, he just sits down and spaces out. He “doesn’t seem to see anything that’s going on”, doesn’t even notice Gavroche circling around him, and when Enjolras finally asks who he is, he just kind of startles awake.
Javert is a daydreamer pass it on.
Well he is described as a “melancholy dreamer,” so …