However, Inspector Javert soon locates and unmasks him, starting a manhunt as he believes him guilty of much more. Something that not many know, and what they made reference in National Geographic, was that this character, Jean Valjean, along with Inspector Javert, are actually the same person in reality. In fact, Victor Hugo was inspired by one person for both characters.
This man was an ex-convict who knew how to redeem himself for his mistakes in the past, becoming a well-known businessman. And also the head of the National Security of France, as well as the first registered private detective. That's right, his great disguise skills served him to infiltrate any criminal group and, although his face was known, that did not stop him from continuing to work as an infiltrator among criminals.
For this reason, Vidocq was "the muse" that allowed Victor Hugo to create a double character, the hero and his antithesis, without realizing that, in reality, it was the same. Fantina is a girl of only 15 years old. In love with a man who finally abandons her, she becomes pregnant and she has to leave her daughter with a family to look for work herself. She meets Jean Valjean because he works in the factory, but is fired when they learn that she is the mother of a girl.
At that point, she is left with no choice but to prostitute herself and sell her hair to support herself. She is Fantina's daughter. The family that takes care of her treats her badly, forcing her to work despite her age.
However, Valljean saves her. He pays the family for the girl and takes her where they pose as father and daughter. Inspector Javert knows Jean Valjean because he was a prison guard when he was in jail. Upon meeting again, Javert realizes that he has changed his identity, and suspects that he does so because he is fleeing justice. He is also referred to as Monsieur Madeleine. Valjean is intelligent and resourceful, and notable for his incredible physical strength.
A young and beautiful woman from an impoverished background, Fantine is impregnated and abandoned by the man she loves. In order to support her daughter Cosette, she takes up a number of low paying manual jobs, and finally resorts to prostitution. She dies from consumption, but not before securing a better future for her daughter. A narrow-minded police officer, Javert is completed focused on upholding the law and punishing every kind of criminal activity.
He does not believe that one can reform oneself from a criminal background, and he pursues Valjean relentlessly, waiting for him to take a misstep. Javert is completely without mercy, but this harshness stems from his own past: he was born in a prison.
The daughter of Fantine, Cosette is abandoned by her father shortly after her birth. Valjean rescues her and raises her as his daughter. A gentle and pure young woman, she falls in love with Marius. The son of a war hero and grandson of an eccentric member of nobility, Marius is an intelligent and idealistic young man. He falls in love with Cosette and fights on the barricades. Her parents teach her to steal and cheat, but she is redeemed by her deep love for Marius. A greedy and selfish man, he works in a variety of jobs, including tavern owner.
He claims to have fought in the campaign. He and his wife take in Cosette, charging her mother a great deal of money and forcing the little girl to perform a number of chores. She and her husband take in Cosette, charging her mother a great deal of money and forcing the little girl to perform a number of chores. Javert is incapable of compassion or pity, and performs his work with such passion that he takes on a nearly animal quality when he is on the chase.
He nurses an especially strong desire to recapture Valjean, whose escapes and prosperity he sees as an affront to justice. Ultimately, Javert is unable to say with certainty that Valjean deserves to be punished. This ambiguity undermines the system of belief on which Javert bases his life and forces him to choose between hypocrisy and honor.
Read an in-depth analysis of Javert. A working-class girl who leaves her hometown of Montreuil-sur-mer to seek her fortune in Paris. Although she is frail, she makes a Herculean effort to feed herself and her daughter, Cosette. Even as she descends into prostitution, she never stops caring for Cosette. She represents the destruction that nineteenth-century French society cruelly wreaks on the less fortunate.
Read an in-depth analysis of Fantine. Marius grows up in the home of his grandfather, M. Gillenormand, a monarchist. Marius has an identity crisis when he learns the real reason for his separation from his father, and this crisis sets him on the path to discovering himself.
Monsiegneur Bienvenu The benevolent priest of the first book whose generosity and self sacrifice changes Valjean. Cosette The child of Fantine whom Valjean raises as his granddaughter. Marius College student and idealist who falls in love with Cosette. Gillenormand Grandfather of Marius. Representative of the old bourgeois.
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