Why does javert kill himself

He gave me freedom. I should have perished by his hand It was his right It was my right to die as well. Instead, I live And my thoughts fly apart Can this man be believed? Shall his sins be forgiven? Shall his crimes be reprieved? And must I now begin to doubt, Who never doubted all these years? My heart is stone and still it trembles The world I have known is lost in shadow. Is he from heaven or from hell?

And does he know That, granting me my life today This man has killed me even so? I am reaching but I fall And the stars are black and cold As I stare into the void Of a world that cannot hold. I'll escape now from that world From the world of Jean Valjean. There is nowhere I can turn There is no way to go on. As they emerge they meet Javert. Was it because he felt he had failed?

Was it because he didn't want to be indebted to a criminal? Was it because he realised he'd been pursuing a good man?

I can see these reasons upsetting him but not enough to take his own life! Improve this question. AakashM 1 1 gold badge 3 3 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges. Liath Liath Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Javert reveals his reasons in the song he sings when he commits suicide. Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. All of the lyrics to that song are relevant, such as "Damned if I'll live in the debt of a thief!

Thomas I agree, but some of the earlier parts of the song are a bit more defiant. I tried to id the point where he seems resigned to his fate. From wikipedia : When Valjean saves his life, Javert finds himself unable to reconcile his life's work pursuing criminals with the nobility and justice shown him by the man he thought was a criminal, and takes his own life by jumping off a bridge into the river Seine.

Maurizio In denmark Maurizio In denmark 4 4 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges. RedCaio I regret that I have but one upvote to give for your pun! Tom Tom 1, 7 7 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. Javert represents the Old Testament, the Torah. He lives the law, and he is the law. Jean Valjean represents the new law, the New Testament, the law of love and mercy.

Can you cite any evidence for this answer? Jesus didn't take away the old law, He just came to fulfilled it, as it were misunderstood and misapplied by people of the time.

Austin Mun Austin Mun 21 2 2 bronze badges. I've heard it said that nobody would remember the June Rebellion today if Victor Hugo hadn't put it in his novel; the period between the Bourbons and the Third Republic — is hard enough to keep track of without including every minor rebellion and counter-coup Carl Carl 1.

Is that actually true? Do you have any sources? Valjean was a middle-aged man and Fantine was a young girl. Earlier in the story, Fantine was fired from Valjean's factory.

Not by him, but by his foreman. I never got the feeling that there were romantic undertones between Valjean and Fantine , but maybe I just missed it. Under the care of Valjean and the nuns of Petit-Picpus, Cosette ultimately blossoms into a beautiful, educated young woman.

She finds fulfillment in her love for Marius. Cosette is innocent and docile, but her participation in Valjean's many escapes from the law show that she also possesses intelligence and bravery. The literal meaning of les miserables is "the miserable ones. The time period is the early 's. The main character is known as Jean Valjean. He is an ex-convict who is struggling with sorting his life out. Javert was not the villain.

He was an adversary of John Val John, but at the end of the day, he was just a cop trying to do his job. He soon realized that his actions contradicted what he felt was right. His suicide was because he felt that he could not go on after he let a paroled prisoner go. In the winter of , when resources were scarce, Valjean stole a loaf of bread from a local baker by breaking the window.

He was caught and imprisoned for five years in the Bagne of Toulon, the Toulon prison. How responsible is Jean Valjean for his financial success? Using the silver he was given by Bishop Myriel, Valjean revolutionizes the town's manufacturing and earns a fortune, which he spends mostly for the town's good, paying for the maintenance including required staff of hospitals, orphanages, and schools.

While Javert fits the model of a tragic hero in many ways, he's an unconventional tragic hero because he's an antagonist rather than the protagonist of the novel Valjean is the protagonist.

Javert's first name is Valentine or something similar. Does Javert kill himself in the book?