'Les miserables: character analysis\r'

' blue jean Valjean jean Valjean is a central type reference of Les Miserables. His story is that of misery, pain, and injustice. Valjean is an abridgment of change. He makes transitions from integrity kind of man to another, as dictated by his drastic experiences in life sentence. Valjean’s life is a story of how an honest and sound man can be hardened by society in general, and prison in particular.Because of Valjean’s unfortunate experience in prison, he hardens into a criminal and a social outcast. This transformation in Valjean’s life is a recognition of the discovered truth and pattern of human behavior, wherein man changes, every for better or for worse, as a resoluteness of external forces such as society. The most pregnant part of Valjean’s personality is his resilience and validating attitude towards life and change in general. He accepts the positive effect of other people in his life, and learns to love and care for such people.Ultima tely, however, the good character of Valjean surfaces, and even the bishop realizes that, as shown by this passage:â€Å"The bishop approached him and said, in a low voice, ‘Do not forget, ever, that       you become promised me to use this silver to become an honest man. Jean   Valjean, who had no recollection of any such promise, stood dumb assembleed. The    bishop had tonic these words as he spoke them. He continued solemnly,             ‘Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer start to evil, hardly to good. It is your soul I am get for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of         perdition, and I give it to God!”FantineFantine is one of the characters in Les Miserables who lived the little appealing life. She had been strip of good opportunities since her childhood, such as culture and care. Thus, she grew up to be an uneducated little girl whom ever yone else found easy to victimize.Fantine can easily be categorized as a victim of society, since she had been deprived of pedagogy without her fault, and yet society readily found her corrupt and unfit for fruitful activity and relationships. A lot of people took advantage of her lack of knowledge, education and experience, and thereafter left her out in the cold. Fantine’s character is a perfect illustration of the superstition in human society and the story of her life is but a perfect example of the trend injustice ruins lives.Brought by her experiences, Fantine learned to have a different view of morality, as expressed in her education, â€Å"[T]he guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.”CosetteThe character of Cosette is in many prise similar to that of Valjean, an effect largely influenced by the last mentioned’s taking charge over her education and upbringing. Thus, like Valjean, Cosette exhibits her kindheart edness and morality through her actions, thereby manifesting that her initial experience with the cruel Thénardiers did not corrupt her character. Cosette, at one point in the story, said, â€Å"[W]e bow to the man who kneels. A faith is necessary to man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.” Such a statement reflects her belief about man, and shows how pure Cosette’s character has remained.Fortunately for Cosette, she had not been exposed to the kind of cruelty and hardship that Valjean went through, although she expressed resentment over Valjean’s overprotective stance. When viewed as a whole, Cosette’s character does not provide a lot of conflict, she being one of the lucky personalities in the story.\r\n'