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He was troubled; this brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; there was a cloud in this crystal.

~ Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo Confusion Depression Inner Conflict Javert Les Miserables

Sometimes a revolution turns into an actual government, or at the very least an actual way of life that contrasts with days past like blood on snow. Such was the case in France, where even as the guillotine released a steady river of gore, Royalist insurrections were suppressed by what had become a sophisticated military.In Toulon, the Royalist insurrection in 1793 led to an actual siege by republicans, spearheaded by none other than Napoleon Bonaparte. The Royalists in Toulon, supported by the British and Spanish, were feared by the republicans as an existential threat to every hope and promise of the revolution. For months there were bombardments, cannon fire that made the windows in the prison tremble.

~ Kelsey Brickl

Kelsey Brickl France Government Guillotine Javert Les Miserables Napoleon Prison Revolution Royalists Toulon

There was no justice in rebellion. This Javert had come to believe after seeing Marseille fall headfirst into the abyss of the revolution.

~ Kelsey Brickl

Kelsey Brickl Abyss France Javert Justice Les Miserables Marseille Rebellion Revolution Revolutionary Victor Hugo

Youth is as easily wasted as a fine wine consumed by a drunken man. There is no poetry in aging, and Javert lived out the process in its most hideous iteration.

~ Kelsey Brickl

Kelsey Brickl Aging Aging Gracefully Hideous Javert Les Miserables Poetry Wine Youth

One can say that Javert is our conscience. The ever lurking presence of the law and our own condemnation. The tension between who we were and who we are and who we can be. Javert represents that inescapable, shameful past that forever haunts and persues one's conscience. Javert is the man of the law, and... There are no surprises with the law. The principle of retribution is simple and monotonous, like Euclidean logic. It's closed to all alternatives and shut up against divine or human intervention... Indeed, Javert represents the merciless application of the law, the blind Justice that in the end is befuddled by hope and the possibility of redemption without punishment.

~ Cristiane Serruya

Cristiane Serruya Javert Law Les Miserables Retribution
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