#1.6.2

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This Erin is from 1.6.2!

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Javert in 1.6.2:

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February 23rd

Today was the end of Vol 1; Book 6!

54 chapters read, 311 chapters left

14.79% thru the brick!

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Brickclub: 1.6.2

We get another character study of Javert, one which builds on the first one and points out the ways in which he has changed. He’s the kind of man who, apparently, displays all his feelings on his face, making this another way in which he is diametrically opposed to Valjean. Javert spends this entire interview visibly upset, while Madeleine spends it serene and calm except for one moment at the start. We, the readers, can assume that there’s some pretty intense emotions going on in his head, but none of that makes it into his expression or his tone of voice.

We get a lot of good pithy descriptions of Javert, including my favorite, “a man who has never been agreeable and has always been patient." That seems to me to sum of Javert pretty effectively, really. Javert is not a man without virtues, but he is a man without softness. Even more than that, he is a man who has rejected softness -- he says it himself, that kindness is easy and justice hard (a statement that I, and possibly also Hugo, believe to be exactly backwards). When he is offered softness, he not only doesn’t want to accept it, he literally cannot. It contradicts every single thing he has worked towards so badly that it just doesn’t compute.

But that rigid adherence to a system that has already judged and condemned him is paired with a tendency to make himself the main character of his own story. Which is not a bad thing -- we should all be the main characters of our own stories -- but Javert seems to have accomplished the doublethink of doing so while telling himself that he has done something else. What he believes that he’s done is to put himself in his rightful place, to cede the stage to the rightful protagonists of society, namely the rich and powerful at the top of the hierarchy. They, he believes, should take center stage in the story, not only of society, but of Javert’s life and thought process. But in order to do that he’s constantly casting himself as a martyr to society, sometimes quite melodramatically. It feels like there’s part of Javert that realizes that what is happening, to him and to everyone like him, is not justice, and that the only way he can deal with this niggling realization is to cast himself as someone who is deliberately embracing these injustices and recasting them as just.

Jean Valjean externalized the injustices he faced and was on the way to doing his damnedest to punish society for them. Javert has internalized them and is instead punishing himself (and, by extension, everyone else) for them.

And Javert, in his entire fucked up tragedy of an existence, is here to ask the reader a single, deeply important question: “What use is there for Justice without Kindness?” We see the results of this kind of justice: We see them with Jean Valjean, with Fantine, with Javert. All of these people were judged according to the law of their society, in a way that, if everything is taken utterly dispassionately and with no attention to context, could be construed as Just. And this narrative is deeply invested in showing us how that Justice has done nothing but ruin lives. It hasn’t made society better, it hasn’t taught anyone anything. Justice without Kindness is functionally indistinguishable, in the world of this book, from outright Cruelty.

Also some plot happens.

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1.6.1

The chapter continues the themes of Fantine as Christ with the martyr symbolism or a fallen angel except it is not even trying to be subtle about it with the crucifixion portrait and the light imagery.  

Madeleine tries really hard to solve problems by throwing money at them, which is why it is hardly surprising that this technique backfires on him with Thenardier who is greedy and can never have too much and who obviously thinks Fantine has a lover who is willing to pay any amount of money he names. I know part of him wanting to bring the child here is that he feels immense guilt about his part in Fantine’s story, but really there are better ways of handling problems.

The nuns too take their time to accept Fantine, which I found interesting and @pilferingapples mentioned already, with the women being pitted against women and also having a parable in Christianity with the wise and foolish virgins.

1.6.2

Javert has been linked to animal imagery before and in this chapter he is mentioned with regards to physiognomy. It is interesting that he should be mentioned in such terms, it is especially suited to him as Hugo tells us he cannot lie, cannot conceal things in his face, so it is rather effective as a tool for talking about him. Though I do wonder - How is he such a good spy? if he cannot lie and keep secrets. :P . Here, Madeleine/Valjean and Javert stand in contrast and antagonism to each other.  

Javert is at once described a mixture of a really good spy/sleuth, but also likened to a monk, which tells of the life he lives - devoid of any comforts and dedicated to his inspector duties and he possesses the discipline of a military man. I do feel uneasy at his comparisons to a savage upholding civilisation- it may work as a symbol of his outsider status, but it still makes me cringe a little.

It is obvious that Javert’s act of denunciation in this chapter is motivated by Madeleine helping someone beyond the pale of society like Fantine, Javert respects authority, sometimes too much and considers that the natural order of things. Therefore his denunciation of Madeleine was very out of the ordinary for him and done in a fit of jealousy, otherwise it would not have crossed his mind and it is this causing him a tempest of sorts.

It is possible that Javert cannot understand Madeleine acting on Fantine’s behalf and his kindness to her, but suspects hidden criminal motives. Madeleine is likely to be Valjean because he is kind to another outcast like Fantine and it fits with Javert’s view of the world.

It is also amusing that for all that, Javert seems to take a leap of imagination, while connecting Madeleine with Valjean because of his physical strength. He sees only the outward signs that are common between them and leaps to a conclusion despite his meticulousness otherwise.

In fairness to Javert, he believes too much in the legal system and is eager to assign punishment for himself to correct the wrong, the same way he would to anyone. He believes in a moral order/code and integrity and for that he places himself under scrutiny as well, which is one of the better qualities in him. **Cue jokes about him liking/wanting to be punished by Valjean**

But it is clear that he sees everything in black and white and his moral code is simple unlike Valjean’s and it comes into contact with Valjean’s moral code of forgiveness and kindness during his tenure as a mayor, which puzzles him. His narrow view of the world means that he can see that Fantine as a prostitute should not exist but instead of thinking about what leads to prostitution, he confines himself narrowly to the fact that Fantine needs to be kept outside society and punished because she is a prostitute. It is also perhaps why it is easier for Javert to imagine that Champmathieu must be putting on a show by pretending to be dumb. Javert’s speech at the end amplifies his views- he thinks kindness disrupts the order of society- the order which he has assigned himself to protect, and which he links with justice and right, without going deeper into questioning whether the order is worth protecting.  

Champmathieu’s theft was inconsequential, at worse he stole an apple because he was hungry – a callout of the society and its lack of systems to support the poor, he should not even have been arrested in the first place. What Javert says in a casual manner though, really hurts, that nothing remains of Valjean’s family and that families of the poor and downtrodden are often disappearing- another sign of Javert noticing the workings of society and the system it upholds but not making the connection to the problems in it.  

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Happy Les Miserables 1.6.2. to all those who celebrate.

[ie, Valvert shippers]

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