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    The document provides a summary of the themes of redemption in the film Les Miserables. It discusses three key scenes: 1) When the Bishop of Digne helps the paroled Jean Valjean and urges him to become a better man. 2) When Jean Valjean rescues Fantine from jail and cares for her. 3) In the final scene, Inspector Javert spares Jean Valjean's life and commits suicide, showing redemption through compassion. The overarching theme is that love, compassion and forgiveness are the most important qualities one can display in life.

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    The document provides a summary of the themes of redemption in the film Les Miserables. It discusses three key scenes: 1) When the Bishop of Digne helps the paroled Jean Valjean and urges him to become a better man. 2) When Jean Valjean rescues Fantine from jail and cares for her. 3) In the final scene, Inspector Javert spares Jean Valjean's life and commits suicide, showing redemption through compassion. The overarching theme is that love, compassion and forgiveness are the most important qualities one can display in life.

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    Film Study: Les Misrables

    Hanneke Kassies Tuesday, December 17, 2013




    Redemption is the act of saving or being saved from sin,
    error, or evil.

    The first scene of redemption shown in Les Miserables would
    be when the Bishop of Digne let Jean Valjean into his home.
    Only after everyone else refused to help him because of his
    paroled status. During the night Jean steals from the
    Bishop and flees, this brings us to the next scene of
    redemption. He was later caught and brought back to the
    Bishop who freed him from the soldiers and claimed he gave
    Valjean the stolen items. The Bishop made Valjean promise
    that he would become a better man, which he vowed to do.

    In the next part of the movie it shows Jean Valjean as a
    changed and very successful man. Jean became mayor; a
    position that convicts or ex-convicts are not allowed to
    hold. Valjeans papers had all been burned so he created a
    new identity, an unknown identity thus letting him become
    so successful.

    Valjean ran the whole town and its businesses, plus a small
    factory where a woman named Fatine worked. Fatine worked
    hard to pay the people who took care of her daughter.
    However, women with children were not allowed to work, the
    head woman of the factory found out and fired her. Shortly
    after she was arrested for an altercation she did not
    cause. Jean released her from Javert and his soldiers.
    Fatine was severely beaten and Jean nursed her back to
    health even though she was labeled as a prostitute. Valjean
    nursed Fatine as long as he could; before Fatine passed
    away Jean vowed to take care of her daughter Cosette.

    Right before Jean Valjean was set to find and take care of
    Cosette inspector Javert shows up with news. Javert
    confesses to Jean that he has made an untrue statement
    about him and falsely accused him of being a wanted
    convict, Jean asks him to forgive himself and return to
    work.



    Valjean learns that an innocent man is standing trial for
    his crimes; he convinces the jury and confesses that he is
    the true Jean Valjean. He tells them to look further into
    the case to discover that he in fact is the true Jean
    Valjean.

    Jean then leaves to look for Cosette and stays in hiding
    once he finds her. He stayed in a convent for many years
    safe while Cosette was growing up. Cosette didnt want to
    stay in the convent. So Jean decides to go outside the
    convent walls also because Valjean recognizes he must allow
    Cosette her own life, he cannot protect her forever. Soon
    after leaving the convent Cosette falls in love with a
    young man named Marius.

    Moving out of the convent may not have been the best
    decision for Jean because Javert was still head of police
    and he noticed Jean. Knowing Javert he wanted to get
    Valjean now that he knew his true identity. Jean had the
    chance to kill Javert, even though everything they had been
    through Jean decides to spare his life and let him go. The
    last scene of redemption is shown in the very last scene of
    Les Miserables; after a lifetime of following the law
    strictly and never showing any amount of grace, Javert
    finally lets his prisoner, Valjean, free and condemns
    himself to death.

    In the movie Les Miserables, the author, Victor Hugo shows
    us that love, compassion and forgiveness are the most
    important gifts one person can give another and always
    displaying these qualities should be the most important
    goal in life.

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