Like the faces of the coin, these opposing forces can never fully merge into the other, yet as separate entities, they make up a singular material which cannot do without one of the two missing.

This is Les Miserables, a never ending search for freedom which can only be the fruit of acceptance.

The obsessed law man and the saintly criminal.

The good who is not so good and the bad who is not all that bad.

Two grand and similar spirits that cannot exist as one, bound by the constraints of misinterpreted honor and the chains of the past.

Javert, born in jail, saw himself as an ostracized adolescent with but two paths open

In death, there is no denying that these two great and moving characters are the same. One's body ends up under a laundress' boat and the other, in an unmarked grave.

These two great characters, such strong and powerful figures of men, will forever be recalled whenever one thinks of Les Miserables, for they were truly one with the miserable.

Never again will they be les miserables.

They were freemen in bondage, both seeking blindly in life for that something they cannot even dare to perceive. They were looking for a missing necessity which they do not even know they lacked.

And in death they claimed what was rightfully theirs at the start.

In my point of view one of the most emotional and intellectual parts of the novel is Javert's suicide. It is the ultimate freedom from a life in which, although he has been continually capturing and chasing and imprisoning, he has been the one ultimate slave. H

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