... . Boleslawski wanted his audience to understand where Valjean had come from. His lifestyle during his conviction and his incarceration are huge factors in his life that encouraged him to remember his morals and change his life. Bille August, the director of the 1998 interpretation, gave more room in his interpretation for his audience to question Valjeans character. Valjean was able to reveal ... was scourned as much as being a convict. She was unable to find work where people knew who she was and her background. After seeing the Thénardier children playing outside, she believed that he...

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... is evidenced in the novel through Fantine, a young girl who is employed by Valjean (M. Madeleine; Valjean's assumed identity). She is an unwed mother, who is being blackmailed by the people who are caring for her daughter, Cosette. Fantine is forced into prostituting herself to pay the Thenardier's rising demand for money. One night, while waiting for possible customers outside a bar, Fantine is ... promises to care for her and her child. Javert's actions toward Fantine demonstrate the rigidness and inflexibility of the justice system in France at that time. Both punished people without...

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