Written for my English teacher last year, I dunno if it's that great, but it basically catalogues Javert throughout the book. I believe Javert to be a very interesting and controversial character, witha lot of emotional depth, even though it doesnt seem like it until the end of the book. Lemme know what you think.
Brea
I am Javert
My whole life I've been bound by law.
Following duty and
Bringing justice.
Why should others get away with wrong?
I am an officer of the law.
This man, Madeleine.
Who is he?
Where did he come from?
He looks familiar.
Like that convict,
Valjean was his name.
He's a robber
A man running from the law,
From justice.
He can run,
But he can not escape from me.
The Paris streets are dirty,
My disguise is disgusting.
But here is Valjean,
Posing, with his stolen fortune,
As rich, and kind.
But he is a convict, he must be stopped.
Escaped again!
No matter,
He will not leave Paris.
And so I will remain
Until I can arrest this convict.
These hoodlums, these idiots.
So sure in the revolution.
I may die, but they will follow soon after,
Still clinging to their silly dreams,
Of change, of power, Hah.
Power is in the law.
Valjean!
A revolutionary supporter,
How typical.
He seeks freedom from his unlawful past.
Seeks revenge for my attempts to bring justice.
But I am free.
What trick is this?
Valjean, he must be up to something.
But this boy?
Why save him, why sacrifice his own freedom
For a child?
He is good?
He is just?
He is merciful?
How can this be?
A convict, a mad man?
My whole life I've lived by the law:
A convict is a convict, no matter what.
But this convict, this man.
He saved my life,
And sacrificed his own.
He does not deserve the gallows.
I cannot return to my men.
I am a hypocrite, a fake.
I cannot claim to live by the law,
When I myself have broken it.
But I have discovered a truth.
Can there be an incorrect law?
Can a convict be a good man?
Yes.
But a police officer cannot make those decisions.
I am not a police officer.
I am nothing.