Les Miserables: Law and Social Order

[cherie_morte]

Title: Law and Social Order: Les Miserables' Javert and the Attempt to Repress Social Deviance with the Law
Fandom: Les Miserables
Characters/Pairings: Javert.
Genre: Non-Fiction.
Word Count: 2,582
Author's Note: Some of you may be familiar with my theory that Javert is very, very gay. For over two years I've been meaning to write a story

Comments

[cherie_morte]

Thank you so much for your kind words! And also for your constructive criticism!

I'm going to have to try to rework the first part as you make a very relevent point. Unfortunately for the sake of argument with these kinds of theories you sometimes have to generalize and exagerrate to prove a point but I do think that Javert did place special importance on Valjean before the barricades, probably not to the degree my paper states but I'm crossing my fingers and hoping my professor hasn't read Les Mis all that recently.

What I meant about Hugo not being able to come right out and say it was that in a work of Les Mis' popularity, a character at that time was not going to be explicitly gay. It would have made the public uncomfortable which is generally more expected from theatre. Also, Hugo himself while not condemning homosexuality seemed to be pretty uncomfortable about the idea, I wouldn't say he was trying not to be controversial so much as it just wasn't something he thought about on purpose.

Though, those barricade boys really are just a little gay pride parade, I don't know how to explain that one away. :oP

[icicaille]

Oh man, I've generalized and exaggerated to prove a point countless times in my papers, so I can certainly forgive/understand that.

Ah, I see your point regarding novel vs. theatre, and I agree. Had Hugo written Les Mis as a play, perhaps Javert would've been gay. Who knows! I think it's interesting to speculate upon.