Les Miserables, Victor Hugo. Javert halts on a bridge above a rapid where "the best of swimmers are drowned." Hugo writes: "Javert felt duty divided within his conscience, and he could not conceal the fact from himself." Which conflict is this?

In Les Miserables, Jean Valjean lives under the name Fauchelevent because the law still counts him a convict who has broken his ban. Which conflict does that hidden life turn on?

Les Miserables. Captured at the barricade and expecting to be shot, Javert says to Jean Valjean only: "Take your revenge." Which conflict does Javert believe he is in at that moment?

Les Miserables. Fantine is arrested after she attacks a man who has pushed snow down her back, and Javert orders six months in prison. Which conflict does her arrest turn on?

Les Miserables. An innocent man, Champmathieu, is about to be sentenced in Jean Valjean's place. Valjean is now a trusted mayor with a factory and a town. What is his inner conflict about?

Les Miserables. Valjean tells the court: "Gentlemen of the jury, order the prisoner to be released! Mr. President, have me arrested. He is not the man whom you are in search of; it is I: I am Jean Valjean." What does this choice cost him?

Les Miserables. Javert has wrongly denounced Mayor Madeleine and now asks to be dismissed: "Now, if I were not severe towards myself, all the justice that I have done would become injustice." What does he value here?

Les Miserables. Javert tells the mayor that upholding a woman of the town against a citizen is false kindness, then says: "it is very easy to be kind; the difficulty lies in being just." Which value does he place above every other?

Les Miserables. After Jean Valjean sets him free at the barricade, Hugo writes of Javert: "A convict was his benefactor!" What does that debt cost Javert?

Les Miserables. Across the whole novel, which pair of characters carries the central conflict?

Les Miserables. Hugo writes of Javert after the barricade: "He walked with drooping head for the first time in his life, and likewise, for the first time in his life, with his hands behind his back." What change does this mark?

Les Miserables. The gendarmes bring Valjean back to the Bishop with the stolen silver. What does the Bishop do?

Les Miserables. The mayor overrules Javert and orders Fantine set at liberty. What does Javert do about it?

Les Miserables. Hugo writes: "Javert had been born in prison, of a fortune-teller, whose husband was in the galleys." How does the reader learn this about him?

Les Miserables. The Bishop tells the gendarmes he gave the silver away, then hands Valjean the candlesticks as well. How does the reader learn that he is merciful?

Les Miserables. Javert seizes the mayor by the collar in front of the sick Fantine, and Hugo writes: "It seemed to her that the world was coming to an end." How is Javert's power shown here?

Les Miserables. Valjean asks for three days to fetch Fantine's child. Javert answers: "You are making sport of me! Come now, I did not think you such a fool! You ask me to give you three days in which to run away!" Which method is at work?

Les Miserables. Judging by the long pursuit of Valjean by Javert, which contrasting pair of ideas is the novel built on?

Les Miserables. Hugo writes: "Was it not a fearful thing that Javert and Jean Valjean ... should have come to such a pass, that both of them had set themselves above the law?" What does this do to the law and mercy pair?

Les Miserables. After the Bishop's gift Hugo writes that no middle course remained: "if he wished to become good he must become an angel; that if he wished to remain evil, he must become a monster." Which pair is set before Valjean?