Les Miserable

Les Miserable is the representative work of Victor Hugo, which I would like to think of as a photograph of the people´s real miserable life in eighteenth century rather than just a novel. As we can find the unfair judicial system and the desperate life of the poor people at that time when we see Jean Valjean was sentenced to serve five years in prison just for a piece of bread stolen to save children, find the good and evil of human nature from the bishop and the tenadiers, and find teenagers throw themselves into the revolution to save the country.Extreme anger hit me when I see the tenadiers abuse little Cosette, when I see Fantine was bullied by wicked women and when I see Jean Valjean was excluded although he had dond so many good deeds. The ugly side of human nature frighten me. However, I began to think if the wicked people are born to be evil and I find it is not.The wicked people may also live a miserable life for which they take the misfortunes of others as their own happiness or they are be bound by traditional idea. Javert is a good example. He protect the legal system, which we think is always right. But when the legal system is not so fair, stubbornly defending it will destroy real justice. It lead to the collapse of his spiritual world when Javert finally find it. How could we tell he is a good person or a bad guy?The society was miserable, but hope always exists. Lots of teenagers set foot on the road of Republicanism to push the country to a totally new bright world. Marius is a representative of these teenagers. Affected by his grandfather and father, he experience a great struggle of which party to choose. Finally he and many other teenagers find the right way, devote into it and bring bright future to people suffered from misery and poor, to the dark society and to the lunatic country. They make the sacrifice of the old generation meaningful. It is obvious that a great change of the society need effort and sacrifice of several generations and must experience hardships and hurtful thoughts´ changes. Only strong will and firm belief can be the weapon to fight.What Victor Hugo want to tell us by showing the scenes he saw during his exile life in Canarsie island, I think, is not only his condemnation of the injustice and sympathy for bottom people but also his praise of people´s courage to face heavy suffering and the boldness to chase a better life embodied by Jean Valjean and Marius, which push this work to such a high status. So, when we face difficulties in life, maybe we can find answers in this book as it tell you that you are not so miserable compared with the characters in it and what qualities you need to arm yourself. We should also have the eyesight to find misery around us as Victor Hugo and make some changes for our world.