Despite these broad recommendations, Hugo offered no practical solutions for reforming schools, the police, the courts, and the prisons. He makes a case that crime and poverty can be eliminated through universal education, a criminal justice system that is flexible and focused on rehabilitation rather than punishment, and the more equal and humane treatment of women. In Les Misérables the author condemns the unjust class-based social structure in nineteenth century France for turning good people into criminals and beggars. Interweaving the social and spiritual threads of human life, the novel has been influential in making people desire a more just world. Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables (1862) is the great prose epic of the nineteenth century. However, the release of this film has given me the occasion to read and to reflect upon the original text of Victor Hugo’s 1862 classic, Les Misérables, a mosaic of social indictment, history, social philosophy, sentimentality, and spirituality. This essay is not a review of Tom Hooper’s recently released film of the tremendously popular 1980s stage musical. Reflections on Victor Hugo's Les Miserables
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