The book, Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, is a book which takes place in France, talks about how men and women die spiritually, morally and physically by the degradation of poverty. This book is about how a poor man who works in pruning the land, whose name is Jean Valjean. Unable to feed the family because of his low wages he steals a loaf of bread and is later found and incarcerated. After many failures of trying to escape, which prolong his time in the galleys, he gets out after nineteen years. “Jean Valjean entered the galleys sobbing shuddering: he went out hardened; he entered in despair: he went out sullen.” (Hugo 25). After a lesson from the bishop and his encounter with Petit Gervais, he decides to turn his life and becomes mayor of M- sur M-. Where he owns an industrialize
d factory and meets Fantine a poor woman who has left her daughter, Cosette, in an inn with the Thénardiers which mistreat the girl and scam the mother, in order to work and sustain her child. After she dies Valjean escapes the city and takes Cosette with him honoring her mother’s wishes. “On that same evening that Jean Valjean had rescued Cosette from the clutches of the Thénardiers, he entered Paris again” (Hugo 118). Cosette and Valjean travel around France together in order to escape the police, Cosette grows along the way to be a beautiful woman and encounters many experiences. Victor Hugo portrays three different themes that arouse in between the whole play. The theme I will be focusing is the ruin of woman by starvation, physical or spiritual.
The book, Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, is a book which takes place in France, talks about how men and women die spiritually, morally and physically by the degradation of poverty. This book is about how a poor man who works in pruning the land, whose name is Jean Valjean. Unable to feed the family because of his low wages he steals a loaf of bread and is later found and incarcerated. After many failures of trying to escape, which prolong his time in the galleys, he gets out after nineteen years. “Jean Valjean entered the galleys sobbing shuddering: he went out hardened; he entered in despair: he went out sullen.” (Hugo 25). After a lesson from the bishop and his encounter with Petit Gervais, he decides to turn his life and becomes mayor of M- sur M-. Where he owns an industrialize
d factory and meets Fantine a poor woman who has left her daughter, Cosette, in an inn with the Thénardiers which mistreat the girl and scam the mother, in order to work and sustain her child. After she dies Valjean escapes the city and takes Cosette with him honoring her mother’s wishes. “On that same evening that Jean Valjean had rescued Cosette from the clutches of the Thénardiers, he entered Paris again” (Hugo 118). Cosette and Valjean travel around France together in order to escape the police, Cosette grows along the way to be a beautiful woman and encounters many experiences. Victor Hugo portrays three different themes that arouse in between the whole play. The theme I will be focusing is the ruin of woman by starvation, physical or spiritual. 
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