Les Miserables

Les Miserables “The awakening of conscience is the greatness of soul.” Jean Valjean was born with poverty as his twin brother. He had lived with it, thus making him so attracted to its powerful magnet and pulling him towards starvation, which compels him to steal a loaf of bread. Only attempting to ease the hunger of his beloved, he fell into a deeper abyss of darkness – he was doomed to live the nineteen years in …

…criminal, a horrible convict, lived a miserable life in the dreamy darkness but awakened in this deep slumber by the light of Monsieur Myriel. He truly lived, then, touching others’ lives. He died but as content as he was, physically freed by Javert and spiritually freed by the revelation of his true self. He was not afraid to die as long as he had served his purpose in this journey obstructed by miseries called life.