"So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation, which, in the face of civilization, artificially creates hells on earth, and complicates a destiny that is divine, with human fatality; so long as the three problems of the age-the degradation of man by poverty, the ruin of woman by starvation, and the dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night-are not solved; so long as ignorance and misery remain …showed first 75 words of 1360 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1360 total…classes or areas in the French society. What Hugo truly exposes in this novel is the injustice of the French legal system during the time of the French Revolution, the constant battle against oppression that the people of France had to fight, and the strict standard of the class-based society at that time. All of this is combined together along with an intriguing storyline and interesting, relatable characters, creates the classic novel Les Misérables.