Les Miserables

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book. Other characters are changed but only toward the end of the book.
Thenardier is shown as an evil man throughout the book, but it is at the end
where he contributes to the apotheosis of the good; this is the law of life
as God planned it. Javert acts like a robot, deciding always according to the
letter of the law and not its spirit, but in the long run his strength
proves spiritual weakness, until the end of the book. At the winding up of
the book, Javert encounters Valjean one last time. Instead of following his
instincts and avoiding thinking by arresting him, he slowly walks away with
a thought that morally he should let Valjean go. A new idea forced its way
into his consciousness. There is a higher law than the judicial law. A man
can be an outlaw and still be virtuous he decides, against the code of law.
He is now "an owl forced to gaze with the eye of an eagle."
Hugo shows the reader in this novel that all men can change, no matter how
set they ...

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