Hugo set forth the purpose of Les Misérables--帝製 or not

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回答: 按雨果的原意，應該是專製帝製帶來的對人性的壓製和不公。由 Porcelana 於 2019-01-19 21:05:42

帝製 or not--Hugo set forth the purpose of Les Misérables in the P

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回答: 這是一部反帝製的劇。美國沒有皇帝，所以不會發生在美國，隻會發生在有專製皇帝的地方。由 Porcelana 於 2019-01-19 20:18:30

Hugo set forth the purpose of Les Misérables in the Preface:^[3]

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 women by starvation, and the dwarfing of childhood by physical and spiritual night—are not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words, and from a yet more extended point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.

Towards the end of the novel, Hugo explains the work's overarching structure:^[4]

The book which the reader has before him at this moment is, from one end to the other, in its entirety and details ... a progress from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsehood to truth, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, from corruption to life; from bestiality to duty, from hell to heaven, from nothingness to God. The starting point: matter, destination: the soul. The hydra at the beginning, the angel at the end.