Essay on Victor Hugo's defintion of justice: Les Miserables is a book written by Victor Hugo is 1862. The main charcters are Javert the policeman and Jean Valjean the former convict. According to Hugo, true justice is a matter of conscience rather than of socail conformity. Both the Bishop and Jean Valjean regard justice as being a matter of conscience. Moral and/or divine justice takes precedence over any human or social law. Javert, on the other hand, is concerned solely with social justice and human law. In Javert's scheme of things, justice has been served when laws have been obeyed....
