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This selected paragraph focuses on Jean Valjean’s frantic, aimless midnight carriage ride, acting as a profound window into his chaotic inner mind and Victor Hugo’s masterful use of psychological characterization, symbolic writing and philosophical meditation on human conscience. The whole segment abandons intense external plot conflicts and fully sinks into Valjean’s tangled mental activities, successfully merging the character’s real physical rush with his spiritual torment, which makes it one of the most classic internal monologue fragments in the novel.boundary between external movement and internal psychology. The galloping carriage rushing through the night is the physical representation of his racing, chaotic mind; the endless dark night outside the carriage window is the visual symbol of his uncertain, frightening future. Every inner question and speculation pushes the plot forward subtly, laying adequate emotional groundwork for his final choice to confess his identity in court. Through this long inner monologue, Hugo does not simply describe a man’s panic, but explores the eternal conflict between self-interest and conscience, the collision between rigid legal rules and human mercy, and proves that ordinary people can choose goodness even under huge pressure. This excerpt fully shows why Les Misérables is a monumental work of humanism: it sees the complexity and fragility of human nature, while firmly believing in the possibility of spiritual redemption for every flawed person.

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