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The Grand Spirits of The Miserable Javert and Valjean The world is composed of light and dark. It is of evil and good, concrete and abstract, black and white, planes and curves, stark and subtle. Like the faces of the coin, these opposing forces can never fully merge into the other, yet as separate entities, they make up a singular material which cannot do without one of the two missing. This is Les Miserables, a …

…recalled whenever one thinks of Les Miserables, for they were truly one with the miserable. They were freemen in bondage, both seeking blindly in life for that something they cannot even dare to perceive. They were looking for a missing necessity which they do not even know they lacked. And in death they claimed what was rightfully theirs at the start. Freedom. They will never be slaves again. Never again will they be les miserables.