You Can Abhor an Action

We are former and reformed sinners. We will transgress often because society may have put us into a particular station in life. Sedata has some wonderful chapters on the central protagonist trying to ingratiate with the crowd. But he finds himself alienated from the crowd, the mass, the herd. He always feels like an outsider. And yes, this is why books like hugots las miserable inspires us,. Because it gives us a temple for morality and benevolence and virtue. Bion venu passes the temple on to jean valjean, and jean Valjean passes the temple onto us too.