Les Misérables uses philanthropic and loving tones to demonstrate the transformation of Jean Valjean from a hardened convict to a humanitarian.

The diction of Les Misérables amplifies the conversion of Jean Valjean. Valjean's "cries died away into the mist" from the "bad conscience" of a "miserable man." Jean feels only a haze of the world because he is an outcast. His ethics were put aside for a moment and he was sent into the galleys for 19 years. He is forced to live a depressing and gloomy life with his social status forever tainted. Then he is given a second chance, Javet finds he "owes his life" to a "convict" who gives "strength and courage to all." A man who spends his career searching for Valjean finds that he has a struggle of conscience and takes his own life because of his opposing loyalties. Through the opposition...