Reflective Writing #5

One day he heard the story of a criminal case to be tried. A poor man-out of love for a woman and their child had been making counterfeit coins, his real money gone. At that time, counterfeiting was punishable by death. The woman was arrested for passing the first piece he made. She was held in prison, but there was was no proof against her lover. She alone could testify against him and,if she did, would risk losing him. She denied his guilt and would not change her story. Frustrated, the king's prosecutor made a plan. He told her the man was unfaithful and produced pieces of some forged letters. Filled with jealousy, the woman denounced the man and confessed everything. now he was told to be tried along with her in a few days. The story was told and retold was delighted by the prosecutor's clever trick. By bringing jealousy into play, he used anger to produce the truth. Justice had sprung from revenge. The bishop listened to the story is silence; then he asked, "Where are the man and woman to be tried?"
At the Superior Court."
"And where is king's prosecutor to be tried?"

Excerpt from LES MISÉRABLES pg 4 By:Victor Hugo

Truth, it is the established fact otherwise known as the adherence to a standard or law. It is what the justice system is "supposedly" based on. Some people believe that a little truth lives within the lie, because at times it is what brings the truth to the surface. Sometimes one has to break to rules in order to uphold them.As in LES MISÉRABLES, Hugo demonstrates how revenge springs about the truth with the prosecutor's lie.By using the woman feeling's to capture her lover the prosecutor had to step out of his profession to get the truth. The truth which was finally brought forth by the lie led all to be trialed.
Hugo clearly showed how one lie brought upon the another, ultimately leading to the truth. Using the prosecutor as way of seeking the truth, Hugo revealed that although unjustly, justice was still accomplished.
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