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The word "miserable", which Victor Hugo used most in his novels, was used for the first time in this novel. About two centuries ago, Hugo realized that such a terrible punishment as execution was not beneficial to humanity and wrote it to raise public awareness and hid his name when it was first published. He emphasized that he watched the execution with pleasure and criticized it. He argued that no matter how big a crime a person commits, he does not deserve execution and that the power of destruction is unique to God. He advised healing the criminals instead of punishing and destroying people. These advice he gave in 1829 were only accepted by the socialist party in 1982. In the book, we encounter in a literary way how someone who knows when he will die perceives his environment and what internal processes he experiences. I think it is a must-read classic.
