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1. Hugo constructs his rich narrative around these bare facts ... that
prostitution was not a moral failing, but a profession of last resort for
women with limited choices for survival.
2. For Javert, to allow these infectious agents to re-enter the world
above, to fail to mark, observe, categorize, and contain them, would
be to put society as a whole in danger of moral infection.
3. Hugo redeems the prostitute not by returning her to the path of
virtue, but simply by demonstrating that she never left.