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Les Misérables: resumen de Book 7: Parenthesis, Chapter 3

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In Chapter 3, the narrator condemns monastic confinement as harmful to individuals and societies, rejecting attempts to restore outdated institutions through appeals to sacred tradition. The argument then distinguishes opposition to oppressive practices from the need for measured examination, leaving the religious question open for direct consideration.

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  1. The narrator describes monasticism as a force that reduces populations, coerces consciences, and imprisons people through permanent vows.
  2. Images of spoiled food, stale perfume, and returning corpses mock institutions that claim past usefulness justifies present authority.
  3. The narrator attacks thinkers who disguise obsolete institutions with appeals to morality, tradition, and religion.
  4. The argument calls for persistent resistance to superstition while insisting that examination, rather than destruction, sometimes suffices.
  5. The narrator renews the condemnation of ascetic confinement across nations, then turns toward the unresolved religious question.

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