Your legal rights are the rights you have that are written in document form that are backed by the law while your moral rights are the rights you ought to have through the code of ethics/morals. Simple examples could be the following: you have the legal right to an education and everyone has the moral right to being treated equally. It is possible to relate many characters to these differences, but in my eyes, I see Jean Valjean as being a worthy example of such. Jean Valjean’s reason for arrest shows us the conflict between the two rights - it is illegal to steal something however everyone has the moral right to a happy and healthy life where you should be allowed to eat food. The reason Javert decided that suicide was his fate was because
