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Orphaned and penniless, the gentle and pious Justine sets out into an indifferent world determined to remain good, refusing every dishonest shortcut even as her cynical sister Juliette embraces vice and prospers. At each turn Justine falls into the hands of libertines, corrupt clergymen, false benefactors, and criminals who exploit, imprison, and brutalize her, then reward her with further misery precisely because she will not abandon her principles. Framing the narrative as a philosophical demonstration, the Marquis de Sade uses her ordeals as a vehicle for long, provocative arguments in which her tormentors justify cruelty by appealing to nature, self-interest, and the absence of divine justice. The result is a deliberately scandalous fusion of pornographic episode and Enlightenment-era polemic, attacking conventional morality, religion, and the belief that virtue is rewarded. 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