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The title of this paper is “The Dimensions of the Main Character in Victor Hugo-s Les Miserables”. The paper tries to analyze and discuss about the dimensions of the main character of the novel created by Victor Hugo, Les Miserables. In analyzing the dimensions of the main character, the writer applied the theory of LajosEgri in his book entitled The Art of Dramatic Writing as the main theory. Besides, the writer alsoused the other supporting theories which can be seen in the bibliography section. In conducting the research, the writer applied three steps and those steps are data source, data collection, and data analysis. The data source of this paper was taken from a new simplified edition novel published online in 2015 by E-Pen Book Publisher Company, Inc. on their own site, which the original version was written by a very famous author, Victor Hugo, entitled Les Miserables. Then the data are analyzed based on the theory of character. Based on the result of the analysis, there are three kinds of dimensions found in Hugp-sLes Miserables, which are Physiological Dimension, Psychological Dimension and Sociological Dimension. The physiological part of the dimensions relates to the physics of the character in the story. The psychological dimension relates to the attitude and the behavior of the main character, while, the sociological dimension can be seen through the main character-s social class.