Alexiah Brown Basley-Dees English III 23 February 2015 Victor Hugo Hugo is considered one of the leaders of the Romantic movement in French literature as well as one of its most prolific and versatile authors. Although generally known outside France for his two world famous novels Notre Dame de Paris (1831) and Les Misérables (1862), he is renowned in France predominantly for his contributions to the Romantic Movement of the 19th century. Victor Hugo was an exceptional author, poet, artist and political
life seems to stop / As if something is over / And something has scarcely begun”. These lyrics from “In My Life/A Heart Full of Love” show how shallow the relationship was between Marius and Cosette. Throughout the story of Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, we see the development of many connections between characters. Cosette and Marius had a romantic relationship solely based on their young infatuation with one another. Their attraction to each other came from perceptions of physical
an ever-changing world, but those individuals who cannot adjust tend to lose their grip. This concept plays a huge role in the novel A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, as well as in the movie Les Miserables, directed by Tom Hooper, based on Victor Hugo’s book of the same name. Taking place during France’s major periods of revolution, the first occurring before and during the French Revolution, and Les Miserables twenty-four years later, the two novels showcase the difficult lives of the poverty
play can largely be explained that Rigoletto is a play which you can determine how unlucky the life of Rigoletto is, and it’s because of the curse. A curse that is genuinely terrified Rigoletto. Rigoletto was based on the play Le ra S’amuse by Victor Hugo. To someone reading and/or watching Rigoletto for the first time, it will therefore come as something of a shock to discover that his daughter, Gilda, will soon die because of her stupid love to the Duke. Rigoletto tried to fix all of their problems
My thesis emphases primarily on racial stereotypes, gender issues, classes …. In other words Otherness (its causes and consequences) the chosen novel discuss the previous themes of racial profiling, injustice, slavery and the evils residues of the system. Through the novel, we can infer several images of otherness in that period of time widening the scope of stereotypes hence the Other’s image. Historical background about the theory of the Other The Other infiltrates our existence to the