Victor Hugo – Les Misérables BACKGROUND : Victor Marie Hugo was the son of a general in Napoléon’s army‚ and much of his childhood was therefore spent amid the backdrop of Napoléon’s campaigns in Spain and in Italy. The first three years of his life were spent in Elba‚ where he learnt to speak the Italian dialect spoken in the island in addition to his mother tongue. Victor got a little education in a small school. At the age of eleven‚ Hugo returned to live with his mother in Paris‚ where he got
Premium Victor Hugo Literature
Victor Hugo is a celebrated French Romantic author best known for his poetry and his novels‚ including Les Misérables. Victor-Marie Hugo was born in Besançon‚ France‚ on February 26‚ 1802‚ to mother Sophie Trébuche and father Joseph-Léopold-Sigisbert Hugo. His father was a military officer who later served as a general under Napoleon. Victor Hugo studied law between 1815 and 1818‚ though he never committed himself to legal practice. Encouraged by his mother‚ Hugo embarked on a career in literature
Premium Poetry Edgar Allan Poe Short story
Other Times‚ Other Places: Les Misérables Author: Victor Hugo Year: 1987 (New English Translation by Lee Fahnestock and Norman MacFee). 1830 (Victor Hugo’s Original) Title: Les Misérables Country of Publication: New York‚ United States of America Set in the early 18th century‚ Les Misérables spans a few generations of people‚ who fought for freedom and well-being in a harsh world as pre-revolution and post-Napoleon France was. The story follows the political progress in France‚ for the second
Premium Victor Hugo United States
result‚ these children live their whole lives alone because they never had any family there for them. This is also shown in the novel Les Miserables through the characters Marius and Eponine. Hugo demonstrates the idea of neglect through the lack of family allegiance and shows how man can work through it. In Victor Hugo’s amaranthine classic‚ Les Miserables‚ neglect and the lack of family allegiance is portrayed as the undying force that causes man to resort to desperation to feel loved; throughout “Carnation
Premium Girl Neglect Victor Hugo
hear the people sing? Sing the song of angry men..." Perhaps many people are familiar with the song above‚ and this is from the movie called Les Misérables. The plot of the movie is based on the novel written by a French poet and playwright Victor Hugo. The beginning of the movie is set in the early 19th century France‚ in a prison. This movie is mainly about the main character‚ Jean Valjean‚ was sentenced to the jail for 19 years only because of having stolen a loaf of bread for his starving
Premium Jean Valjean France Victor Hugo
Movie Report for Les Miserables Les Miserables is a master work of Victor Hugo‚ one of the most prestigious novelists in the field of French literature. Under the background of nineteenth century‚ the novel has clearly appeared the plot by describing the tragic life of the impoverished people in England. The hero‚ Ran A Rang‚ a poor worker who had been sentenced to prison‚ once successfully crawled towards the higher class of society in his endeavors through disguising himself and doing good
Premium Virtue Religion Victor Hugo
world; from the world of Jean Valjean. There is nowhere I can turn. There is no way to go on!” These final words speak not only to a single characters demise‚ but to the demise of the class system in 19tyh century France. The system of oppression that Hugo states is “A world that cannot hold” ultimately speaks true. Though these systems of injustice appear again and again throughout history‚ in the end they all fail. They fail because even though there are those who fall into these systems and become
Premium Jean Valjean Victor Hugo
was a poet‚ writer‚ painter‚ translator‚ dictionary and Sanskrit grammar book compiler‚| |anthologist and Buddhist monk. | |In 1903 Su Manshu translated Victor Hugo ’s Les Misérables‚ a long novel consisting of 5 volumes (9 books). The | |translated version was presented in 14 chapters with 2 lines of titles at the beginning of each chapter to tell readers | |about the main content. He started with
Premium Ideology Qing Dynasty Translation
In addition‚ one of the most transcendental writers of Romantic period was Victor Hugo. He born in France in 1802‚ He studies laws but he decided to quit his job and became a writer. (Editors)Among of his works we can find “ Les Misérables” where he describes the society behavior after the French Revolution‚ also he wrote about how
Premium Italy Gothic architecture Middle Ages
Reading Notes Themes: Searching for Redemption Amir feels responsible for the death of his mother‚ who died during child birth‚ at the beginning of the novel we see Amir desperately trying to redeem himself to Baba by trying to win the kite tournament. Amir’s guilt from the incident regarding Hassan retrieving the losing kite is what causes Amir’s search for redemption. Closer to the end of the novel Amir travels to Kabul to retrieve Sohrab from Assef’s custody this is what redeems him. Earlier
Premium Khaled Hosseini Victor Hugo Hazara people