LES MISERABLES --Victor Hugo‚ published 1862 --the Miserable‚ the wretched‚ the miserable ones‚ the poor ones‚ the victims -- French Revolution About: Novels follows the lives and interactions of several characters‚ focusing on the struggles of ex-convict JEAN VALJEAN and his experience of redemption. Hugo explains the work’s overarching structure: * A progress from evil to good * From justice to injustice * From falsehood to truth * From night to day * From corruption to life from
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Nelson’s Odin‚ however embodies a high schooler. Odin is young and seems extremely immature. Odin has complete trust in Hugo and when Hugo suggests watching Desi more closely‚ he does just that. Instead of having leader and servant relationship‚ it feels like Odin and Hugo are on equal levels and are friends. Just as their characters are different‚ Othello and Odin’s reactions to Iago/Hugo are different. When Iago told Othello about his suspicions about Desdemona‚ Othello holds
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Essay – Susan’s story In the 20th century many adults gets a divorce. 40 years ago very few got a divorce‚ a relationship ended when his/her partner died. Back then it was striking‚ when a couple got a divorce‚ and you got a bad reputation in the town you lived in. Now it is not a strange thing to get a divorce‚ it happens every day. When something goes wrong in their relationship‚ they get a divorce. No one fights for love anymore. If love dos not succeed first time they try‚ they give up and
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Throughout the whole plot of Les Miserables‚ Hugo develops a variety of themes: love‚ redemption‚ good and evil‚ charity‚ suffering‚ societal inequality‚ justice All of them are tied together‚ and every theme has its significance for the novel. However‚ in my opinion‚ the theme of justice is central in the book. It covers the development of every single character and fully reflects the whole point of the book called "Misérables" rejected‚ the bottom of society; moreover‚ justice is also the primary
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physical and spiritual night- are not solved… books like this cannot be useless‚” (Hugo Preface). In his novel‚ Les Miserables‚ Victor Hugo illustrates these problems throughout the plot‚ adding to the public obsession over the book. Most went crazy over the light he shone on the struggles of France in the late 1800s‚ instead of the happy love stories many authors were writing about at that time. Through Les Miserables‚ Hugo ties the degradation of man by poverty‚ the ruin of women by starvation‚ or the
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relationship. However‚ even as he pretends to be Odin’s friend‚ Hugo‚ the coach’s son‚ is intensely jealous of Odin. Odin gets the school’s MVP trophy and he shares it with Michael‚ his "go to man‚" rather than with Hugo; and most crushing to Hugo is that his father‚ Coach Duke Goulding‚ “loves Odin like a son”. Hugo feels that Odin soars above the crowd and that he can literally fly both on and off the basketball court (which is why Hugo compares Odin to a Hawk; and later on in the movie states that
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BUTALID‚ LOUSYL JOY L. PLOT OF LES MISERABLES The convict Jean Valjean is released from a French prison after serving nineteen years for stealing a loaf of bread and for subsequent attempts to escape from prison. When Valjean arrives at the town of Digne‚ no one is willing to give him shelter because he is an ex-convict. Desperate‚ Valjean knocks on the door of M. Myriel‚ the kindly bishop of Digne. Myriel treats Valjean with kindness‚ and Valjean repays the bishop by stealing his silverware. When
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players. The star of the team‚ Odin‚ is favored by Coach Duke which rubs many players‚ especially the Coach’s son and Odin’s best friend‚ Hugo‚ the wrong way. The story follows Odin; his girlfriend‚ Desi; Hugo; Roger‚ Hugo’s pawn in carrying out his elaborate revenge; Emily‚ Desi’s best friends and Hugo’s girlfriend; and Michael‚ another basketball player
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Hunchback of Notre Dame the author‚ Victor Hugo‚ used love as a central theme for his book. He showed that love can manifest itself in three main ways depending upon the person. Esmeralda was in a mode of self- destruction because of her lust for Phoebus. Claude Frollo turned into a man of jealous rage because of his amorousness for Esmeralda‚ and Quasimodo’s passion for Esmeralda crumbled his heart as if it was made of stone‚ because of her death. Hugo used love as a central theme to capture the
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Instant View]: Hugo (2011) Answer the following questions about the film and return to your instructor through private message. 1. How does this film adhere to an order? What are some narrative and stylistic elements that influence this order? The film begins with the situation of a little boy named Hugo that lost his father to a fire in the museum that he worked in and was forced to live with his alcoholic uncle in the Gare Montparnasse railway in Paris‚ France. Hugo learns to work on
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