Les Misérables (Reaction Paper) Les Misérables (the musical) in my opinion is one of the best musical renditions in the world. Whether it’d be in the theatre or on the big screen‚ Les Misérables‚ never cease to deliver such a heartfelt act. A few weeks ago‚ I was given the chance to watch the recent Les Misérables musical in the movies (starring Hugh Jackman‚ Anne Hathaway‚ Russell Crowe‚ and Amanda Seyfried) and I enjoyed it. Im a person who loves music. I most definitely love musicals! The
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ourselves but the lives of the people around us. Showing mercy does not just involve compassion towards others‚ but also involves showing forgiveness. Forgiveness is a key part of giving second chances‚ and plays a major part in Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables. In Les Miserables‚ the ex-convict Jean Valjean is released from prison and spends one of his first nights of freedom in the house of a kind bishop. When leaving‚ Jean Valjean steals some of the bishop’s silverware and is later on captured and taken
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Les Misérables Questions pgs. 295 – 408. St. Denis and the Idyl of the Rue Plumet 1. What becomes of Marius’ all-consuming passion on pg. 296? It leads from hope to hopelessness to despair. 1. Who is able to get out of his handcuffs and escape after his capture at Gorbeau House? Claquesous 1. Whom does Marius visit occasionally? Monsieur Mabeuf 1. Who waters Mabeuf’s garden and why is she there? Eponine; to find out where Marius lived 1. Describe the paradox of Eponine’s appearance on pgs
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Les Demoiselles d’Avignon was created during the 20th century and was a great contributor to the Cubist period. During the cubist period artists such as Picasso and Georges Braque created art that took an angular form. Characteristics of cubism would be flat‚ angular‚ fragmentation‚ nontraditional‚ and geometric. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon perfectly represents the cubist period because the forms the prostitutes portrayed in the painting are depicted with sharp angles as well as given geometric
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Painted in 1907‚ Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles D’Vignon was considered the first Cubist painting during a time where new‚ modern techniques were not yet appreciated in the arts world (Chave‚ 1994). Though recognized‚ the painting was still seen as mad. Picasso violated tradition art conventions through “devitalization of the human form‚ disuse of illusionistic space and deployment of a mixture of visual idioms” (Steefel‚ 1992‚ p.115). Every violation comes together to make a new‚ modern form of
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Les Misérables by Victor Hugo demonstrates a very important concept about how people change. Several examples exist of individuals who thought a certain way‚ but were shown that not all is as they thought. The novel demonstrations that everyone thinks they’re right‚ but when proven wrong‚ it greatly impacts their lives and beliefs. One person who thought he could never change was the novel’s protagonist Jean Valjean. His personality vastly changed after the bishop helped him realize he didn’t
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“Marius” 1. Characterize M. Gillenormand. Why does Robinson spend so much time describing his physical appearance? How is this symbolic of his character and the time period? M. Gillenormand seems very strongly conservative and anti-revolutionist. He seems to be one of the people who would have participated in the self-strengthening movement in China. His strong beliefs and opinions seem to consume him and make him seem a bit vain and egoistic. He ends up cutting ties with his son‚ son-in-law
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1782‚ french writer Choderlos de Laclos writes ’Les Liaisons Dangereuses’ (Dangerous Liaisons)‚ which will become his most famous work‚ though it was a first considered as an attack against the nobles. In this epistolary novel‚ considered as the best of its genre‚ the story goes that way: Cecile‚ who has just left the convent‚ is betrothed to the Comte de Gercourt‚ former lover of the Marquise de Merteuil. Being angry with the Comte de Gercourt who abandoned her‚ to avenge herself‚ the Marquise de
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American lawyer and political leader‚ Robert Green Ingersoll‚ once said that “kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.” In book one‚ “Fantine‚” in the novel Les Miserables‚ author Victor Hugo uses the helpless and beast-like character of Jean Valjean to demonstrate that when an individual‚ at his lowest point of being‚ is exposed to kindness‚ he may rise up and become virtuous‚ so that he may help others achieve this virtue in return. A helpless individual in the midst of a radically unequal
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Who to blame? Fantine is like a little girl who is buying a car‚ where the car company charges high interest‚ and she ends up paying an enormous sum. In Victor Hugo’s novel Les Misérables‚ both society and Fantine are to blame for her decline‚ though society is much more at at fault than she. Firstly‚ Fantine is partially to blame since she is inexperienced and naive. Likewise‚ society is at fault because the population dehumanizes people living in poverty. Moreover‚ society is responsible because
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