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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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
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The Secret of the Sewer One of the works favorite novels of all time is Les Miserable written by Victor Hugo. Les Miserable is filled with secrets and mysteries. Every page you turn‚ Victor Hugo throws a plot change at the reader. When Marius falls in the barricade the reader would never expect Jean Valjean to leap out into the smoke clouds to save Marius life. If Marius would have never found out that Jean Valjean saved his life by dragging him through a sewer‚ Cosette would have never know that
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Javert: A Man with a Mission Many times in life‚ people start to wholeheartedly follow a goal. They focus solely on the goal‚ abandoning all reason and logic. Javert was one of these people. In Victor Hugo’s novel Les Misérables‚ Javert was a police inspector who believed in absolutes. Consequently‚ for him‚ nothing could be both right and wrong; things were either completely good or completely bad. This attitude helped form his goal of life: to follow the law obediently and punish all criminals
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shows that despite such influences enlightened minds can and should rise up and try to create change. Though in “Les Miserables” the destruction of the class system does not come about‚ one thing does change‚ and that is Javert’s view of Valjean. Javert’s change of perspective causes him to question everything he has believed in his whole life. In the 2012 rendition of “Les Miserables” right before Javert plummets to his death‚ he says‚ “I am reaching but I fall. And the stars are black and cold
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Zach Santos 4/29/09 English 4 Cosette Character Sketch The character of Cosette brings a sense of love and romance‚ a hope for a better future‚ and entertainment value to the story of Les Miserables. She is also a developing character. Cosette’s beauty‚ the way she sees herself‚ and her fervor for living are slowly altered through life’s events and experiences. Euphrasie‚ nicknamed Cosette by her mother‚ Fantine‚ grows up in an atmosphere of poverty‚ fear‚ and heartlessness. At this time
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Ideological Manipulation in Translation in a Chinese Context: Su Manshu ’s Translation of Les Misérables by Li Li | | | | | | | | |1. Introduction:
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crippling of children through lack of light—are unsolved; so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;—in other words‚ and with a still wider significance‚ so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth‚ books of the nature of Les Misérables ( The poor ones) cannot fail to be of use. HAUTEVILLE HOUSE‚ 1862.g The word that becoming more and more popular in politics of today‚ the word that is commonly used all over the planet as the crises is spinning out of control‚ is crony
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It takes a man with great courage to sacrifice his own happiness in order to ensure the happiness of others. In the novel‚ Les Miserables‚ Victor Hugo demonstrates the value of sacrifice through one of the prominent characters‚ Jean Valjean‚ an ex-convict on the run. Valjean is in prison for committing a petty crime and after escaping‚ makes a promise to God to become a good man. He makes a promise to Fantine‚ a dying woman‚ that he will rescue her daughter and finds himself dedicating his life to
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Victor Hugo Many critics would go as far as to say that Victor Hugo was and remains the Charles Dickens of France. Hugo is most well known for the writing of the famous Broadway show and book Les Misérables as well as what became the Disney Hit Hunchback of Notre Dame. A brilliant author‚ artist‚ and poet‚ Hugo is most recognized for his writing of government and revolution. But these themes that are common for many authors to write of have actually deemed Hugo quite unique‚ so much so that critics
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