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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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
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each day and nothing is done to help these children. As a 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
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Hurricane Hugo‚ one of the strongest hurricanes in South Carolina’s history‚ originated from a wave that moved west off of Africa’s coastline on September 9‚ 1989. Throughout the night and into the morning of September 10‚ Hugo had been classified as a tropical depression. As Hugo moved across the warm waters of the Atlantic it gained more and more strength. It wasn’t until September 14th that Hugo gained enough strength to be classified as a hurricane. On September 15th‚ Hugo turned west-north
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When looking at ‘Hugo’ directed by Martin Scorsese the adaptation from the Novel ‘The Invention of Hugo Cabret’ by Brian Selzink I believe it is a close adaptation. There are differences however in order to accomplish what the director was trying to portray. These differences are what made the film a close adaptation. The way dialogue is portrayed differs in the novel. The film has time and background music to elaborate on details. The novel has to keep the audience engaged. Camera angle also
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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
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entering the prison until his execution through the grounds of his crime and trial. The book is a long reflection of Victor Hugo on the roles and duties of society towards the criminal. "But why this man has he stolen? Why this man has he killed? " Victor Hugo responds: "The people are hungry‚ cold people. Poverty leads them to crime or vice. " According to Victor Hugo‚ the people are sick but the company does not use the right remedies and concludes: "The head man of the people‚ cultivate
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is essential and the company ensures the same through their suppliers by enforcing contracts stating that they will meet all statutory requirements and observe social standards. • Hugo Boss enforces charitable work around the world. Their partnership with UNICEF includes work with “schools for Africa”. • Hugo Boss offers products from women’s wear‚ children’s and men’s wear to accessories for casual to formal wear. • The firm has 5‚700 points of sale worldwide and 287 shops. • Customers
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