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
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The literature of a country is affected and influenced by how the people of that country live. This paper will prove that The French Revolution greatly influenced 19th Century French Romanticism. First‚ the cultural values of the revolution will be identified. Then‚ the different aspects of Romanticism will be presented. The cultural values of The French Revolution and Romanticism will then be linked. Finally‚ literary examples will be shown to support this connection between the two movements
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Martin Scorsese’s Hugo No director loves movies more than Martin Scorsese. Knowing that he has spent the past four decades declaring his affection for the movies‚ you won’t be considered foolish to presume that good ‘ol Marty has finally started to calm down. But you would presume wrong. His voice has never been louder and clearer. Founded on Scorsese’s lifelong love affair with the movies‚ “Hugo” is a dazzling and magical gem that embraces the very essence of film itself. You can sense an
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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
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industry‚ was one of the many he fired on live TV. I was only five at the time‚ but I was very much aware of all the pain and distress he caused in my whole family. Slowly‚ as I grew up‚ I started paying more and more attention to the strange character Hugo Chavez was. The way of his speech‚
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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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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
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source of aesthetic experience. Based on my research‚ Victor Hugo‚ a French writer known for his novel Les Miserables‚ is also related to romanticism. He associated himself to Romantic Movement while it is still starting off and remained faithful to the Romantic Cause. Does his novel Les Miserables is an example of romanticism in art? What are specific examples that express romantic elements or qualities? Les Miserables means “The miserable ones”. Hugo believed that: "Every man who writes‚ writes a book;
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naturally growing and letting nature guide their course. The period in Victor Horta’s life dedicated to Art Nouveau is but deliberate or intentional‚ however in its chaos it has a sense of grace and fluid beauty. From the time he was born in Ghent on January 6‚ 1861‚ to the time he died at the ripe age of 86‚ on September 9‚ 1947‚ Victor Horta was an artist in every sense of the word. Horta was born to a working class family with Victor-Pierre Horta‚ a shoemaker‚ as his father and Henriette Coppieters
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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
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