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Les Misérables
In Book 5 of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, after Marius's political views changed, leading his grandfather M. Gillenormand to dismiss him from the household, Marius becomes a very caring,...
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Les Misérables
Jean Valjean was born into a poor family, and after the death of his parents he and his sister had to support one another. When his sister is widowed, Valjean's meager income is not enough to feed...
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Les Miserables is a great book to pull some superb quotations that give readers lessons about life that still apply today. Some of my favorites are as follows: "Monsieur to a convict is a glass of...
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In the tradition of the epic novel, Hugo takes the reader through all the extremes of human emotion: squalor, courage, romance, and grief. The novel takes us through a strife-ridden portion of...
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When Marius was a baby, his grandfather, Monsieur Gillenormand, demanded the child from George Pontmercy, his own son-in-law, under threat of disinheriting the child. Gillenormand, whose daughter...
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Basically, most of the novel addresses social issues, speaking of injustice, class conflict, and the necessity of revolution. One particularly insightful portion of the text comes from Fantine's...
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A Savoyard is the name for a person from the mountainous Savoy region of France. Savoyards were typically migrant workers because farming was not possible in the rocky, mountain soil. Many...
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At the moment the narrator says the sentence in question, Jean Valjean has entered the Bishop of Digne's bedroom with the purpose of stealing his silver, and Jean Valjean may even be prepared to...
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The cinematography in Les Miserables is quite controversial in the world of film and theater. Danny Cohen, the Cinematographer, and Top Hooper, the Director, made some interesting choices in the...
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In not killing Javert, Jean Valjean continues his spiritual transformation. Since his experience with guilt and regret, Valjean had spiritually evolved into a higher form of being in the world....
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There are two reasons why Victor Hugo chose to title Book II of Les Misérables "The Fall." One reason is because it is in this book that we first meet the story's protagonist, Jean Valjean. We...
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I sense two components to this question. The first would be why leave would Jean Valjean leave the protection of the convent life and need to rent the house in the first place. If Valjean does...
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Marius lives with his grandfather, a royalist, who considers the boy's father, George Pontmercy "a leper" because of his having been a heroic soldier, but one who served Napoleon. As a child,...
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I would suggest that it is the love of another, the redemptive feelings of sacrifice, that end up playing a major role in softening Eponine. Hugo constructs a character that straddles the reality...
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Hugo seems to be suggesting that a true form of love is one that enables sacrifice to happen. For Hugo through his characterizations, sacrifice is a transcendent reality of what love is and what...
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This complex novel has a number of different things to say about parental love. Parental love is used to both show the redemptive power of the action of loving and also the moral injustice of...
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The thematic relationship between self sacrifice and love is best shown through the character of Jean Valjean in this novel. He is shown the link between sacrifice and love through the treatment he...
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Monseigneur Bienvenu, whose full name is Monseigneur Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel, also called the Bishop of Digne, is the most important character introduced in Chapter 12 of Book 1. He is...
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Ultimately, Hugo's view of human nature is a contemporary one. Hugo suggests that the change and ability to transform oneself can be a source of great power within the human being. It is this...
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These stories would be great for a comparison study. You might also want to look at the differences and similarities between the two societies. The stories take place in different countries but...
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While I think that Marx himself might not have fully envisioned the power of literature when it is geared towards social contexts, I think that the Marxist school of literary criticism might be a...
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A Tale of Two Cities
The comparison of these two novels can be stretched pretty far. For example, each has an old man severely damaged by long, unjust sentences served in a french prison, though only one is liberated...
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I am contributing my suggestion for a revision of your thesis statement. As answer 1 suggests, I don't believe he actually criticized the lack of education in France. He probably couldn't have...
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I think that Hugo is able to demonstrate the redemption intrinsic to true love through showing how individuals can be saved through it. Hugo is able to demonstrate that love enables individuals...
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Hugo configures a situation for Valjean. In order for him to achieve spiritual redemption, Valjean has to rise above the condition in which he lives. Hugo designs is so that Valjean does not...
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I tend to think that fundamental motif that Hugo is wishing to exploit through the comparisons of both barricades is how France, specifically Paris, was trapped between two intensely warring...
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I had to pare down the original question. Hugo's novel is rooted in the idea of exposing injustice and seeking to bring attention to the fact that it is a condition which must change. I think...
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Candlesticks usually contain candles, which emit light. Light is often associated with spiritual awakening or understanding. For example, in Genesis, God creates light, separates the "light from...
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The note refers first to the irony of Jean Valjean's life. He lived through countless struggles. He was arrested for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his seven starving nephews and nieces and was...
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Victor Hugo's novel demonstrates how one man's life is changed by an act of Christian charity. Valjean was a dangerous ex-convict who stole some silver from the Bishop who had sheltered him for the...
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In Book Three of “Les Miserables,” Fatine and Tholomyes’s exchanges are characterized by a quick dialogue that is humorous. The predominant tone in this section of humor. Hugo employs humor...
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Euphrasie Fauchelevent is actually Cosette's full, legal name. We learn this in Volume 1, Book IV, Chapter I: "One Mother meets Another Mother." In this chapter Fantine has already been...
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There was a gang in Paris from 1830 to 1835, described as a "quartet of bandits," which was actually made up more than four men. The four whose names are mentioned in the book, Claquesous,...
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The Friends of the ABC, are a group of young men, mostly made up of students (though there are others who are self-educated), who meet as a secret society and discuss revolution in the back room of...
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The Friends of the ABC are an informal group of students who meet and discuss revolution in the back of a cafe. As such, roles are not entirely defined and certainly not designated by any set of...
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Jean Valjean is often referred to as a Christ-like character, and there are several examples of how this comparison is drawn. The one difference, to note immediately, is that Jean Valjean has a...
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I think one of the strongest points of social relevance is that Hugo brings out the reality of those who are on the lower end of the social and economic spectrum. The social relevance of Les...
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No matter which version of the story you are reading for class (the full unabridged version, or one of the abridged versions), Les Miserables is a complicated novel which integrates the lives of...
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The main character is Jean Valjean, a convict who is released from prison and, after meeting a priest who helps him to regain his footing in life, vows to dedicate his life to good and becomes a...
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Similes are very abundant in Victor Hugo's writing. A simile is a type of analogy made by comparing two things to show a relationship. Similes always contain the words like or as. One simile can be...
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One lesser known type of figurative language that Victor Hugo sometimes makes use of is called an apostrophe, which is different from the punctuation mark. An apostrophe is a moment when an author...
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For Hugo, the struggles that Fantine has to endure represents the basic need for change in French society. The fact that the class system is so rigid that someone like Fantine who wishes to be an...
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The main theme of this work is that the human condition is universal, and that all humans are capable of compassion and all deserve dignity. The lives of the poor and downtrodden are portrayed in a...
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The first reason why Jean Valjean makes the decision to move out of their rented home on the Rue Plumet is that he had seen M. Thenardier repeatedly and was certain that "Thenardier was prowling in...
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One way in which Hugo successfully portrays Marius as divided between his love for Cosette and his friends' revolutionary ideals is by portraying Marius as first seeing Cosette well before he...
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The original question had to be pared down as eNotes educators are only permitted to answer one question per posting. I think that reasking it in separate questions would be illuminating. I tend...
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Les Misérables
The years following the French Revolution were hardly peaceful. The poor still felt oppressed and many government factions were still fighting for power. Les Misérables is set during the 1800s,...
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The title refers to the basic level of underclass and disenfranchised that exists in France. Hugo's title takes the French word and apply it to the level of society that lacks power and a voice....