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Victor Hugo? Victor Hugo (l802-1885) is an outstanding bourgeois democratic writer in the history of French literature, the leader of the French Romantic literary movement in the early 19th century, and one of the greatest writers in the history of French literature. His life spanned almost the entire 19th century, and his literary career lasted for 60 years. Throughout his life, the dominant ideas of his activities and creations were humanitarianism, opposition to violence, and love as a means of combating "evil", and his creative power was everlasting, and his works included 26 volumes of poetry, 20 volumes of novels, 12 volumes of plays, and 21 volumes of philosophical writings, totaling as many as 79 volumes. His works include 26 volumes of poetry, 20 volumes of novels, 12 volumes of plays, and 21 volumes of philosophical treatises, totaling 79 volumes, which have added a very brilliant cultural heritage to French literature and the treasury of human culture. His Romantic novels are wonderful, moving, powerful, and have a permanent charm for readers. His representative works include Notre Dame de Paris, Les Misérables, 93 Years and other novels.
Hugo experienced almost all the major events in France in the 19th century. He grew up admiring the early French Romantic writer Chateaubriand. 1827 published the rhymed play "Cromwell" and "Preface" (1827), "Preface" is known as the manifesto of the French Romantic theater movement, is Hugo's extremely important literary treatise. 1830 he wrote the first Romanticism according to the theory of the preface. In 1830, he wrote the first Romantic play based on the theories in the preface, Elnani, and its performance marked the victory of Romanticism over Classicism.
Notre Dame de Paris (1831) was Hugo's first major romantic novel. It is written in a bizarre and contrasting way, a story that takes place in the 15th century France: Claude, the vice-bishop of Notre Dame de Paris, is a moralistic and serpentine man, who first loves and then hates, and persecutes the gypsy girl Esmeralda. Quasimodo, an ugly, kind-hearted bell-ringer, sacrifices his life to save her. The novel exposes the hypocrisy of religion, proclaims the bankruptcy of asceticism, and celebrates the kindness, fraternity, and self-sacrifice of the lower-class working people, reflecting Hugo's humanitarian thought.
Les Miserables best represents Hugo's ideological and artistic style, and he demonstrates the cruel reality of capitalist society, which enslaves the working people and forces them to become prostitutes, with his excellent artistic charm. However, the writer is convinced that only moral probation is the cure for social disasters. Although the novel is not lacking in realism, it is still a masterpiece of romanticism in terms of characterization, depiction of the environment, and the use of symbols and contrasts.
Notre Dame de Paris and Les Misérables have been made into movies many times, which have been widely circulated in the world and become classics.
Full-length novels: Notre Dame de Paris, Les Misérables
Plays: Cromwell and Prologue, Elneny
Birth
Hugo was born in 1802 in Besan?on, in the Doubs department of eastern France, which is close to Switzerland. His grandfather was a carpenter, and his father was an officer in the army of the **** and State, having been awarded the rank of general by Napoleon's brother, King Joseph of Spain? Bonaparte, and was a close and important advisor to that king.
Hugo talented, 10 years old back to school in Paris, graduated from secondary school into the law school, but his interest lies in writing, 15 years old in the French Academy of poetry competition will win the prize, 17 years old in the "hundred flowers poetry contest" won first place, 20 years old published a collection of poems "Ode to the Poetry", because of the restoration of Bourbon praise, won the Louis XVIII reward, and later wrote a lot of heterogeneous poetry. At the age of 20, he published a collection of poems, Ode to the Bourbons, which was rewarded by Louis XVIII for his praise of the restoration of the Bourbon dynasty. Later, he became disillusioned with both the Bourbons and the July dynasty, and became a ****harmonist. He also wrote many poetic dramas and plays. He also wrote many verse plays and plays. He wrote a large number of novels with distinctive features and carried out his ideas
In 1827, Hugo published the play Cromwell and its preface. Although the play was not performed, the preface is considered the manifesto of French Romanticism, and became an epoch-making document in the history of literature. It played a great role in promoting the development of French Romantic literature.
In 1830, Hugo's play Ernani was performed at the Grand Théatre de la Cour de France, which had a great impact and established the dominant position of Romanticism in the French literary scene.
"Ouenani" is written in the 16th century Spain, a nobleman born of the bandit Ouenani rebel against the king's story, Hugo praised the bandit's chivalry and nobility, showing a strong anti-feudal tendency.
In July 1830, France had a "July Revolution", the feudal restoration dynasty was overthrown. Hugo enthusiastically praised the revolution, glorified those revolutionaries, and wrote poems to mourn the heroes who died in the street battles.
Notre Dame de Paris, published in 1831, is Hugo's most romantic novel. The plot of the novel is twisted, tense, vivid, unpredictable, dramatic and legendary, showing Hugo's strong hatred of the feudal government and the church, but also reflecting his deep sympathy for the lower class people.
After the July Revolution, France established a great bourgeoisie led by the financier Louis Philippe. After the July Revolution, France established the "July Dynasty" ruled by the big bourgeoisie led by the financier Louis Philippe. The July dynasty continued to Hugo, Hugo was elected to the French Baccalaureate in 1841, and in 1845, Louis Philippe made him a member of the French Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1845, Louis Philippe made him the Secretary of the French Nobility and a member of the House of Peers. Hugo's passion for struggle in his writing diminished, and in 1843 he wrote a mystical play, The Garrison Officer, which was a failure when it was performed and applauded by the audience. Hugo was silent about this and did not write for almost 10 years.
In June 1848, the people of Paris held a revolution, overthrew the July dynasty, and established the **** and the country. At first Hugo did not understand the revolution, but when the big bourgeoisie conspired to eliminate the **** and the State, Hugo became a staunch **** andist. in December 1851, Louis? Bonaparte staged a coup d'état and Hugo took part in the uprising against the coup organized by the ****heists. After Louis Bonaparte came to power, he established a new government. Louis Bonaparte came to power and established the Second French Empire. He practiced a policy of terror and ruthlessly suppressed those who resisted. Hugo was also persecuted and had to go into exile.
During the period of exile, Hugo always insisted on the struggle against Napoleon III, he wrote political satirical pamphlets and political satirical poems, attacked the dictatorship of Napoleon III. During this period, he published long novels Les Misérables, The Sea Laborer and The Laughing Man.
In 1870, the Franco-Prussian War broke out, and after the French defeat at Sedan, the Prussian army pushed into Paris. At this critical moment of national crisis, Hugo returned to his homeland after 19 years of exile. He gave speeches everywhere, calling on the French people to rise up against the German invaders and to defend their motherland. He also used his writings and recitation of poetry to get paid to buy 2 cannons, showing the noble patriotic spirit.
When the Paris Commune rose, Hugo did not understand the revolution. But when the failure of the Commune, the reactionary government frantically suppressed the members of the Commune, Hugo and angrily condemned the reactionaries of the beast, he called for amnesty for all the members of the Commune, and announced in the newspaper that his own home in the Belgian capital of Brussels, Belgium, to provide members of the community in exile as a refuge. In response, his home was attacked by a reactionary mob, and he himself narrowly escaped death, but he still stood his ground.
In 1885, Hugo died. The people of France gave the great poet a state funeral. His body was buried in the Pantheon, which is dedicated to great men.
The first Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded in 1901, but Hugo died in 1885, so in spite of his high literary achievements, he was not awarded the Nobel.
Les Miserables
Les Miserables is Hugo's masterpiece. The plot of the novel is roughly like this: Jean Valjean, a poor laborer of peasant origin, once saw his sister's children crying with hunger, so he went to steal bread, but unfortunately he was caught and sentenced to five years' imprisonment. He escaped from prison several times, and when he was caught, he was sentenced to an additional ****14 years in prison, resulting in 19 years in prison for a loaf of bread. After he was released from prison, Jean Valjean was looked down upon everywhere, had no job, no food, and vowed to take revenge on society. At this time, a bishop named Miriam touched him, and he resolved to do good deeds and be a good man.
Under the name of Madeleine, he set up a factory in a city and became rich. He provided employment for the poor, fed them, gave them houses, and he was so helpful in every way that he was elected mayor by the citizens. At this time, there came to the city a girl named Mundine, who was originally from the countryside, came to the city to work as a laborer, and was lured into giving birth to a daughter. She put her daughter Cosette in the house of an innkeeper, who was a villain, and took advantage of the opportunity to blackmail her, and Mantin was forced to sell her beautiful hair, her beautiful teeth, and sold herself as a prostitute, and finally became so poor that she was sick and dying, and Jean Valjean heard of this and immediately went to take care of her, promising to bring up her daughter Cosette after her death. At this time, the police Javert is hunting for Valjean, a hard laborer who has been missing for many years, in the city of Madeleine, he captures a poor worker, believing him to be Valjean, and prepares to send him to prison, in order to save this innocent worker, Valjean steps forward and voluntarily admits his identity. He falls back into the hands of the police and on his way to prison, he manages to escape.
Valjean immediately finds Cosette and takes her into hiding in a secluded convent. As the years pass, Cosette grows into a beautiful young woman who falls in love with Marius, a **** and party man. 1832 sees the outbreak of a **** and party-led uprising in Paris, which is bloodily suppressed by the July dynasty, and when Marius is gravely wounded, Jean Valjean risks his life to get him out through the sewers. At this point, Javert blends into the ranks of the insurgents to reconnoiter, is captured and sentenced to death, and it is up to Valjean to carry out the order to shoot Javert, but Valjean sets Javert free. Javert, ashamed before the noble character of Valjean, throws himself into the river.
Cosette and Marius are married and the young people are very happy. Valjean lives a lonely life alone and finally he dies in Cosette's arms.
Les Misérables exposes the sharp contradictions of capitalist society and the disparity between rich and poor, depicts the painful fate of the lower class people, and puts forward the three urgent problems of the society at that time: "Poverty makes the men downtrodden, hunger corrupts the women, and darkness makes the children frail," fiercely attacking the hypocrisy of the bourgeoisie law. It comprehensively reflects the social and political life of France in the first half of the 19th century. Therefore, the novel was welcomed by people all over the world. In the 20th century, it was adapted into a movie many times, which also attracted countless audiences.
Notre Dame de Paris
On January 6, 1432, the people of Paris were immersed in the revelry of April Fool's Day. The election of the "King of Fools" was taking place in the court hall. The lucky King of Fools was brought out triumphantly, and the surprise and appreciation immediately reached its highest point. He had a tetrahedral nose, a horseshoe-shaped mouth, one eye, a hunchback, a limp, his body was about the same height as it was wide, the lower part was square, and his legs, when viewed from the front, looked as if they were two scythes, with the handles of the scythes joined to the hilts of the knives. In the midst of all his deformities there was an unquestionable firmness, seriousness, and bravery, and this was the king of fools that the people were about to offer up, the bell-ringer of Notre Dame de Paris, Quasimodo. The people carried him on their shoulders and paraded him through the streets.
Suddenly a young man cried out, "Esmeralda is coming! Esmeralda is in the square!" The name had a magical effect, and all the people flocked to Graybed Square. In the square, Esméharda, a gypsy girl who made her living by selling her art, was dancing on a Persian carpet that had been casually spread at her feet. She was light, airy, and happy. There were many people in that circle, hundreds of spectators. In the midst of the maiden's enthusiastic whirling, Gangovar, who was a skeptical philosopher and a satirical poet, was so mesmerized by the splendid sight that he could not at once see with certainty whether the wench was a human being, a fairy, or an angel. All the onlookers were transfixed, with their mouths wide open, except a grave, calm, and sombre middle-aged face which paid more attention to the dancing woman than the others, and from time to time uttered a few curses on its lips; he was Crode, the vicar-general of Notre-Dame de Paris? Vorono. In the Dutch tower at the corner of the square, the abbess Gündil, who had been robbed of her own daughter by the gypsies fifteen years before, was beseeching her to go away in a pious, abhorrent voice. Esméharda is appalled and disturbed by the curse of the vice-priest and the friaress.
In the evening, Esmerharda leaves the festival square with her beloved little goat. The curious Gangowar followed the fairy-like girl. When they reached an alley near the square, Vorono and Gazimodo suddenly leapt out and tried to take Esméharda by force. The young girl cried out for help, Gangowa scared to move. At the moment of crisis, the royal guards passed by, and the chief of the guards, Fabi, saved the maiden. Instructed Gazimodo to rob people Vorono while the guards and Gazimodo fight when slipped away, Gazimodo was captured by the guards.
Esmeralda thanked the captain of the guard, Fabi, and returned late at night to the Beggar's Kingdom area. It is a large square inhabited by the lower classes of Paris, French, Spanish, Italian, German, of different religions, beggars by day, thieves by night. It was a fantastic new world, a realm of hellish poetry. Esmeralda lived here, and her name had great magic among them. When she returned, the beggars of both sexes were gently arrayed, and their fierce faces were cheered by the sight of her. That night, Gangowar strayed into the kingdom of beggars and was condemned to death according to the laws of the beggar kingdom. In order to save his life, Esméharda agreed to be his "wife" according to the rules of the Kingdom of Beggars, and she provided him with food and lodging, but did not allow him to get close to her.
The next day, Quasimodo was sentenced to death on the gallows in the Plaza de Grebes, where the crowd of onlookers played and abused the ugly man. He saw Vorono in the crowd and was delighted, but his father, who had adopted him, scrambled to avoid his gaze. In accordance with the rules of punishment, Quasimodo was tied to the wheel of the gallows and received a heavy whipping. Thirsty, he roared angrily, "Give me water!" Amidst the impassive laughter of the people, Esmeralda stepped forward and tenderly brought the water gourd in her arms to the prisoner's parched mouth. Then the people saw a great tear roll out of the ever-dry eyes of Gazimodo, and it was perhaps the first tear he had ever shed. It was undoubtedly a moving sight to see such a beautiful, pure, charming, and delicate maiden thus dropping her pity on a man so pitiful, yet unsightly and vicious, and on the gallows the sight was even more remarkable. The crowd on the platform was moved to loud acclamations. Only the friaress in the Dutch tower cursed in a loud voice: "Abominable gypsy daughters! Abominable! Abominable!"
After his punishment, Quasimodo remained back at Notre Dame as a bell-ringer. Weeks passed, and Esmeralda danced in the Piazza de la Bathevi, and Quasimodo leaned against the bell tower of Notre Dame to admire her dance, a tender, lovely look in his rugged eyes. Garcimodo was an abandoned orphan, and sixteen years ago Vorono had adopted him out of a feeling of pity and compassion. From then on he regarded the vice-priest as his only relative, was obedient to him, and grew up to be the bell-ringer of Notre Dame. Mocked by the world because of his deformity, he was filled with hatred for mankind. Esmeralda's action of repaying his grudge with kindness touched him, and from then on, he had infinite gratitude and pure affection for her. Vorono also in the north tower of the church with eyes looking for the girl dancing in the square, since he failed to rob Esméharda roadblock, has not given up the desire to possess her. Esméharda appeared, as usual, at the end of the street. Her nominal husband, Gangowar, follows her every day and helps her collect the coins she sells. The captain of the guards, Fabi, impresses Esmehalda, not only as her savior, but also as the idol of her love and worship. Fabi came from a noble family; he was young, handsome, and beautiful. He is engaged to his cousin and frequents his aunt's house, where he is a guest of honor.
By chance, Esméharda was dancing in the street and was recognized by Fabi, who was a guest at his aunt's house, and he greeted her and asked her to perform at her house. Esmeralda arrives at Aunt Fabi's house with her cute little goat. One of the ladies at the aunt's house took advantage of Esméharda's inattention while she was speaking with Fabi to lure the little goat to a corner of the house with candy. Curious, she unhooked the pouch from the goat's neck, opened it, and dumped its contents on the floor. It was an alphabet, with each letter inserted into a small piece of boxwood. The sheep skillfully plucked at the letters with his hoof, and in a moment they were arranged into a word, which, to the astonishment of the people, was the name of a man, Fabi. This trick of the sheep's was the result of two months of Esmeralda's attentive coaching; and Esmeralda blushed when she saw the foolishness of what the sheep had done. All this was seen in full view by Fabi, the old womanizer, who had played with women, and who knew the secret of the beautiful gypsy girl's heart. On seeing Esmeralda out, he asked her to rendezvous at the inn for the evening. This sweet fruit from heaven made Fabi forget himself, and he told Vorono's brother the secret of his rendezvous with the girl. Vorono soon learns of the news, and seeing that the girl he covets is about to fall into the arms of another man, he arrives at the inn in disguise, burning with desire. Just as Fabi was about to make merry with Esmeralda in his arms, Vorono leaped out of the room, drew his dagger, and plunged it into Fabi's breast. Vorono escapes. News of the gypsy girl's assassination of the captain of the guard quickly spread throughout the city. Esmeralda was arrested. She succumbed and was sentenced by the court to be hanged.
Esméharda was locked up in a dark dungeon, like a poor fly, so weak that she could not move even the smallest masonry. One night Vorono, in his black surcoat, came secretly to the dungeon, and, expressing his love and inner pain to Esmerharda in no uncertain terms, suggested taking her with him to escape. The maiden refused him with bitter curses.
The next day at the execution, Esméharda was taken to the Bakhvi Square to pray before her death. Fabi, healed from his wounds, sits on the upper floor of his aunt's house and watches the young girl indifferently, not daring to come forward to prove her innocence. At that moment, Quasimodo rushed from the church, waved his hand over the executioners, lifted the maiden high on his shoulders, leaped into the church, and called out in a terrible voice, "Holy ground!" Faced with this feat, a cheer erupted from the crowd, who were moved by the passion of Quasimodo. There was indeed beauty in this moment for Quasimodo. This orphan, this found child, who felt majestic and robust, he looked face to face with the crowds who had rejected him and thrust himself so powerfully into their midst that he gained victory from them. What a moving thing this is: a man so ugly protecting a maiden so unfortunate, Quasimodo saving a condemned prisoner, two extremely unfortunate people so saving and helping each other!
Quasimodo protects Esmeralda, and when Vorono sneaks into Esmeralda's house late at night, he is beaten by Quasimodo. Learning that the maiden loves Fabi, Quasimodo hides all his pain and seeks out the captain of the guard for her, begging him to meet the maiden. The heartless Fabi, however, does not care and gallops away. Quasimodo, who would rather be ill-treated by Esmejarda than see her in pain, said to her; "We have some very high bell-towers yonder, from which a man, if he fell, would fall to his death before he could reach the ground; and if thou wilt that I should fall there, thou shalt not even have to speak a word, but a wink of the eye will suffice."
Soon after, the Diet again sentenced Esmeralda to death, and the great masses of the Beggar's Kingdom heard of it with such righteous indignation that they attacked Notre Dame late at night, led by the Beggar King, Croban, to rescue their sister. The deaf Quasimodo, not knowing the truth, fought valiantly against the attacking populace in the church. Vorono takes advantage of the confusion to infiltrate the church with Gangovar and trick Esmeralda into escaping under the guise of helping with the escape. The young girl falls into Vorono's clutches once again, and she grabs Ganguois by the sleeve to plead for his help, but Ganguois is only too busy petting her goats; he is not madly in love with the gypsy girl, but almost more in love with her goats.
King Louis XI, holed up in the prison of Batouti, thought that the riot of the commoners was an attack on the deacons of the court, and secretly gloated. When he realized that the real purpose of the riot was to oppose the king, he ordered the suppression of the riot: "Kill all the civilians! Hang the witches!" As a result, the beggar's kingdom was attacked from the back, and bodies were strewn everywhere in front of Notre Dame, and blood flowed in rivers.
The king's army was in pursuit of Esmeralda. On the run, Gangovar leaves Esmerhalda. The maiden was dragged by Gangowa's friend, the masked man (actually Vorono), dressed in black, to the gallows in the Plaza de Grabe, where Vorono tore off his scarf, revealing his original form, and, pointing to the gallows, which had been erected by the stone, once again coerced Esméharda, saying, "Choose between it and me." Esméharda would not comply to the death, and would publish his sins. Vorono said shamelessly, "People won't believe your words-that would only add a charge of slander to a sin." He gave the maiden into the custody of the acolyte of the Dutch tower, and went himself to call the military police who were searching for her. At the sight of Esmeharda before her, the acolyte woman could not help thinking of her own lost daughter. When both of them took out a small but delicate embroidered shoe that each of them had kept, the friaress realized that Esméharda was her own daughter who had been lost 15 years ago. While the mother and daughter were recognizing each other and were in a state of grief and joy, the military police called by Vorono arrived. Esméharda is dragged from the friar's arms by the executioner for calling out to Fabi, who is searching for her in the present Jan, exposing her hidden target. The mother fought to save her daughter, and the executioner pushed her under the gallows, where she died on her head.
The sun rose, and the roofs of all the buildings in the city of Paris were scarlet as if they were on fire at the same time. Esmejarda, dressed in white, waved sternly in the air with a knot around her neck. Vorono stretched his neck above Notre Dame to scrutinize the picture of the spider catching the fly, and a devilish grin, a grin that would not have been human, burst out on his face. The grief-stricken Quasimodo saw the hanged maiden on one side and the smile on the other, and he lunged at the vicar-general, and in his rage pushed him down from the top floor of the church. Vorono fell to the street stones like a falling tile, and was left without a human form.
Two years later, two conjoined corpses were found in the hiding-place of the cellars of Montefoggion, one of them a deformed male body, without a single break in his collar-bones, so that it was evident that he had not been hanged, but had come to his death on his own. The bones turned to dust as people separated him from the female corpse he was holding.
Fate, fate, fate!
In 1830, at the age of 28, Victor Hugo began writing Notre Dame de Paris, one of his "trilogy of destinies" (the others being Les Misérables (known as "The Fate of the Law") and Les Travailleurs de la Mer ("The Fate of Things")). The other two are Les Miserables (known as "The Fate of the Law") and The Laborer at Sea ("The Fate of Things"), such a magnificent masterpiece was finished in just over 150 days the following year, which is worthy of the world's greatest talent! We can study the ancient Greek tragedy, Hugo's predecessors of the ancients said that the fate of the big difference into three categories, one is the accidental misfortune, the second is the human self-split and its unfortunate resolution, the third is the human and the social or natural irreconcilable conflict between. Certainly, an important aspect of the fate narrated in Notre Dame de Paris is the obscenity and apostasy of Claude, the cleric, who does not believe in the teachings of the Catholic Church, but prefers to believe in the alchemy and evil arts, and who is dominated by lust, which finally leads to the demise of himself as well as of all the people whom he loves and those whom he doesn't love--this is one of the tragedies. And the bell ringer, Quasimodo, due to his birth deformity, especially his blindness and deafness, deterred the righteous people who attempted to rescue Esmeralda from attacking Notre Dame in the forecourt square, and was finally attacked by him and the king's army sent to capture the gypsy girl, representing the force of justice that was rarely seen in the dark Middle Ages - the untouchables of those lower classes were all annihilated, which is another tragedy. annihilated, which is yet another tragedy. Innocent dancing girl is not only one among all the poor people who have been brutalized by the dark forces of ignorance that have ruled Europe for a thousand years, but also their beautiful image, no matter how she pleads her case, no matter how people try to help out out of righteous indignation, she still can't escape from being hanged - this is the third tragedy. All of these are the tragic results of the three major opportunities or motives of the above mentioned tragic fate working together. Notre Dame de Paris is a touching portrayal of this tragic fate, which was inescapable for almost all the common people in those dark times. King Louis XI, who was hidden behind a dark curtain, was the culprit of the bloody massacre that Hugo showed to the public! The innocent people who were brutalized by the power of darkness he represented were the real protagonists of this tragedy. However, the great humanist Hugo still asks us to believe that "to live is to look forward with head held high", we throw tears, but at the same time, like Hugo, "I opened my eyes and saw the brilliant morning star", yes, should always be optimistic: Yes, we should always be optimistic: "Believe in day, believe in light, believe in joy". Hugo sang the verses that inspire people to resist oppression and break through the darkness of the night, and marched forward, spreading his humanitarian appeal to mankind, and from the age of 30 into the French and even the whole of Europe, the Romanticism of the creation of a higher and more prevalent period.
Notre Dame de Paris, majestic, with its immortal wisdom, in its existence so far more than 800 years, silently watching the rolling river, the multitude of beings, was once how many human tragedy, human comedy witness! In Hugo's novel, it seems to have the breath of life, sheltering Esmeralda, confirming Claude's crime, lamenting the heroic sacrifice of all the heroes who try to fight the dark rule, praising the chivalrous behavior of Casimodo, who is an "insignificant speck of dust", trampling all the jackals, tigers, and leopards, and all the executioners under his feet; and it even becomes one with Casimodo. It even becomes one with Quasimodo, both as the master of the soul of this deformed man and as the support of his monstrous body. It comes to life under Hugo's skillful pen, and adds to the glory of the great writer with the symphony of destinies it inscribes, describes, and majestically performs. The beautiful Notre Dame de Paris is a gem of Gothic architecture. Hugo as early as his teenage years on the art of architecture - especially the Gothic architectural art has a strong interest, and youth, he carried out at least three years of preparation, familiar with the medieval French society, especially repeatedly into the recesses and nooks and crannies of Notre Dame in person, while widely read the relevant information, mastered the French proud of the building all the mysteries, in order to facilitate the 18th century. In July, 1830, he began to write the manuscript. He pretended to find, in a dark corner of one of the two lofty bell towers, this Greek word hand-carved on the wall by a medieval figure: destiny! The author was y moved by the fatalistic allegory of the omnipresence of this force of darkness, the Devil, which governs the destiny of mankind and, in fact, of all the people of that age of ignorance. Indeed, the book "Notre Dame de Paris" was written to narrate the word "fate". The great humanist Hugo sought the true meaning of fate. Whether it is Claude or Quasimodo, they are ultimately social people, their inner division, conflict, reflecting their time between theocracy and human rights, ignorance and knowledge, the huge heavy dark system and the struggle of the fragile individual between the division, conflict, and finally led to the tragedy of the tragedy of the death of all the characters of the tragic end. The destiny we see in this masterpiece is to exert its sweeping power in a particular setting, the medieval capital of France, in the midst of a society where ignorance, superstition, and barbarism reigned supreme. Notre Dame de Paris, as a masterpiece of Romanticism, is precisely because the author strives to conform to the natural original, portraying the real life of the medieval French society, with excellent techniques and romantic forms, based on the development of moving plots, cohesion, and refinement in this masterpiece to present their vivid appearance and rich connotation, and won another victory of Romanticism to break the rigid shackles of Classicalism after the Ainonyi. It is an angry and tragic work of destiny. It is a symphony of angry and tragic destiny!
Quotations
The most blessed thing in life is to be sure that someone loves you, that someone loves you for what you are, or, to be more precise, that someone loves you without asking how you are. -- Les Misérables
The widest thing in the world is the ocean; wider than the ocean is the sky; wider than the sky is the human heart.
The future will belong to two kinds of men: men of thought and men of labor, which are, in fact, one kind of man, for thought is also labor.
On top of an absolutely correct revolution there is an absolutely correct humanism.
Man's intelligence holds three keys, one unlocking numbers, one unlocking letters, and one unlocking notes. Knowledge, thought, and fantasy are in them.
What the world lacks is perseverance, not stamina.
Boldness is the price paid for making progress.
It should be believed that one is strong in life.
The avenue of art is thorny, and that's a good thing; regular people shy away from it, with the exception of the strong-willed.
Whoever wastes their time, their youth will fade, and life will abandon them.
Laughter is like the sunshine that drives away the winter from people's faces.
It is better to refuse than to agree.
It is the human heart that releases infinite light, and it is the human heart that creates infinite darkness.
Books are the tools of the soul.
People can only survive with material things; people can only live with ideals.
Footsteps can not reach the place, vision can reach; vision can not reach the place, the spirit can fly to.
One more school, one less prison.
Life is to face the smile.
Man has two ears, one to hear the voice of God and one to hear the voice of the devil.
I would rather open my future by my own strength than to seek the favor of the powerful.
The first hunger of mankind is ignorance.
If you do not recognize pain, you are not a good man.
The first hunger of mankind is ignorance.