“Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.” (Hugo). Victor Hugo is a famous French author who is recognized for his novels, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Misérables, which have been adapted into movies, plays, and musicals. Victor had many other writings on various topics, but they all seem influenced by his life experiences. Witnessing life in the lower class of France, growing up in a military family, and his animosity for Napoleon III affected Victor Hugo’s writings. First, Victor grew up and witnessed what life was like for the lower and middle class in France. Many of the characters in his novels are poor. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is set in 15th-century Paris and powerfully evokes
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Once beaten and pilloried by an angry mob, he has fallen in love with the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda, who took pity on him during this ordeal. When the scheming archdeacon Frollo, who is also obsessed with Esmeralda, discovers that she favours Captain Phoebus, he stabs the captain, and Esmeralda is accused of the crime. Quasimodo attempts to shelter Esmeralda in the cathedral, but she eventually hangs; in his grief and despair, Quasimodo throws Frollo from the cathedral tower. Later, two skeletons are found in Esmeralda’s tomb—that of a hunchback embracing that of a woman (Lampl). Next, Les Misérables is a long novel about many different people and their lives, but one thing they have in common is they are all poor. The book shows what life is like for people living in the lower class in France along with other dramatic events. Finally, The Man Who Laughs is about a homeless boy named Gwynplaine rescues an infant girl, Dea, during a snowstorm and fifteen years later they fall in love. Dea is condemned to exile by authorities for illegally using a wolf in shows. Gwynplaine travels to find Dea and after learning that she is to be deported, he locates her ship and reunites with
Once beaten and pilloried by an angry mob, he has fallen in love with the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda, who took pity on him during this ordeal. When the scheming archdeacon Frollo, who is also obsessed with Esmeralda, discovers that she favours Captain Phoebus, he stabs the captain, and Esmeralda is accused of the crime. Quasimodo attempts to shelter Esmeralda in the cathedral, but she eventually hangs; in his grief and despair, Quasimodo throws Frollo from the cathedral tower. Later, two skeletons are found in Esmeralda’s tomb—that of a hunchback embracing that of a woman (Lampl). Next, Les Misérables is a long novel about many different people and their lives, but one thing they have in common is they are all poor. The book shows what life is like for people living in the lower class in France along with other dramatic events. Finally, The Man Who Laughs is about a homeless boy named Gwynplaine rescues an infant girl, Dea, during a snowstorm and fifteen years later they fall in love. Dea is condemned to exile by authorities for illegally using a wolf in shows. Gwynplaine travels to find Dea and after learning that she is to be deported, he locates her ship and reunites with