Victor Hugo

Positivity and Adversity in the Face of Poverty Can you imagine what it would it be like to experience true poverty, and how it would shape your worldview? In Les Misérables, Victor Hugo addresses such a topic using multiple characters’ experiences of living on the margins of society. Each characters’ outlook on life and attitude towards poverty has a dramatic effect on their experiences: Fantine views poverty with deep resentment, Jean Valjean sees his impoverished experience as something he…

authors compose books that go along with the morals of the audience. Many stories are written today include the typical love story; a girl falls in love with a guy or vice versa. Others are action packed with a climax and a predictable ending. Victor Hugo took a different stance while writing his book Les Miserables. Hugo's idea of action is presented through Jean Valjean, who is held in prison for many years because he stole a loaf of bread. He includes unique love stories unlike the typical…

In the beginning of Les Miserables by Victor Hugo we see a man once a slave in the galleys. A man broken and beaten, Jean Valjean a sliver of the man he was before. He is forced to beg even for a place to lay his head and find a bite to eat. Trudging house to house, looking for shelter here and there. Until, upon a cold, dark night there forms a light in the doorway, the light of the Bishop. The man who invites Jean Valjean into his church, feeds him and gives him a place to stay and, most…

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo displays a great deal of emotions between characters. Love is one emotion in the novel that brought the characters together but tore them apart as well. One example of this love is the triangle between Marius, Cosette, and Eponine. The longing that Eponine has for Marius causes her to risk her life for the one man who would not love her back. Throughout the novel and movie, Eponine shows a deeper love for Marius than Cosette had when she laid eyes on him for the…

Your past always comes back to haunt you. Every human life is shaped either for the better or worse because of the past. In Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, one character in particular is running from his past. By doing so, a bigger mess is made. You can run from your past, but you can't run forever. Jean Valjean spent 19 years in captivity for stealing a loaf of bread. After he is released, he has a self discovery. He decides to reinvent himself; to leave his past behind to start fresh. But it is…

self-centered and does not try to understand the importance of family. Luc takes no responsibility for his son Hugo. Hugo pretends to faint at school as a prank and Luc blames the problem…

The true nature of humans has always been a mystery to mankind. Most would like to believe that men are inherently good, and that we will take the higher road if given the option. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies (LoF) follows a group of young schoolboys left alone on an island to show that when man is stripped bare, only uncontrollable savagery remains. Also, no form of government can control the way men truly are. Philosopher Thomas Hobbes shows a similar theory about the nature of mankind…

to the U.S. Supreme Court. Author and professor of Law at Harvard, writer Noah Feldman, focuses on the Supreme Court of FDR in his book Scorpions, particularly the stories of the four most influential and revolutionary justices: Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and Robert Jackson. Feldman seeks to analyze what influenced each justices’ decisions in the court, and follows their evolution on the bench. Overall, Feldman concludes that while these men differed in their opinions,…

Robert Jackson was a small town New Yorker who rose to the status of a distinguished lawyer, and later became one of the greatest Solicitor Generals. Narrowly missing the appointment of Chief Justice, Jackson was the final associate justice appointed by President Roosevelt. Jackson welcomed the role of a Supreme Court Justice, and developed a practical view of the constitution. Jackson’s main influence to the court came from the Nuremburg trials, in which he was the chief United States…

Scientist And Mathematicians Of The 1800s The purpose of this articulated essay is to inform the reader about two beings in the 19th century who contributed to the fields of mathematics and scientifics. so, may this article discuss to you the purpose of these two men and the ways they changed the world, through thick and thin , hard and easy, and how they showed the world their ill-minded ideas and turned them into objects that shaped it and the people who inhabit it. so, may this essay please…