Victor Hugo

Moments of Happiness Ever since humans wanted more than just the basic needs in life, they have questioned what could a make a person ultimately happy. Aristotle defines happiness as, “prosperity combined with virtue” (774), while Victor Hugo says, “The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved” (774). Overall philosophers for centuries have strived for an answer and differed in opinions. This quest or strive to figure out happiness has puzzled people to such confusion that…

The Chinese Cultural Revolution in the mid 19th century brought a forced wave of reverting to traditional values, resulting in “approximately 12 million” (Allen “Dai”) people to be forced into villages. Because of the repetition aspect of history, many writers have written about concepts and ideas that people who are currently suffering will relate to. When writing about issues, authors tend to allude to other literature works. Relying on other authors to help explain characters’ desires or…

in or to let another man serve his sentence. When adapting a novel into other mediums such as a movie and a musical, there are details about internal conflict that are lost and potentially added. This is the case when adapting Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, the song “Who Am…

CHILDREN IN the United States are routinely taught that Abraham Lincoln of Illinois freed the slaves. But few children learn that Eugene Victor Debs of Indiana devoted his life to ending wage slavery. Ray Ginger’s wonderful biography of Debs—The Bending Cross—first published in 1949, and reprinted by Haymarket Books in 2007—introduces readers to a working-class hero as well as a period of immense struggle from below often treated as a footnote in most U. S. histories. Some of Debs’ contemporary…

Alphabet”, published in 1997. Demeude begins the chapter with a history of alphabetic writing and then of decorated letters, more specifically, the decorated initial. He deals with the picture/writing dichotomy(?) Elkins writes about by quoting Victor Hugo “All letters were once signs and all signs were once pictures” proposing, perhaps that within the family of gramma, Elkin’s neologism, letters are…

Mars in the center of Paris, near the Seine. Moreover, Notre-Dame-de-Paris is the gothic cathedral in Paris, one of the most famous cathedrals in the world, mostly known from the novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame written by the French writer - Victor Hugo. Its name translates as Our Lady and refers to the Virgin Mary. It was built on an island in the Seine, called Cit , on the tracks after two churches that have been built in the ninth century. Construction of its lasted almost 170 years…

struggles, “comments” Judgement, Love is the one which can conquer everything for the one you love. The Mesirable One’s is a story about hardship, love, sacrifice, humanity, broken dreams, discrimination. This musical movie was based on the Novel of Victor Hugo. First was the heroic character of Jean Valjean, he is the Mayor and the owner of the factory where Fantine was working. He never give up on his self after what all happened to him. Another character was Fantine she was a very diligent…

¨Perseverance is the secret of all triumphs¨-Victor Hugo, this quote explains what my story is really about how I persevered through one of the most nerve racking games I have ever played in in my life. This game meant so much to me because I had to make my family proud, there was 100+ college and pro scouts there, and I had to pick up the win for my team. This was one of the best times in my life to test what I have been working for my whole life and to test my perseverance towards the game of…

Bad Guys who are Good, Backstories, and Love Triangles: Things that Make a Good Story What makes a good story? All stories have the same elements; a plot, characters, a climax, a theme, but yet some make a reader want to put the book down after the first chapter and others keep the reader up at night trying to finish it. Certain aspects that are apart of stories will hook the reader and make it a good story. Elements like making a bad guy have the appeal of the good guy in the story, keeping…

‘To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.’ said a historic French writer, Victor Hugo. Harmony means everyone in a nation gets along with each other despite the dissimilarity among them. Back to those days when certain leaders of Malaya only cared about fame and wealth, they failed to create harmony. Due to this, Malaya was colonised by Portuguese, Dutch, British and Japanese. After independence, Malaya has become Malaysia, a well-known country with diverse…