Look at Hugo’s novel, this is the third, Notre Dame de Paris – The Smiling Face – The Miserable World
My favorite is The Smiling Face, but the most shocking is The Miserable World
Some people say what literature is, beauty and love. In the tragic world, there are nearly one million words, and there are several lines that can be touched.
The first is Jean Valjean’s life. He is a farmer, a thief, a convict, a brother of Bishop Bienvenu, the mayor of Madeleine, the father of Cosette, a helper of the monastery, and a ghost in the barricade. He used to lift the horse cart that was to be pressed on Father Fauchelevent’s head with infinite strength, and broke the shackles on his feet with two blows. He could not even pick up his pen at the end of his life because he had stolen a loaf of bread, He spent most of his life in anonymity. But when Javert was dead and no one knew his origin, he said to Maristan, “In the past, I stole a piece of bread for life. Today, I don’t want to steal a name for life.” Even though he knew that the consequence of such recognition was that Cosette would never be seen again. Nobility is his epitaph. Only such people can afford to play the leading role in this book.
Then there are the Thenardiers and their wives. They are really gods. The men are bitter, thin and cruel, and the women are rude and stupid. They are two clowns in the musical and two bullies in the original. Fantine lodged Cosette in his house and gave her a lot of money, but Cosette had a miserable life. She was the lifeblood and cash cow of the free maid and the Thenardier family. Fantine asked Fantine for money while she was there, Fantine asked Jean Valjean for money when she was dead, Jean Valjean asked Marius for money when she was gone, and even saved Marius’ father accidentally because she turned over the wallets of dead people in the battlefield, and got Marius’ help several times. Poverty and sin surrounded his family. But they are the parents of Gavroche and Eponine. Of course, Gavroche is a wild child in Paris, and Eponine selfishly introduced him into the barricade of a near death because of Emmanuel, but I still like them. They have done some bad things because of life, but they are kind and pure in nature.
As for Javert, is Javert a bad man? He is just a poor man brainwashed by the law. When God was at war with order, duty and conscience, his faith collapsed, and finally jumped into the river to commit suicide, which was not the destruction of human beings by an ugly society.
Friends of ABC, forgive me, I can’t even remember my name before the barricade. But now, Enjolras has become one of my favorite male characters in literary works. I’m not familiar with French history, and I don’t have many concepts about democratic republic or feudal restoration. I just think they are like a fire, a lamp, illuminating the dark era. Maybe they are too idealistic, and have lost their lives for this, but their love for France, like the name of a leader, is burning.
In the interval of the story, Hugo also talked about the streets, wild children and sewers of Paris. Talk about Waterloo, and talk about 1993. Talk about the world and also about God. This is the background story of the times. Without them, the story would be thin and meaningless. Hugo is Hugo because he loves France and the people of France because he loves them deeply. “You should teach the ignorant as much as you can; the sin of society is not to provide compulsory education; it has the responsibility to create darkness. When a person’s heart is full of darkness, sin will grow there. The guilty person is not the criminal, but the person who creates darkness.”
This is a song of praise for French love, a song of praise for the beautiful human nature, and a critique of the ignorant and poor society.
“In the heyday of civilization, as long as there is still social oppression, as long as the human world is artificially turned into hell by virtue of laws and customs, which will cause suffering to the sacred destiny of mankind; as long as the three problems of this century: poverty makes men fall, hunger makes women fall, and darkness makes children weak, they can not be all solved; as long as there is still social oppression in some regions, in other words, in a broader sense, as long as the world is still If there is ignorance and hardship, then such works will not be useless. ”
