les miserable.ppt

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Les Miserable
Content
The author
Backgrounds
Main characters
Summary
Value
Theme
My thoughts
Victor-Marie Hugo (February 26, 1802 – May 22, 1885) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and perhaps the most influential exponent of the Romantic movement in France. In France, his literary reputation rests primarily on his poetic and dramatic output and only secondarily on his novels. He is sometimes identified as the greatest French poet. Outside France, his best-known works are the novels Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris.
Back-grounds
Hugo began planning a major novel about social misery and injustice as early as the 1830s, but it would take a full 17 years for his most enduringly popular work, Les Misérables, to be realized and finally published in 1862.
The author was acutely aware of the quality of the novel and publication of the work went to the highest bidder.
The main characters
Ran A Rang
the prisoner.
Javert
the policeman.
Cosette
Fantine’s daughter.
Marius
Cosette’s lover
Fantine
a woman cheated by a dissolute manage.
Thénardiers
the couple raise Cosette at first, Marius’s father’s lifesaver.
Éponine
elder daughter,love Marius very much .
Ran A Rang’s Convicted for stealing a loaf of bread, he is punished in prison for een years. Rejected as former convict, Bishop Myriel turns his life around. He assumes a new identity to pursue an honest life, es a factory owner and a mayor. He adopts and raises Fantine's daughter, Cosette, and dies at an old age.
Javert
An obsessive police inspector who continuously hunts, tracks down, and loses Ran A Rang. He goes undercover behind the barricade, but is unmasked. Ran A Rang has the chance to kill Javert, but lets him go. Later Javert allows Ran A Rang to escape. For the first time, Javert is in a situation in which to act lawfully is immoral. His inner conflict leads him to jumping into the River Seine.