a sight through the eyes of victor hugo

Join me in a quest to fall into the abyss of the mind of Victor Hugo. Let us begin our journey with the basics. Victor-Marie Hugo, was born February 26, 1802 in Besancon, France to Joseph-Leopold-Sigisbert Hugo and Sophie Trebuche Hugo. His father was a military officer who later served as a general under none other than the all knowing and powerful Napoleon.

Hugo was in no way a lonely child, spoiled by his parents and given every thing he could have ever dreamed for in his life, seeing as there were two other children that had graced the earth before Victor’s presence was ever felt or thought about for that matter. Not too much longer after Hugo presence was indeed felt, tension and anger began between his parents and soon they separated and went there seperate ways. Being brought up and switched out between two households, his father and his mothers, was very confusing and painful for him.

In Hugo’s later teenage years, with very little finances coming his way, he began schooling at Pension Cordier and the Lycee Louis-le-Grande as a law student, later on he ended up graduating from the law faculty at Paris. This time later influenced his writing of the magnificent Les Miserables. A year after his mother died in 1821, Hugo published his first book of poems referred to as Odes et poesies diverses, many parts of these poems earned him a pension from the great and powerful Louis XVIII. Within less than a ten year span after his first publication he published seven other books and poems including but not limited to: Han d’Islande, Hans of Iceland, Muse Francaise, Nouvelles Odes, Bug-Jargal, Odes et Ballades, and Les Orientales.

In the adventures of The Hunchback of Notre Dame we experience the era of none other than the middl...

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...bjects such as ones reffering to things like these. For instance, in my opinion his writing was nothing but senseless ramblings of useless, irrelevant information. Even though Hugo had his random, rare spouts of inspirational qoutings in the midst of all of his unbareable babbling along, I do truly believe he was overly popularized with his so called magically, majestic writings! There is one thing I feel I must say however before I come to the end of this paper, I do believe that my ignorance could be self conciously shining through in this literary criticism. I say this because it is impossible to know the exact feelings and mindset of the audience he was portraying to. Therefore even though my opinion is very meek and grim about his writings, this quite possibly could have been the exact words of encouragement they needed in there era to get them through the day.