Lei Miserables

"It is precisely of him that I wished to speak. Dispose of me as you please; but help me first to carry him home. I only ask that of you." Upon examination of Les Miserables, it is clearly evident that the elements of Forgiveness, Self – Sacrifice, and Courage are only a few of the main themes Hugo wanted to develop.

These three main ideas results the tragedy of this play. The character of Hamlet and Laertes express their loyalty that changes the nature of their relationship with others and displays its positive and negative outcomes. Throughout the play, loyalty is first seen through family. It is centered between Hamlet and the ghost also known as his father.

Overall, the film did exactly what any good dramatic film would do and that is make the audience feel something. The tragedy of the Holocaust has never been fictionally depicted from a German child’s view until this movie. The depiction of how a child who is protected from certain elements war might have thought in that era makes this film unique. The unbelievable conclusion is what makes this film unforgettable. The most important scene in the film is the ending, when Bruno

     ?Life Is Beautiful? shows one family?s experience in the concentration camp. Benigni makes the audience fall in love with the main character in the beginning by letting them see the way his life was and how truly happy he was. He shows him falling in love with a Christian woman and having an upbeat, curious little boy. By doing this, the audience experiences the sadness that the characters felt in the movie when they are separated. The audience feels sad when his Christian wife is separated from her family even though she wasn?t supposed to be at the camp in the first place. They also feel fear when his son has to hide every day from the Jews so that he won?t be taken to the furnace. At the end of the movie, when

To Begin, on the story Night many themes were developed like “inhumanity” and “guilt and inaction”. Inhumanity was the major one in both the movie and the novel because of the horrible things each of the characters experiences while in the concentration camp and even outside of it. For example, while Elie was in the concentration camp he experienced things like starvation and horrible beatings. He was on the level of extreme mistreatment. This especially shown when Elie was forced to go on a death march and says, “Cursed and prodded by the SS and whipped by the wind, the prisoners march. The guards yell at them to go faster and they begin to run. They hear explosions from time to time: the SS have orders to shoot anyone who can't keep up the pace.” This is similar to the movie because while Bruno was in the camp

The theme of the value of human life can be depicted in the story through the use of irony. In the short story, the utopian kingdom of Omelas is kept happy due to the child that is locked away. Ursula Le Guin states, “they all understand that their happiness, the beauty of their city, the tenderness of their friendship, the health of their children, the wisdom of their scholars, the skill of their makers, even the abundance of their harvest and the kindly weathers of their skies, depend wholly on this child’s abominable misery”. Everyone in the town knows of the child’s existence and believes that it is because of his mistreatment that they have happiness. The kingdom believes that “to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything” (Guin). This is ironic because Omelas is supposed to be a happy kingdom, free of violence except for the violence inflicted upon the child. This one human life is bringing happiness to the whole town.

Steadfastness, so no one can change their way of thinking, If Martin Luther King wasn’t steadfast, the death threats would’ve made him step down from doing the right thing. And tenacity, heroes need tenacity for when they feel tired, they will not give up. If you give up the goal will never be

Thénardier, scavenging for valuables among the dead bodies, steals Marius's ring. Valjean escapes through the sewers carrying Marius, but is confronted by Javert at the end tunnel. Javert threatens to shoot Valjean if he doesn’t surrender, but Valjean just ignores him and leave. Unable to resolve his internal conflict between his civil responsibilities and morality, Javert commits suicide by jumping off a bridge into the Seine river.

The tone of the passage is "troubled," which diction, syntax, and imagery create. The author, Victor Hugo, uses melancholy words, like intolerable, somber, and trembling, to describe what Jean Valjean is going through and his confusion. Creating a fluid idea of uncertainty, the word choice adds to the tone by varying connotation. In one sentence, the author describes painful glimpses, but in the next, glimpses of light are vivid. Along with diction, Hugo uses syntax to create his hesitant tone. The sentences in this passage are complex, leading one to think that Valjean’s mind is rambling, filled with thoughts and uncertainty. Using imagery, a way to paint a picture with words, the author describes settings and events in this passage. Working

What Javert cares about is for justice to be served and because of that he pursues on to arrest Jean Valjean. But of course as we all know, perspectives can change in a moment. A moment that can destroy tunnels of shadows and open up new enlightenment.

Distance the film maintains from realistic depictions of the holocaust enables the director to use history to remind the audience of the moral lessons that it contains. Life is Beautiful begins by stating that it is a fable, defying genre yet still it still sets out in its goal in influencing or creating new values and attitudes. A fable is a story often beyond reality, to provide a moral lesson. Fairy-tale cannon bookends the movie, it begins with a voiceover, “ This is a simple story, but not an easy one to tell. Like a fable, there is sorrow and, like a fable, it is full of wonder and happiness. ”

After leading Marius to the barricade, Eponine realizes that taking him there was not a good idea, so she literally took a bullet to save Marius's life. Marius does not realize that it was her who saved him until she is crawling at his feet. He looks down at her when she says to him, "Did you see the musket aimed at you?" Marius knew what she was talking about and said, "Yes, and a hand which stopped it." Eponine admits that is was her who sacrificed herself to save him when she says, "That was mine" (Hugo 288). Eponine is showing her sacrificial tendencies by giving up her own life in order to save Marius's. She realizes that in order for Marius to be happy he deserves to be with Cosette, so she literally takes a bullet for him. She would rather die alone than not be able to live a life with Marius all the time.

The film Amelie provides multiple examples of individuals sacrificing, and applying Campbell 's moral objective to their own lives. One of the people from the film that follow the objective is Dominique Bretodeau. When he was a young boy, he lost his treasure box. Directly after it was returned to him from a stranger, he began to tear up over the lost memories that the box contained. He then confides in people at the bar that he has not spoken to his daughter in years, and because of this does not know his grandson. This simple act of kindness was enough to make Bretodeau sacrifice his pride enough to reconcile with his daughter and grandson. He had no idea if his family was going to open their arms, or push him away for being away for so long. This failed to stop Bretodeau. This journey of becoming a hero was a spiritual one. Most of the conflict happened within his own heart. A small act of thoughtfulness helped a man choose to create a better life for him, and his estranged family.

"True redemption is when guilt leads to good" (Khaled Hosseini). Not one person on earth is completely free from wrongs. Humans have lapses in judgement that can hurt them and others. Some people believe you can be redeemed and can put your wrongs behind you, these people are kind and generous. Others believe you have one chance to get it right, these people are often angry and judgmental. There are also those who believe that someone can't be redeemed, but begin to realize that people can change. By looking at the Bishop, Javert, and Jean Valjean and their actions it becomes clear that Les Miserables is a book about redemption coming to those who did wrongs in their past and the behaviors of those who believe and don't believe.

In his novel, Les Miserables, Victor Hugo identifies the principle social evils of French society through the actions and qualities of his characters. By depicting each of his characters’ struggles through destitute and oppressed measures, Hugo is able to identify the social errors of 19th century France. The fact that characters such as Valjean, Javert, Fantine, and Cosette, attempt to rise above poverty and redeem themselves indicate that such inequalities did, and still do, exist to this day. Through the use of feminist ideals and the criminal injustice system, Hugo attacks the principle social evils that each of his characters face in Les Miserables.