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Introduction: The one-act play “The Bishop’s Candlesticks” is McKinnel’s adaptation of the opening chapter of Victor Hugo’s celebrated novel Les Miserable. The play is based on the concept that no man is a born offender. It is the embodiment of a true Christian. The Bishop has all the virtues which a bishop ought to have -- he is selfless, kind, generous and charitable. He has a childlike innocence and does not understand any ‘dupe’. His absolute faith in God has made him fearless. The convict’s

The world renown classic novel, Les Miserables, written by Victor Hugo was adapted into a brilliant and masterful film through Columbia Pictures. The film was directed by Billie August, and sincerely brought to life through the actors, Liam Neeson who plays Jean Valjean and Geoffrey Rush who plays Javert. This film challenges you to look deeper than the surface, to see how things differentiate from the beginning of the movie towards the end. The characters change due to instances that have strongly

Jenneret more commonly known as Le Corbusier was born on October 6th, 1887, in La Chaux de-Fouds Switzerland. La Chaux de-Fonds was a small town renowned for its watch industry, situated close to the French boarder. Le Corbusier’s father was a watch designer for the town and his mother was a music teacher. From a young age Le Corbusier was attracted to arts and crafts, attending an art school in his hometown where he learnt about the watch making trade. In April 1902, Le Corbusier designed his first

and you have not been doing good. This is what Javert found out through his journey of chasing Jean Valjean over the years. Would this turn your world upside down? Would it make you feel like your whole life was a lie? It did to Javert in the book Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, and is the reason why Jean Valjean is the reason Javert had no other choice than to take his own life. When Valjean has Javert trapped in the barracaid he tells him “you are free” (pg. 264) but reality was that those words

remarkably visible parallels the dramatic literature Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, and the novel A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens share is unavoidable. The Dickens story is set between England and France, where revolution is stirring and thousands are dying. The Manette family faces dilemma from an ancient enemy Madame Defarge. With the aid of their close friends, victory results for Lucie Manette and her husband. Not so similarly, in the movie Les Mis, the french rebels die leaving only one man

imagination city can never exist. Yet, the concept of utopia has influenced to the arts, especially architects. In the early 20th century, the world was facing the destruction by World War 1. A modernist movement was beginning by Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, to name the best known among them. By bringing in new material such as

full of hatred. In the book “Les Miserables” by Victor Hugo, even though Fantine leaves Cosette with the retched Thenardiers, she is an extremely sacrificial mother who cares deeply about her daughter. Fantine went to the city alone, she sold her hair, teeth, and body, and she couldn’t keep her mind off of Cosette. She fell in love with the wrong man, and was abandoned to the plight of being a single mother in an age when it was almost an intolerable scandal. (." Les Miserables Fantine and Cosette:

are the types of stories that instantly gain our attention. What draws Man to such stories? Perhaps it lies in the ability of the epic to show the two paths that lie before him, eternal fulfillment or everlasting guilt. Not only does the musical Les Miserables examine multiple dimensions of the paths but it also contains the reasoning behind their existence. In other words, not only is the disease and its progress shown, but also the catching of it in the first place. On top of that stunning achievement

Andrea Zittel was born in in 1965 in California, United States. Rachel Whiteread was born in 1963 in Essex, United Kingdom. Whiteread deals largely with public art and the exploration of the negative space in architectural compositions. Rather than making casts of what is there, Whiteread makes casts of what is not there. In other words, Whiteread makes something new and tangible from the nothingness of something else. Her technique involves making resin castings of the spaces in-between, under

According to Van Eck’s study, Spini, Barbaro and Scamozzi added more meaning for rhetoric in architectural design, drawing and presentation from Aristotle’s treatise.1 Of course, pre-modern architects had used rhetorical techniques in their design with geometry and arithmetic ways, especially in the Gothic period. For Gothic architects, geometry and arithmetic were their rhetorical elements to express their architectural design because the meanings of ars is based on scientia. Gothic architects focused