les+miserable.ppt

1、,GOOD AFTERNOON !,-Zhang Yu,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 influent

2、ial 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 Misrables and Notr

3、e-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 Misrables, to be realized and finally published in 1862. The author was acutely aware of the quality of

4、 the novel and publication of the work went to the highest bidder.,The main characters,Ran A Rang the prisoner. Javert the policeman. Cosette Fantines daughter. Marius Cosettes lover Fantine a woman cheated by a dissolute manage. Thnardiers the couple raise Cosette at first, Mariuss fathers lifesave

5、r. ponine elder daughter,love Marius very much .,Ran A Rangs Convicted for stealing a loaf of bread, he is punished in prison for nineteen years. Rejected as former convict, Bishop Myriel turns his life around. He assumes a new identity to pursue an honest life, becomes a factory owner and a mayor.

6、He adopts and raises Fantines 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 a

7、llows 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.,Fantine A beautiful girl abandoned by her lover, she leaves her daughter Cosette in the care of the Thnardiers, in Montfermeil.

8、She finds work at the factory runned by Ran A Rang, but is fired by a woman because she is an unmarried mother. To meet the demands for money from the Thnardiers, she sells her hair, then her front teeth, and finally turns to prostitution. Ran A Rang learns of her situation when Javert arrests her.

9、She dies before Ran A Rang is able to reunite her with Cosette.,Cosette The daughter of Fantine, she is raised by Ran A Rang after her mother dies.,For the first few years she is raised, she is used as a worker and beaten by the Thnardiers. She falls in love with Marius Pontmercy, and marries him at

10、 the end of the novel.,Marius Pontmercy An aristocrat who fell out with his royalist grandfather after discovering his father was an officer under Napoleon. He studies law, joins the revolutionary ABC students and later falls in love with Cosette.,Thnardiers,They take in Cosette in her first years,

11、mistreating and abusing her. They end up losing the inn and move to Paris. Thnardier is later the head of a criminal gang called the Patron-Minette. The family also live next door to Marius, who recognizes Thnardier as the man who saved his father at Waterloo.,ponine The Thnardiers elder daughter. S

12、he participates in her fathers crimes to obtain money. She is also in love with Marius. At Marius request, she finds Cosettes address for him and leads him to her. She dies at the barricades when she reaches out her hand to stop a soldiers bullet heading for Marius: she is mortally wounded as the bu

13、llet goes through her back and dies. Her final request is that once she has passed, Marius will kiss her on the forehead. Of course ,he does.,Summary,The novel basic plot is Ran A Rangs pitiful life. He once is one poor background worker, because the incomes cant be enough for the family members lif

14、e, once upon a time , he stoles the bread and is arrested, which makes him pass 19 years firm bitter service life.,After the punishments , he uses an alias is Madland, works as the entrepreneur, and is pushed for mayor. But soon and further because his exposing , he was arrested again , after anothe

15、r escape , he rescues the poor female worker - Fantins daughter -Cosette. Then , he and Cosette have the peaceful life . When Cosette grows up , she marries to a young man called Marius Pontmercy . At last ,this old man dies at an old age ,quiet，just like the angle .,The value, Les Miserables (1862)

16、 is representative works of Victor Hugo,as one of the famous novels in the French literature. It is the work which is real and the romantic at many chapters. But the romanticism technique quite was also the plot arrangement, writes the many extraordinary events.,The theme,This story tells us about k

17、ind. Hugo hopes the society becomes clear and human. So his plot bases on Ran A Ranga miserable man. Then he tell the story about the poor womanFantine ,next is Cosette. All these stories has the comments, that is the miserable life because of the persecution of the upper class. In facts, Hugo was r

18、aging of the present society.,My thoughts,I like this novel very much. I dare say that it is the most wonderful novel that I have ever read . From this novel I learn a lot of things: kind, tolerance I have cried at the end of the novel, I am moved by Ran A Rang .He is really a great man. Rans kindne

19、ss of the Thnardiers, Javer, Marius. The most important is that he doest want they to return him anything. I just cant understand how could manage it ,just because that this is a novel,and Ran doesnt exists in the real world ? I dont know,and I believe there maybe person just like Ran .,In this novel, Hugo thinks that there are two kinds of laws .One is the kindness, the other is the punishment. Ran comes out of the prison after about nineteenth-years hard life. Then there are two kinds of attitudes towards him . One is the kindness from Bishop Myriel which leads