Victor Hugo- Styles And Themes
Victor Hugo
Many critics would go as far as to say that Victor Hugo was and remains the Charles Dickens of France. Hugo is most well known for the writing of the famous Broadway show and book Les Misérables as well as what became the Disney Hit Hunchback of Notre Dame. A brilliant author, artist, and poet, Hugo is most recognized for his writing of government and revolution. But these themes that are common for many authors to write of have actually deemed Hugo quite unique, so much so that critics have deemed his writing “above any comprehendible human standards.” Edward Rothstein illustrates this in his essay Victor Hugo: A Theme of Good and Evil? Not So Fast. “We keep returning to the French romantic writer even as our films and entertainments keep trying to remake him in our own image, reduce him to our own size,” (par 6) he says. Rothstein describes just how powerful the writing of Hugo is. So powerful, that his readers have to reduce the writing’s power so that we......
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