... him a hero, not a criminal of the law! Work Cited Fernie, Stuart. Jean Valjean Portrait of a Tragic Hero. 10-23-00. Internet. Play. www.geocities.com/stuartfernie/ValJean.htm Hugo, Victor. Les Miserables. New York. Signet Classic. 1987 Grossman, Kathryn M. Les Miserables: Conversion, Revolution, Redemption. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996. ...
... successful and she went to Hollywood for a short time where she lived the life which our society describes as "successful". This experience reminds me of a quote by Victor Hugo in Les Miserables, " To the masses, success has almost the same appearance as supremacy. Success, that pretender to talent, has a dupe, history (Hugo 51). After this short stay in Hollywood she returned to ... ...
The Discovery of what it means to be an American Growing up as a poor African American in New York City, James Baldwin finds himself isolated from Whites and blacks with questions about self identity. In 1948, disgusted with race relations in the United States, he moved to Paris where he lived, on and off, for the rest of his life. During his travels in Europe he discovers that the limitations that he was bounded by in America were no longer prevalent in European society. Baldwin went to Europe to find out how his experience as a black American "could be made to connect [him] with other people...
