Though, the mingling of the tragic and the comic was violating one of the strictest rules of Classicism, Hugo sought only to abolish the separation and not to replace it. Even Shakespeare, whom Hugo and many of his fellow Romantics admired for his combination of tragedy and comedy, was excluded as a model for Romantic Theatre. Instead Hugo asks his fellow artists, "why attach oneself to a master, or graft oneself upon a model- (http://www.bartleby.com/39/40.html). In fact, the only model that one could say Hugo followed was that of nature. .
Hugo sought for dramas to follow only the laws of nature and no systems set by society. He felt that the rules of the past, such as the rules Aristotle put forth in Poetics, had reason in their time, but that "the virginity of one age becomes the chastity of the next- (http://www.bartleby.com/39/40.html), meaning that the choice of one age's virtue becomes the unwanted burden of the next. However, despite his fiery words against Classicism and its followers, Hugo did not entirely dismiss their unities. Hugo believed that the unity of the plot was the only unity that is universally agreed upon, a principle that can be seen throughout out Hugo's theatrical works. This preface to an unstageable play soon became the manifesto of the French Romantics and the antithesis to the French Classicists.
The publication of Cromwell enabled Hugo and his wife, Adele, to hold their own salon, where his influence over the visual artists, as well as writers, only increased. Artists who read his work, or heard him at the salons, could easily place themselves in the shoes of the writer, attacking Classicist positions. They called for "Down with theories and systems! Let us tear away the old lath-and-plaster hiding the face of art! There are neither rules nor models; or, rather, no rules but the general laws of Nature!" (Easton 45).
Inspired by Alfred de Vigny's Cinq-Mars, a romantic portrayal of Cardinal Richelieu and the first truly Romantic French novel, Hugo wrote Marion de Lorme in 1829.
Philosophy Writing for LES MISERABLES Victor Hugo's novel LES MISERABLES is an example of literary Romanticism. ... Hugo gave away his views on certain subjects in his writing. ... LES MISERABLES is Victor Hugo's epic novel of love and honor. ...
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame In this novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831), Victor Hugo talks about the life of his characters in the city of Paris. ... My eleventh and final fact is that all of this takes place during the restoration and romanticism and revolution period (1815-1850) as it states in our world history book. ... Victor Hugo should have kept just on the story of Esmerelda and Quasimodo. ...
France is the largest Western European country. Its area is about 213,000 square miles. France's population is about 58 million. There are 38 cities have over 100,000 people living in them, and 5 cities have over 300,000 people in them. The 5 largest cities are Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse...
