What is the theme of Les Miserables?

The theme of Les Miserables is to express the call for love and sympathy (humanitarianism) by showing the unfairness of French society in the19th century and the long-term influence of the French Revolution.

1849 The French Revolution broke out and King Louis of France was executed. During this period, Hugo advocated revolution everywhere, made great contributions to the people, won the respect of the new regime, was promoted to count, and was elected as a national representative and member of parliament.

Three years later, Napoleon proclaimed himself emperor for the third time, and Hugo attacked him, so he went into exile. In the next 20 years, I wandered around, during which I finished the novel Les Miserables, from which a musical of the same name was adapted.

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1832, the conception of this novel is quite clear. Moreover, on the basis of collecting materials, he wrote novels such as Diary of Death row (1830) and Claude Ge (1834), which exposed the social reality that led people to commit crimes and severely condemned the judicial system.

In addition, he also published the masterpiece Notre Dame de Paris (183 1), as well as many poems and plays, but he did not write this work that made his heart heavy.

It has been brewing for twenty years, and it was not until June18451kloc-0/Hugo that he finally began to create, and at the same time, he constantly supplemented the materials and enriched the content. He successfully finished his first book, named Suffering, and has written nearly four-fifths of the manuscript. Unexpectedly, Hugo was involved in the political whirlpool again, and on February 2668+0848.

The fate of the book "Suffering" will also be exiled in the fetus with the author. During his exile in Ganassi Island, Hugo re-examined and reflected everything with all-round eyes and thoughts. On this basis, the manuscript of Suffering was greatly revised and adjusted, and many new contents were added. Finally, the book was completed and named Les Miserables. ?

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