Remember the end of Notre Dame:
when people try to separate Quasimodo from the skeleton he holds, Esmeralda, he turns to dust.
The ending of "The Laughing Man" is the most impressive I've ever seen:
"Farewell!" Tee said
...Gwenplain stood up and looked up into the endless night. "Here I am!" He walked to the side of the boat, as if a vision had drawn him. He had a smile on his face, the same smile that Ti had just now. There was a light in his eyes.
. . . The sky was dark and not even a single star, but it was obvious that he saw one. "Tee, look, here I am!"
... The night was dull and dark; the water was so deep that he sank.
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He is good at integrating the background of the times into novels, and has a strong pursuit of beautiful human nature and a powerful whipping of ugly reality. Let readers examine human society from a broader historical perspective and a height of human nature. "Les Miserables" is set in a larger, more poignant Napoleonic War era than "The Laughing Man" and "Notre Dame," with Cosette, Cosette's mother Fantine, the priest and Jean Valjean, and the police Javert, the husband and wife who adopted little Cosette, and even the female workers who drove Fantine away all jump out of the novel vividly. The final inner monologue of Aran and Javert, who rescued the priest, is the embodiment of the core idea of the whole book: goodness and love (caring for human nature) will eventually break people's old thinking, moral system and order, and rebuild a more loving beauty new world.
The significance of classic works lies in the heart and even life of the people who wrote them, so they are as profound as a wise old man, and as innocent and romantic as a child. Make people have a clear direction and hope for life and the future!
Quoting a fragment of Hugo's poem "France", echoing "Les Miserables"
France! You fell down on the ground,
The tyrant stomps on your head,
but the sound will emanate from the cave,
causing those who are locked to tremble with excitement.
An exile stands on the beach,
facing the stars, facing the sea, and
he shouts in the dark , his
voice seems to come from a dream.
…
despicable murderers and oppressors
are nailed to the pillar of shame by him!
His words call upon the hearts of men
like a warrior!
This sound is like a torrential rain and thunder,
whirling and hovering over the nations;
if the living are asleep,
let the dead wake up!
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