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les-miserable-les-miserable-悲惨世界悲惨世界-英语演讲英语演讲PPTPPTContentContentThe authorBackgroundsMain charactersSummaryValueThemeMy thoughts Victor-Marie Hugo(February Victor-Marie Hugo(February 26,1802 May 22,1885)was 26,1802 May 22,1885)was a French poet,playwright,a French poet,playwright,novelist,essayist,visual novelist,essayist,visual artist,statesman,human artist,statesman,human rights activist and perhaps rights activist and perhaps the most influential exponent the most influential exponent of the Romantic movement in of the Romantic movement in France.In France,his literary France.In France,his literary reputation rests primarily on reputation rests primarily on his poetic and dramatic his poetic and dramatic output and only secondarily output and only secondarily on his novels.He is on his novels.He is sometimes identified as the sometimes identified as the greatest French poet.greatest French poet.Outside France,his best-Outside France,his best-known works are the novels known works are the novels Les Misrables and Notre-Les Misrables and Notre-Dame de Paris.Dame de Paris.Back-grounds Hugo began planning a major novel about social misery and injustice as early as the 1830s,but it would take a full 17 years for his most enduringly popular work,Les Misrables,to be realized and finally published in 1862.The author was acutely aware of the quality of the novel and publication of the work went to the highest bidder.Ran A Rang the prisoner.JavertJavert the policeman.the policeman.Cosette Fantines daughter.MariusMarius Cosettes loverCosettes lover Fantinea woman cheated by a dissolute manage.Thnardiersthe couple raise Cosette at first,MariusMariuss fathers s fathers lifesaver.lifesaver.ponineponine elder daughter,love elder daughter,love MariusMarius very much.very much.Ran A RangsRan A Rangs Convicted for stealing Convicted for stealing a loaf of bread,he is a loaf of bread,he is punished in prison punished in prison for nineteen years.for nineteen years.Rejected as former Rejected as former convict,Bishop convict,Bishop Myriel turns his life Myriel turns his life around.He assumes around.He assumes a new identity to a new identity to pursue an honest life,pursue an honest life,becomes a factory becomes a factory owner and a mayor.owner and a mayor.He adopts and raises He adopts and raises Fantines daughter,Fantines daughter,Cosette,and dies at Cosette,and dies at an old age.an old age.JavertJavert An obsessive police An obsessive police inspector who inspector who continuously hunts,continuously hunts,tracks down,and tracks down,and loses loses Ran A RangRan A Rang.He.He goes goes undercoverundercover behind the barricade,behind the barricade,but is unmasked.but is unmasked.Ran Ran A RangA Rang has the has the chance to kill Javert,chance to kill Javert,but lets him go.Later but lets him go.Later Javert allows Javert allows Ran A Ran A RangRang to escape.For to escape.For the first time,Javert is the first time,Javert is in a situation in which in a situation in which to act lawfully is to act lawfully is immoral.His inner immoral.His inner conflict leads him to conflict leads him to jumping into the jumping into the River River SeineSeine.Fantine A beautiful girl abandoned by her A beautiful girl abandoned by her lover,she leaves her daughter lover,she leaves her daughter Cosette in the care of the Cosette in the care of the Thnardiers,in Montfermeil.She Thnardiers,in Montfermeil.She finds work at the factory runned finds work at the factory runned by by Ran A RangRan A Rang,but is fired by a,but is fired by a woman because she is an woman because she is an unmarried mother.To meet the unmarried mother.To meet the demands for money from the demands for money from the Thnardiers,she sells her hair,Thnardiers,she sells her hair,then her front teeth,and finally then her front teeth,and finally turns to prostitution.turns to prostitution.Ran A RangRan A Rang learns of her situation when learns of her situation when Javert arrests her.She dies Javert arrests her.She dies before before Ran A RangRan A Rang is able to is able to reunite her with Cosette.reunite her with Cosette.Cosette The daughter of The daughter of Fantine,she is raised Fantine,she is raised by by Ran A RangRan A Rang after her after her mother dies.mother dies.For the first few years she For the first few years she is raised,she is used as a is raised,she is used as a worker and beaten by the worker and beaten by the Thnardiers.She falls in Thnardiers.She falls in love with Marius love with Marius Pontmercy,and marries Pontmercy,and marries him at the end of the him at the end of the novel.novel.Marius Pontmercy An aristocrat who fell out with his royalist grandfather after discovering his father was an officer under Napoleon.He studies law,joins the revolutionary ABC students and later falls in love with Cosette.Thnardiers They take in Cosette in They take in Cosette in her first years,her first years,mistreating and mistreating and abusing her.They end abusing her.They end up losing the inn and up losing the inn and move to Paris.move to Paris.Thnardier is later the Thnardier is later the head of a criminal head of a criminal gang called the gang called the Patron-MinettePatron-Minette.The.The family also live next family also live next door to Marius,who door to Marius,who recognizes Thnardier recognizes Thnardier as the man who saved as the man who saved his father at Waterloo.his father at Waterloo.ponineponine The Thnardiers elder The Thnardiers elder daughter.She participates in daughter.She participates in her fathers crimes to obtain her fathers crimes to obtain money.She is also in love with money.She is also in love with Marius.At Marius request,she Marius.At Marius request,she finds Cosettes address for him finds Cosettes address for him and leads him to her.She dies and leads him to her.She dies at the barricades when she at the barricades when she reaches out her hand to stop a reaches out her hand to stop a soldiers bullet heading for soldiers bullet heading for Marius:she is mortally Marius:she is mortally wounded as the bullet goes wounded as the bullet goes through her back and dies.Her through her back and dies.Her final request is that once she final request is that once she has passed,Marius will kiss has passed,Marius will kiss her on the forehead.Of course her on the forehead.Of course,he does.,he does.Summary The novel basic plot is Ran A Rangs pitiful life.He once is onepoorbackground worker,because the incomes cant be enough for the family members life,once upon atime,he stoles the bread and is arrested,which makes him pass 19 years firm bitter service life.After the punishments,he uses an alias is After the punishments,he uses an alias is Madland,works as the entrepreneur,and isMadland,works as the entrepreneur,and ispushed for mayor.But soon and further because pushed for mayor.But soon and further because his exposing,he was arrested again,after his exposing,he was arrested again,after another escape,he rescues the poor female another escape,he rescues the poor female worker-Fantins daughter-Cosette.Then,worker-Fantins daughter-Cosette.Then,he and Cosette have the peaceful life.When he and Cosette have the peaceful life.When Cosette grows up,she marries to a young Cosette grows up,she marries to a young man called man called Marius PontmercyMarius Pontmercy.At last,this old At last,this old man dies at an old age,quietman dies at an old age,quiet，just like the just like the angle.angle.The value Les Miserables (1862)is representative works of Victor Hugo,as one of thefamous novels in the French literature.It is the work which is real and the romantic at many chapters.But the romanticism technique quite was also the plot arrangement,writes the many extraordinary events.The themeThe themeThis story tells us about kind.Hugo hopes This story tells us about kind.Hugo hopes the society becomes clear and human.So the society becomes clear and human.So his plot bases on Ran A Ranga his plot bases on Ran A Ranga miserable man.Then he tell the story miserable man.Then he tell the story about the poor womanFantine,next is about the poor womanFantine,next is Cosette.All these stories has the Cosette.All these stories has the comments,that is the miserable life comments,that is the miserable life because of the persecution of the upper because of the persecution of the upper class.In facts,Hugo was raging of the class.In facts,Hugo was raging of the present society.present society.My thoughtsMy thoughts I like this novel very much.I dare say that it is the I like this novel very much.I dare say that it is the most wonderful novel that I have ever read.From most wonderful novel that I have ever read.From this novel I learn a lot of things:kind,tolerancethis novel I learn a lot of things:kind,toleranceI have cried at the end of the novel,I am moved by I have cried at the end of the novel,I am moved by Ran A Rang.He is really a great man.Rans Ran A Rang.He is really a great man.Rans kindness of the kindness of the ThnardiersThnardiers,Javer,Javer,MariusMarius.The.The most important is that he doest want they to most important is that he doest want they to return him anything.I just cant understand how return him anything.I just cant understand how could manage it,just because that this is a novel,and could manage it,just because that this is a novel,and Ran doesnt exists in the real world?I dont Ran doesnt exists in the real world?I dont know,and I believe there maybe person just like Ran.know,and I believe there maybe person just like Ran.In this novel,Hugo thinks that there are two In this novel,Hugo thinks that there are two kinds of laws.One is the kindness,the other is kinds of laws.One is the kindness,the other is the punishment.Ran comes out of the prison the punishment.Ran comes out of the prison after about nineteenth-years hard life.Then after about nineteenth-years hard life.Then there are two kinds of attitudes towards him.there are two kinds of attitudes towards him.One is the kindness from One is the kindness from Bishop Myriel which Bishop Myriel which leads him to a peaceful life.Another is the leads him to a peaceful life.Another is the persecution and punishment from the plicepersecution and punishment from the pliceJaver leading him to a more serious life.At last,Javer leading him to a more serious life.At last,the police jumps into the river,just because of the police jumps into the river,just because of the awareness of the kind heart.the awareness of the kind heart.I believe that only have the kind heart and soul,can I believe that only have the kind heart and soul,can we reach a peaceful and contented life of the mind.we reach a peaceful and contented life of the mind.I try to do the same thing as Ran does.I know that I try to do the same thing as Ran does.I know that I cant do well,however,I want to try and try.I cant do well,however,I want to try and try.I dont want to any returns.Maybe,just for my I dont want to any returns.Maybe,just for my heart,just because I may have a sound sleep every heart,just because I may have a sound sleep every night.night.I want to say a good book is really a sincere friend I want to say a good book is really a sincere friend and teacher.I learn from it,also do the right things and teacher.I learn from it,also do the right things that it suggests.that it suggests.结束结束