Hugo is France's national poet, playwright, novelist, essayist and literary critic, the leader of the French romantic literature movement, his creative activities up to 60 years.It has had a huge impact on the whole of the 19th century French literature. With the words of Sutter, a famous French philosopher, Hugo is one of the very few real popular writers in France ". During the long years of writing, Hugo wrote a lot of poems, plays and novels. ［by en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo］His work describes the working people of the suffering of life, expose and criticize the evils of capitalist society, against the tyranny of the nobility and the church, sing the praises of the fighting spirit of the masses of the people, full of patriotic passion, …show more content…
Hugo inherited the thought tradition of the progress of the French bourgeois revolution, is an outstanding democratic fighter, is the outstanding representative of bourgeois democracy.From a slightly longer period of time, the French Revolution has brought a more revolutionary change. It changed the identity of the French people, so that they become citizens from the subject, which makes a modern society based on the rights and citizens become possible. Whether Napoleon, or Louis eighteen and Charlie ten are unable to fundamentally reverse this trend. In nineteenth Century, the revolution became a tradition and memory, and the right to fight for the rights of the people and the legitimacy of many of the revolutionary. People's pursuit of political rights, though temporarily restricted, but they will soon be fighting for other rights. At the same time, the revolution has also created an "imagined community": the French people. In the tradition of French nationalism, the core of this community is the citizen, the right and the