Victor Hugo's Accomplishments

Victor Hugo was given the chance at a life of prosperity with little work, but decided to build from the ground up and become an author. His life experiences affected his works in ways many authors wish they could have endured to have such an insight. Hugo was born into a world where men were beaten for being poor and executed for having the slightest deformity. Hugo indirectly shared his thoughts on social injustice in the forms of works that include, but are not limited to Les Miserables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, The Last Day of a Condemned Man, and Claude Gueux. There was not a day in his life in which his fellow countrymen were not dying on the vast plains of Spain, the marshes of Italy, or the frozen Russian abyss that is Siberia. These images engraved in his mind were rewritten in the form of poems in The Expiation and his novel, Ninety-Three. He was hunted down by the French government under the rule of Napoleon III and was forced into exile. Hugo wrote Toilers of the Sea to paint a vivid picture of his life of exile using characters with close qualities to that of him and his wife. Towards the end of his life, Victor Hugo also wrote many works involving death and depression due to

He wrote Les Contemplations, for his deceased daughter to explain his dreadful thoughts on the matter. He then wrote And There Was Night and L'Année terrible to show the tragedies of his wife and son. Hugo was also very dreadful and depressed towards the end of his life and wrote about death and sorrow in one of his notable works, The Man Who Laughs(The Man Who Laughs: Into the Book). The novel shows how meaningless death is as many of the main character’s friends and loved ones die(showing the situation he is in during that point in his life). Hugo suffered a lot towards the end of his life and this suffering and dreadfulness is portrayed in many of his