Victor Hugo Research Paper

Victor Hugo “Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.” What does this mean? Victor Hugo, one of the greatest and best known French writers and novelists created such a quote that triggers the mind. Hugo has published volumes and volumes of his poetry and produced more than hundreds of paintings. Victor Hugo expresses himself through his social consciousness, his affairs, and republicanism.

Victor Hugo demonstrates his beliefs through his social consciousness. Victor Hugo was born on February 26, 1802 in France growing up under his mother’s Catholic Royalist beliefs for years. When Hugo was a teenager, him and his two older brothers named Abel Joseph Hugo and Eugene Hugo grew up rather poor. The Hugo’s never had a stable household and moved frequently because Victor’s father was a general under Napoleon’s wing. Hugo often bashed Napoleon read his writings, he soon exiled Hugo immediately. During exile, Hugo spent roughly 15 years in Guernsey at the Hauteville House and published two controversial and debate pamphlets against Napoleon III. Once Napoleon III died, Hugo still stayed in exile

When Victor Hugo was around a mature teenage age, he started to grow a love towards his neighbor’s daughter, Adele Foucher. Hugo’s mother’s fierce resistance toward Adele had the couple have to continue the relationship covertly. Later, Hugo had married his childhood dream girl after his mother’s death and had five children but his first child died before adulthood. Adele became romantically involved with a well-known critic and a friend of Hugo’s named Sainte-Beuve. At the same time Victor started to have feeling for an actress names Juliette Drouet and soon became Hugo’s mistress. Then Victor fell in sexual exploits with Leonie Biard and Alice Ozy, Victor Hugo was state as a man of charm and quoted “Sex for him was a form of contemplation.” (Behnant,