Victor hugo, a French romantic writer, a humanitarian representative and a bourgeois-democratic writer in the history of French literature, experienced almost all the major events in France in the19th century and was called "French Shakespeare". He wrote many poems, novels, plays, various essays, literary comments and political articles in his life, and was an influential figure in France.
Hugo's creative history is over 60 years, and his works include 26 volumes of poems, 20 volumes of novels, 2 volumes of scripts1and 2 volumes of philosophical works, totaling 79 volumes. His masterpieces include the novel Notre Dame de Paris, 1993 and Les Miserables, and the short story Death in Normandy.
The background of Notre Dame de Paris;
In France, the Bourbon dynasty overthrown by the bourgeois revolutionary regime was restored in 18 15 with the support of foreign feudal forces. Until 1830, the "July Revolution" broke out in France, ending the feudal rule of Bourbon restoration.
Under the rule of the restoration dynasty, the French court and the church were in cahoots and oppressed the people. In Paris at that time, the religious forces were evil and dark, the feudal hierarchy was cruel, and human nature was distorted and degraded under the suppression of feudalism. All social strata, especially the lower classes, are deeply sympathetic. The oppressed people rose up and fought bravely with the two forces and finally won.
Hugo felt the darkness and cruelty of feudal rule and created Notre Dame de Paris, which reflected real life through the Paris society of15th century.