The author makes full use of the romantic contrast between beauty and ugliness in the preface to Cromwell, describes the good and evil, the beauty and ugliness, the sublime and the humble, and exaggerates some characteristics in the environment, events, plot arrangement, characterization and other aspects, resulting in a strong contrast.
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Creation background
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, religious forces were evil and dark, feudalism and other systems were 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.
Brief introduction of the author
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 more than 60 years, and his works include 26 volumes of poems, 20 volumes of novels, 2 volumes of scripts and 2 volumes of philosophical works, totaling 79 volumes.
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