Contrast in Hugo's poems

Victor hugo (1February 26th, 802-1May 22nd, 885), a famous French writer, is known as French Shakespeare. He is one of the most influential writers in French literature history. He wrote many poems, novels, plays, essays, literary comments and political articles in his life, which have a wide influence in France and even the world.

Hugo is the leader of the French romantic literature movement. Why is he called "Shakespeare of France"? We analyze the reasons from the characteristics of his works.

Hugo's artistic features are exaggeration, extraordinary characters and extraordinary plots. His hero is either portrayed as an extremely heroic act or as an extremely cruel and despicable act. Their personality traits are exaggerated. This story is extraordinary. Contradictions followed, and once again made full use of coincidence, encounter and other means, tortuous and fascinating. Hugo's creation is the practice of his aesthetic contrast view. He likes sharp contrast. The environmental description of works can not be separated from this principle.

Hugo is good at describing great scenes and events, such as the Battle of Waterloo. At the same time, the author also likes to highlight his subjective feelings in his works. He expressed his love and hate passionately, which aroused the sympathy of readers.

There are fundamental differences between positive romanticism and negative romanticism.

Positive romanticism uses rhetoric, exaggeration and strong contrast to construct the plot. Hugo's works reproduce the typical characters and social and historical essence of real phenomena with extraordinary images and practices. It essentially reflects the author's reality and progressive ideal. Hugo skillfully combined realism with romanticism. In a large number of his romantic works, there are real typical characters, and sometimes realism and romanticism are used to shape characters at the same time.

Hugo painted charming pictures in his works with superb artistic skills. He strictly distinguishes artistic truth from natural truth, and emphasizes the role of the writer's subjective thoughts in his creation. He put forward the principle of contrast and advocated absolute exaggeration. He arranged compact plots in his works and created extraordinary characters. His principle of contrast is not the same as explaining contradictions in reality. His reaction to nature is also dominated by his romantic plans.

However, his contrast principle embodies the requirement of expanding the scope of expression of positive romantic literature. This requirement sweeps away the ancient classic dogma.