Gwen Alvin's speech in parliament was a powerful accusation against that society. In fact, the tragic experience of Gwen Alvin and his two relatives, Susie and Judy, is a powerful accusation. The ruler's magic hand destroyed their happiness. Even if Seuss firmly adhered to his creed that "silence is the only friend of the poor", he could not escape from this invisible and terrible hand. These kind poor people, their fate was the common fate of the working people in Britain at that time. Hugo vividly depicts the images of these main characters in his novels by using the romantic contrast he is best at.
Gwen Alvin's face is ugly, but his heart is beautiful. When he was abandoned and struggled with death alone, he also wanted to save another child and shoulder the fate of another person. When he became a knight, he couldn't forget the sufferings of the people and denounced those noble lords. Finally, he was willing to abandon his wealth and return to his relatives. So, "although everyone thinks he is a monster, Judy thinks he is a fairy in the sky." Kitty said, "Ugly, what is this?" Doing bad things is ugly. Gwen Alvin only does good deeds. So he is the most beautiful. Kitty herself is blind and has never seen the sun since she was a child, but her eyes are "invisible, but full of light". "She can see what bright eyes can't see. This is the inner beauty of Gwen Alvin. She loves Gwen Alvin and regards Gwen Alvin as her sun. This is a beautiful and pure girl. Yusus is a kind and wise old man. Regardless of poverty, he left two orphans to raise. His intelligence is also amazing, shining with the wisdom of working people. However, he has suffered from life and knows the way of the world. Under the persecution of evil forces, he had to give in to it. There is a deep affection between the three of them. They live together and love each other, and no one can live without anyone, and no one can live without anyone. This sincere feeling between them strengthens the tragic atmosphere at the end of the novel.
In sharp contrast with them are Queen Anne, Yue Se Anna and Sir David Dilly-Mo. They are cruel, overbearing, arrogant, shameless and morally corrupt. In order to satisfy their own selfish desires, they will do anything ugly. Let's take a look at a few examples: Queen Anne hates Yue Se Anna, and it's really gratifying to see her marry Gwen Alvin, a freak, regardless of sisterhood. Yue Se Anna and David Dilly-Mo don't want to get married because it is convenient for their dissolute lives. Yue Se Anna even lured Gwen Alvin to seek pleasure in depravity, which can only be explained by her dissolute and shameless abnormal psychology. When she finally learned that Gwen Alvin was her real husband, the woman who looked like a fairy and had a heart like a snake and scorpion immediately drove him away and told him that she hated him.
The romantic feature of the novel is also reflected in the writer's arrangement of the plot: the whole story is connected by many unexpected events. At the beginning of the novel, a lonely child was abandoned on the desolate coast, waiting for him only to die, but he escaped from the predicament. Such an opening strongly attracts readers. Especially from the second part of the fourth volume, Yue Se Anna's letter has brought anxiety to Gwen Alvin, and the secret in the gourd is floating at sea. Gwen Alvin suddenly became Sir Charles Crown. Seuss saw a coffin in prison and thought Gwen Alvin had been executed. Yue Se Anna met Gwen Alvin by chance, and Gwen Alvin accused the ruler of evil in parliament. When he was looking for relatives, he saw Omo, a German shepherd who was almost inseparable from Seuss, and so on. It's really a wave. This is another feature of this novel.
However, although Hugo truly described the face of an unequal society, he lacked an understanding of the nature of that society, so he did not reveal the class contradictions in the society at that time deeply enough and lacked a correct analysis. For example, when he portrayed the villain, he wrote a subordinate baker, Federow, as the first evil. It seems that Gwen Alvin's fate may not be so tragic, if there is no such character to show his intrigue. As for building the plot development too much on the occurrence of accidents, it would be too accidental and naturally dilute the nature of serious tragedy. In addition, the author's quotations and explanations are also more touching. These can be said to be the shortcomings of this work.
Content introduction:
The hero Gwen Alvin is the son of a British parliamentarian and the sole heir to property and title. In order to achieve ulterior motives, after his parents died, the king ordered him to be sold to traffickers. The trafficker disfigured the child's face and left an eternal smile on his face. He has been playing tricks with these people since he was two years old. 10 years old, in order to escape the severe punishment of the law, cruel child traffickers abandoned him on the Polish coast. The child went through difficulties and obstacles and rescued the blind girl Judy in the snow. Homeless Seuss adopted them. So they lived alone, making a living by busking, and living a wandering life. In the bitter life, Gwen Alvin and Judy, two people with bad karma, have a pure love.
Book review:
After the tragic history of Gwen Alvin's childhood was exposed, he resumed his knighthood. However, he hated the aristocratic society, denounced the crimes of the aristocratic class in parliament, and profoundly exposed that the nobles lived a drunken life, while the ordinary people lived a poor and miserable life, strongly criticized this evil society that ate people, and expressed the people's voices with impassioned voices: "This society is unreasonable, and a real society without survivors will come one day." Gwen Alvin left a life that did not belong to him and returned to his partner, while poor Betty was dying. Finally passed away. Gwen Alvin was heartbroken, committed suicide by jumping into the sea and took her most beloved person to another world.