Victor Hugo Research Paper

The gothic period is remembered for its artistic conventions as the architecture and the literature. That period was one the longest and complex periods of the history of humanity, it was between the 12th and the 15th centuries, but it has a very huge influenced on romantic works of the 19th century. Many facts affected this time, the bubonic plague which reduces the population of the world nearly to it half, also the influence of the Roman Catholic Church which was the most important patron during those times. As result of it, the art of this period was most Hellenistic which means that it was more tragic, passionate and dramatic, which are the same conventions of the romantic period that were marked by the horror of the French Revolution …show more content…
In addition, one of the most transcendental writers of Romantic period was Victor Hugo. He born in France in 1802, He studies laws but he decided to quit his job and became a writer. (Editors)Among of his works we can find “ Les Misérables” where he describes the society behavior after the French Revolution, also he wrote about how the situation of the country made people less kindness and how it promote people to do bad thing instead of developing a society with good actions. He called those miserable people victims of the system, the true innocents people were guilty and the truly guilty was left. He describes the society as corrupt and responsible for creating the darkness among the population. (ADI31415). Another literary work done by Victor Hugo is “ The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”. The plot is set in the streets of Paris near to the cathedral of Notre-Dame. Quasimodo who is a hunchback life at the top of one of the towers …show more content…
It was written by an English author Mary Shelley. The story tells us about the ideas of a unordinary scantiest who believes that he could create live as god did it. Victor Frankenstein is a young inventor who created a grotesque creature after several years of researchers, the public opinion of his creature and also of him was very associated with Satanism and darkness. This story was influenced by the gothic and romantic movement, also is one of the first fiction novels and also the ancestor of modern terror works. This work primary describes the danger of science, as part of the war between religion (Frankenstein) . Nowadays, this story has been projected on the big screen several times, also associated with another terror story Dracula. It was written by Bram Stoker who was an English author. Dracula is the story of the legendary count who is a vampire, the story tells us the intent of Dracula to move from his castle in Transylvania to London to find new victims and to spread the curse. The battle between Dracula and Abraham Val Helsing takes place in England where the vampire was destroyed. (Dracula) The exceptional work done by Stoker have defined the of vampires that have been portrayed in many films and tv shows, always with some kind of association with Frankenstein, a good example of that fusion is the movie, Val Helsing. Both stories share some of the same