В готическом романе «Человек, который смеется» Виктор Гюго затронул не только вопрос социального неравенства, но и человечности. Что значит быть человеком? Часто ли внешность является отражением души человека? Главный герой – Гуинплен, изуродованный еще в детстве, сумел сохранить чистоту души и сердца, и, преодолевая все тяготы жизни, выпавшие на его долю, осознает, что богатство не гарантирует тебе счастья, а истинная любовь слепа и не замечает внешних недостатков.
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Виктор Мари Гюго. Человек, который смеется / The Man Who Laughs. Уровень 4
Victor Hugo. The Man Who Laughs
URSUS
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THE COMPRACHICOS
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PORTLAND BILL
LEFT ALONE
ALONE
ON THE LAND
TROUBLED MEN ON THE TROUBLED SEA
SUPERHUMAN HORRORS
THE LAST RESOURCE
THE CHILD IN THE SHADOW
MEETING SOMEONE
THE AWAKING
LORD CLANCHARLIE AND LORD DAVID DIRRY-MOIR
DUCHESS JOSIANA
BARKILPHEDRO
BARKILPHEDRO IN AMBUSCADE
GWYNPLAINE AND DEA
TRUE EYES
THE BLUE SKY THROUGH THE BLACK CLOUD
URSUS AS TUTOR, AND URSUS AS GUARDIAN
BLINDNESS AND CLAIRVOYANCE
NOT ONLY HAPPINESS, BUT PROSPERITY
GWYNPLAINE’S DREAMS
GWYNPLAINE AND URSUS
RENOWN
THE PLAY IS ABOUT TO BEGIN
WHERE THE PASSER-BY REAPPEARS
HATRED
THE WAPENTAKE[33]
THE MOUSE AND THE CATS
A GOLD PIECE
SYMPTOMS OF POISONING
ABYSS
THE TEMPTATION OF ST. GWYNPLAINE
TO GRAVE
URSUS SPIES THE POLICE
A FEARFUL PLACE
BARON CLANCHARLIE
WHAT A GREAT SUCCESS!
TRANSFIGURATION
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WHAT THE MISANTHROPE SAID
WHAT HE DID
A PROPOSAL
HE IS DEAD!
THE TADCASTER INN WILL BE CLOSED
A PALACE
EVE
THEY RECOGNIZE, BUT DO NOT KNOW, EACH OTHER
THE SPEECH
A BROTHER
IN RUINS
THE NIGHT AND THE SEA
PARADISE
THE VOID
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Ursus and Homo were friends. Ursus was a man, Homo a wolf. It was the man who had christened the wolf: probably he had also chosen his own name. Man and wolf were partners at fairs, at village holidays, at the corners of streets, where people were ready to listen to idle gossip and to buy quack medicine[1]. The wolf, gentle and courteously subordinate, diverted the crowd. It is a pleasant thing to behold the tameness of animals. Our greatest delight is to see all the varieties of domestication parade before us. This it is which collects so many folks on the road of royal processions.
Ursus and Homo went about from cross-road to cross-road, from country-side to country-side, from shire to shire, from town to town. One market exhausted, they went on to another. Ursus lived in a small van upon wheels, which Homo drew by day and guarded by night. On bad roads, up hills, and where there were too many ruts, or there was too much mud, the man pulled fraternally, side by side with the wolf. They had thus grown old together.
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“Not so quick, you horrid glutton! Isn’t he a greedy scoundrel? In my time I have seen dukes eat. They don’t eat; that’s noble. They drink, however. Come, you pig!”
The boy did not hear. He was absorbed by food and warmth. Ursus continued his imprecations, muttering to himself, -
