Progress & Limitations:Hugo's Contradiction and Struggle in The Year of 93
The Year of 93 is the last long work in Victor Hugo's life,based on his father's personal experience of the 1793 Republican Army's suppression of the Vendée Rebellion.By depicting the contradictions and struggles,it presents us with a vivid picture of the social landscape during the French Revolution.At the end of the book,it concludes with a dramatic questioning of which is more important,revolution or humanism.This article attempts to study Hugo's life experiences and ideological changes,and to analyze Hugo's contradictory and struggling attitude towards revolution in The Year of 93 in combination with class nature.