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Essay Instructions: Compare/contrast the culture depicted in Les Miserables with the French culture of the same time period. Discuss social, political, economic,and legislative (crime/punishment) similarities and dis-similarities. Much of this should be done under the framework of a comparrison between Victor Hugo and Jean ValJean.

Follow MLA format. Minimum of six sources, though I would prefer at least eight. At least four of the sources must be other than internet.

Essay Instructions: You will need to write a short response paper for Les Miserables that does the following
1. Explain what a life changing event isand what makes them life changing.
2. Locate three events or situations from the novelthat were life changing.
3. Select a quote from each of these events and record it.
4. Following the quote, you need to explain what happens in this section of the novel. In other words explain whats goind on here. (Should be 3-4 sentences)
5.Tell why it was life changing and what it did for the character.
6 Conclude by telling in a paragraph or two what we learn from Jean Valjeans story in Les Miserables. What can we take away from the story.

Essay Instructions: Your essays on 4 different topics will be graded on your ability to synthesize a variety of course material, evaluating change over time and relationships among people, events, and ideas. Simply retelling what happened is not enough. Be sure to answer the question(s) asked and to support your answer with evidence from the books. When relevant, you must include specific evidence from "Les Miserables", "Notes on Nursing", and "The Calling of Katie Makanya". However, do not use any quotation from the books. Every essay on each question should be at least one full page.


1. Compare the religious messages of Victor Hugo (in Les Miserables), Florence Nightingale (in Notes on Nursing) and Katie Makanya (in The Calling of Katie Makanya). In what ways do the religious messages expressed in these works reflect the modern era in which they lived? In what ways does each of them use religion to reject or question modern ideas?

2. Industrialization made Britain into a superpower by the end of the nineteenth century. Describe the consequences of that for the rest of the globe.
Hint: Think of economics, politics, religion, arts, ideas, culture, etc.

3. Compare and contrast the roles of women in Les Miserables, Notes on Nursing, and The Calling of Katie Makanya. In what ways does each example represent modern Western ideals of gender roles (i.e., separate spheres), and in what ways does each depart from that modern western ideal?
Hint: Do not simply describe the three works, but arrange your essay around various ways in which the works are similar or different.

4. By the end of the nineteenth century, middle-class Europeans (and Americans) believed they had developed a normative society and culture that was the ideal for the whole world. Describe the characteristics of that ideal society. What methods did they use to spread their values, both at home and abroad? (Describe at least 4 characteristics of modern western society that they tried to spread among lower classes and in other countries.)

Essay Instructions: Please refer to Dissertationguidelineforfirstpart. uploaded word document for content format and guide. 3 subheadings to be included 1. Purpose Statement. 2. Introduction 3. Statement of the research Problem.

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Is there a figure or multiple figures in the novel that you think that could be a guide like a psychotherapist can be to a young man? Do an in depth Hermeneutic analysis where the audience would be psychotherapists working with young men. The intention is to offer psychotherapists working with young men an imaginal way of seeing the therapy process as informed by archetypal figures of Les miserables. Giving them a new way of thinking on how to work with young male clients. You can also include your own experience as a psychotherapist heuristically. Ideas can be taken from alchemy and other Psychoanalytic theories beside Jungian.

The Question for the dissertation:

A Hermeneutical/Heuristic Qualitative Dissertation. What my introduction would establish, address the first question “Who in Victor Hugo’s novel, Les Miserables acts as a psychopomp into the underworld?” and then you would go on: “How can these soul guides from Les Miserables inform psychotherapists guiding young men seeking initiation or guide them through the underworld? His fictional characters are soul guides. By the end of the introduction identify 4 or 5 of them (Jean Valjean, M.Myriel/the priest who helps Jean Valjean turn over a new leaf, Cosette, Fantine, (Marius and Cosette-The Lovers, Javert. How can this inform psychotherapist working w/ young men?

My personal transference to the dissertation study:

As a senior in high school, I was assigned to read Les Miserables and was deeply touched by the characters in the novel. I identified with Jean Valjean, the criminal who had survived abusive treatment as a result of the negative patriarchal system that oppressed and cast him away which I think is embodied by the character Javert in Les Miserables. I was wounded as a result of an abusive father and I too was often treated as a criminal in school and in my neighborhood. I my emotional state was a mess which I think is perfectly symbolized in the character of Fantine (the wounded neglected anima of a man).
My high school instructor, Mr. Castle (an embodiment of the priest in Les Miserbles) however was very supportive of me and did not treat me as a reject. He was unconditional. However I was still lost and could not find my way out of my depression and hatred toward others, until I underwent a spiritual initiation by a female meditation Master, Ching Hai (and embodiment of the Priest in Les Miserables). It was there that my heart opened up and I was able to change my ways and connect and pay more attention to my feelings which is what I think Cosette embodies for Jean Valjean.

Throughout the novel, Marius and Cosette fall in love and get married. This to my is the expression of the inner marriage between the feminine and masculine in a man.

With the adolescent males that I’ve worked with in therapy, each of these archetypal figures are prominent in the therapy and for healthy male development and individuation.

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