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¶ … religious themes of the three works mentioned, those being Les Miserables, Notes on Nursing and the Calling of Katie Makanya, are all fairly easy to see. A major fact about Les Miserables is that Jean Valjean spends a lot of time in jail for doing something relatively minor, stealing food to feed a starving family, and then this gets compounded three to four times over when Valjean tries to escape. In all, Valjean is in prison for nineteen years before being released. He is then treated like a leper by innkeepers because of his convict past. As the story progresses, there are some obvious themes relating to the law, the enforcement thereof and grace. There is a common theme from Valjean needing to be forgiven and allowed to gain redemption despite the past at hand but there is a common theme of people not doing that in the book. Javert's assertion that criminals never change and that breaking the law should be met with zero tolerance. Despite Valjean trying to escape his past, many in that era and that book hold that it is not that easy. The obvious point, or at least one of them, from Les Miserables is that Valjean was not treated fairly and even his original sin did not warrant the behavior and jailing he received even if what he did was technically against the law. The zero tolerance nature of his punishment was over the top.
Notes on Nursing speaks about religion in a way that bucks the trend of how nurses were perceived at the time and how they should do their job. Nightingale made references at differnet points about doing one's job even when the maddening din of events around a nurse demand or require otherwise and how doing's on job with Christian love should always win out. Lastly, Maknya said something similar of a black woman being resolute and committed to doing the Godly...
Katie even accepted the ideals of marriage, Christianity and so forth of the dominating European culture.
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Industrialization was certainly a game-changer for Britain and the world. Indeed, Britain controlled much of the world when industrialization came to pass. The impacts on things like economics, politics, arts, ideas and culture were all quite easy to see and imagine. For example, economics would be impacted by industrialization in the form of being able to produce more goods for domestic and trading purposes. With such a wide-ranging empire, the ability to better and more quickly supply all the British areas of control would be important. For politics, much the same implications would be necessary as a more completely supplied empire would be a happier empire and thus make it easier to manage and control. If areas are not supplied and set up properly, this would lead to unrest and vitriol. This eventually happened anyway, but the industrialization of the areas probably at least delayed it.
As far as religion goes, one could point to industrialization being a message and gift from God that helps feed, clothes and otherwise help the masses that live in the different British areas and colonies. The arts would reflect the industrialization of the British areas through the pictures and images that show the factories, the people working in their shops and workstations and people trading goods that were made or generated through industrialization. Ideas would be further generated to use and further take advantage of industrialization. The culture would change as the lesser amount of time needed to make things and products would lead to time being freed up for other endeavors.
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Regarding the facets and conditions that typify the "ideal" society in a Western culture, there are a few. Of course, the "ideal" Western culture of the late 19th century would be typified by earlier American (post Civil-War) and Europe at around the same time. There are two conditions and facets that could be seen in either Europe at the time, America at the time or both. First, there was a demand for rule of law and compliance with the government. Indeed, America had just emerged from the Civil War, even if it was still allowing for the disgusting treatment of blacks while the Jim Crow era was going on. Both Europe and American treated women like second-class citizens at the time as the suffrage movements. Indeed, the women's right to vote was not passed as an amendment to the United States Constitution until 1919.
The plight of blacks and women were still commonly bad in both Europe and the United States. Even if the laws supposedly freed and unrestricted their life, they were still both treated like second-class citizens that were expected to not make a lot of noise and fuss despite their being treated like a secondary citizen to the whites males that ruled over them. They spread this ideal through the imperialism (Britain, France and Spain in particular) as well as with the conquering and taking over of new lands in general (America). This was a means of control of not only the blacks and the females but also of the middle and lower class at the time. The social safety nets as we know them today (especially in America) did not exist and this allowed for a greater degree of control that could be exploited and taken advantage of.
Because of its strong ethical overtones and themes, Victor Hugo naturally gravitates towards imagery of light and darkness in Les Miserables. Light and darkness symbolize their respective moral poles, the binaries of good and evil, beneficence and maleficence, right and wrong. Drawing attention to ethical polarities helps the reader to better understand and appreciate moral ambiguity. The protagonist Jean Valjean epitomizes moral ambiguity, as the reader follows his journey from
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