By no means is this character an image of the people, as he is said to be by that bourgeois political intellectual, Victor Hugo.
He is a portrait of the bourgeois political intellectual, a man convinced his education, intelligence, and personal insight uniquely fit him for power amd fame, but born to smolder in a station of powerlessness and obscurity.
In an age and country where careers are not open to talent, he dies as soon as his lack of qualifications is exposed.
Reading Ruy Blas, by Victor Hugo, 1838.
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