Hugo was young and dumb and wrote some problematic and racist things about a place he had never visited but thought he could extend his european metropole views onto other europeans about the violent Haitian revolution. There's Bug-Jargal, described as the pure "noble savage" who also happens to be a hunky dude, and then there's the only love interest, Maria, who's also pure and virginal but basically some wacky metaphor of the virgin Mary??? Who rarely speaks and is just a hollow shell of a character????

To summarize: almost any colonial "literary" works written between 0 CE - 2018 CE by white people are full of imperialist capitalistic brainwashing nonsense.

Thank you for reading this dissertation.