Victor Hugo's social commitment in Tale of Centuries

In literature, commitment has motivated many of literary men and has caused them to react in different ways. A kind of commitment associatedwith social problems which has come to be known as social commitment has found a special standing among some of the authors. This kind of commitment that deals with the author’s responsibility to focus on people’s problems and express their sufferings and inspirations has been reflected in some of the works by Victor Hugo, the great 19th century French author. He describes the life situation of the people in the French community in most of his poetry and prose works and never fails to explain their problems and sufferings. In the present research paper, we have studied social commitment in one of his great works entitled “Tale of Centuries”, a work the major part of which has been allocated to people’s lives and the elaboration of their pains and sufferings.