The lines from the poem that best develop the theme that those without debt to others can live the most honestly is:
<u>D. “And looks the whole world in the face, I For he owes not any man."
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According to the excerpt from "The Village Blacksmith", the narrator told us the story of how the villagers lived together and how some of them lived dishonestly because they were indebted in some way.
Furthermore, we are told that people in the village who are without debt live more honestly and this is shown from the dialogue where a man is said tobe able to look the world in the face because he does not owe anybody.
One of the main ways in which each main character represents another facet of Hugo’s view is that each character comes from very different backgrounds, meaning Hugo is able to use multiple "lenses".
