The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a tragic romance about a young deformed man

named Quasimodo, and his troubles with love, and his master. The story starts in 1482 in

Paris. The Festival of Fools is taking place and Quasi is crowned the Pope of Fools, for

being so ugly. When Claude Frollo, Quasimodo’s master, sees him at the procession, he

immediately tells Quasi to go back with him. A man named Gringoire sees Esmeralda, a

beautiful gypsy, performing he instantly falls in love with her. He decides to follow her and

then he sees her being attacked by Frollo and Quasimodo. He tries to help , but Quasi

knocks him out, as Frollo escapes. Quasi is captured by the police, who are led Phoebus,

and is sentenced to two hours of torture. Esmeralda falls in love with Phoebus, and this

makes Frollo extremely jealous. He follows them one night, and stabs Phoebus, then

escapes. The police arrest Esmeralda for the murder of the police captain, even though he

is not actually dead. She is sentenced to death. Quasi saves her by taking her to the

Cathedral and claiming sanctuary. Frollo comes up with a plan to take Esmeralda, and

succeeds. Esmeralda is hanged, and when Quasi finds out, he kills Frollo and disappears.

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No one actually knows anything about him except for Frollo and Esmeralda. Frollo’s

brother Jehan is a terrible student, and is a drunk and an addicted gambler. If he would have realized that the more

he wanted Esmeralda to love him, the more it caused her pain and suffering, he would

have been much better off. He is the antagonist of the story, although he is not the

stereotypical bad guy. So since Frollo cannot teach either of the two

people he is closest to, he becomes depressed, and deems himself a failure. They know nothing of him either, and just infer what they

think is true. ater, when a gravedigger comes across Esmeralda’s remains, he finds a

skeleton of a hunchback wrapped around her. People judge others by what they look

like on the outside, but take no time to get to know them and see what they are really like. Quasimodo

is deformed, ugly, and despised by society, but he is the kindest character in the book. At the Festival of

Fools, when he told Quasi to come with him, he automatically went, and did not argue. However hard he tries, he can not win her over. People assume that he is an honest and truthful

man, just because he is a priest.

CHARACTER ANALYSIS

Claude Frollo is a static character.

Claude Frollo can be characterized as a childish control-freak. One example can be

compared to the theme.

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