By Victor Hugo, Isabel Roche
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One of the 1st nice novels of the Romantic period, Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame has delighted generations of readers with its powerfully melodramatic tale of Quasimodo, the deformed hunchback who lives within the bell tower of medieval Paris’s most famed cathedral.
Feared and hated through all, Quasimodo is sorted through Dom Claude Frollo, a stern, chilly priest who ignores the bad hunchback within the face of his widespread public torture. yet anyone steps ahead to help—the appealing gypsy Esmeralda, whose unmarried act of kindness fills Quasimodo with love. Can the hunchback shop the stunning gypsy from Frollo’s evil plan, or will all of them perish within the shadows of Notre Dame?
An epic story of attractiveness and disappointment, The Hunchback of Notre Dame portrays the sufferings of humanity with compassion and power.
Isabel Roche teaches French language and literature at Bennington university. She focuses on the nineteenth-century French novel.
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The cruelty, superstition, and barbaric ways that govern medieval Paris are mirrored and magnified in this city within the city, presided over by its own ruffian leaders. This group is characterized by its dynamic aspects, by a constant state of motion, yet motion in no way signifies movement in a forward direction or, figuratively, evolution; on the contrary, this group is equally defined by its inherent confusion and blindness. Just as its chosen 舠Pope of Fools,舡 Quasimodo, is only 舠partially made,舡 the vagrants are without any kind of ideological shape: They are ruled entirely by instincts of base survival and by their own self-interest.
At the very heart of the vagrants舗 defeat is a chaos rooted in the breakdown of any common linguistic understanding (舠There was an awful howl, intermingled with all languages, all dialects, all accents舡 [p. 410]). Indeed, in an ironic twist that highlights their inability to communicate, the vagrants and Quasimodo work at cross purposes, each believing the other to be the enemy. The vagrants舗 capacity to bring about change is dormant, and those not killed in the assault on Notre Dame are quickly brought down by the king舗s men.
The squad of men who had him in charge were assisted by the captain of the watch in person, wearing the arms of France embroidered on his breast, and the city arms on his back. (page 188) Š 舠Come and see, gentlemen and ladies! 舡 (page 219) Š The people, particularly in the Middle Ages, were to society what the child is to a family. 舡 (page 244) Š The cathedral seemed somber, and given over to silence; for festivals and funerals there was still the simple tolling, dry and bare, such as the ritual required, and nothing more; of the double noise which a church sends forth, from its organ within and its bells without, only the organ remained.