The Story on The Hunch Back of Notre Dame
No, that's not Esmeralda. And it's definitely NOT Quasimodo. That's me!
The story about the "Hunchback of Notre Dame" is just a fiction.
The story revolves around a beauty-and-the-beast theme, in which the selfless love of the misshapen bell ringer Quasimodo is contrasted with the corrupt lust of the cathedral's archdeacon, Claude Frollo, for the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmeralda.
Although the style is realistic, especially in the descriptions of medieval Paris and its underworld, the plot is melodramatic, with many ironic twists. Anticlerical and anti-aristocratic, the novel shows the romanticist's love for medieval grotesquerie.
Victor Hugo wrote this story to create awareness for the cathedral. Because the cathedral at that time, was in a dangerous state of disrepair. The popularity brought about by his writing led to its restorations... up to what it now today.
In so doing, Victor Hugo succeeded in saving one of Paris's great monuments.
The story about the "Hunchback of Notre Dame" is just a fiction.
The story revolves around a beauty-and-the-beast theme, in which the selfless love of the misshapen bell ringer Quasimodo is contrasted with the corrupt lust of the cathedral's archdeacon, Claude Frollo, for the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmeralda.
Although the style is realistic, especially in the descriptions of medieval Paris and its underworld, the plot is melodramatic, with many ironic twists. Anticlerical and anti-aristocratic, the novel shows the romanticist's love for medieval grotesquerie.
Victor Hugo wrote this story to create awareness for the cathedral. Because the cathedral at that time, was in a dangerous state of disrepair. The popularity brought about by his writing led to its restorations... up to what it now today.
In so doing, Victor Hugo succeeded in saving one of Paris's great monuments.
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