Synopsis
Cassimodo, a foundling, was discovered at the gates of Notre Dame on the first Sunday after Easter, Cassimodo Day. Being strangely ugly and hideous in appearance, there were many onlookers at the time, but no one was willing to adopt him. It so happened that Claude Frollo passed by and saw the baby abandoned on a wooden rack, and he immediately remembered his poor brother, with whom he had been dependent since childhood, and felt compassion, and took the baby away.
Floro was determined to raise the baby. He named the baby Quasimodo, adopted him as his son, and made him stay in Notre Dame as a bell ringer. Tragically, Quasimodo was born one-eyed, hunchbacked and lame, and at the age of fourteen became deaf after the bells ruptured his eardrums.
Originally, the only gateway to the outside world opened for him was closed forever, and this closure also cut off the light of his only joy, and his soul from then on fell into the infinite darkness of the night, and he began to become perverse, crazy. The discrimination, mockery and ridicule of the people around him made him hostile to everything.
Only one person was excluded from all the malice and hatred, and that was Claude Frollo. Rejected by society since his childhood, Quasimodo sees Claude as his benefactor, and respects the vicar-general so much that he takes him at his word. But in fact, this dignified vice bishop is in fact a snake heart, is a true hypocrisy, treachery, and lustful man.
"April Fool's Day" day, wandering gypsy artists in the square performance of songs and dances, one of them called Esmeralda's gypsy girl is more attracted to the pedestrians' attention, she looks beautiful and beautiful, dance is very beautiful, so that everyone marveled at. At this time, her performance also attracted the attention of Notre Dame's vice bishop, Claude.
He, like the others, was instantly enamored of the beautiful Esmeralda, and with the fire of lust burning within him, he fell madly in love with her. Crowder, who wanted Esmeralda, ordered Quasimodo, the church bell-ringer, to snatch Esmeralda from him. Quasimodo, who has always been very trustworthy, does as he is told, and follows the gypsy girl all the way to prepare for her abduction.
The wandering poet Grangual saw Esmeralda's performance in the street and was also attracted by her beauty, and unknowingly followed her into the alley, where he bumped into Quasimodo, who had come to kidnap the Gypsy girl. Grangual steps forward to stop her, but is knocked unconscious by the strong Quasimodo. Quasimodo picks up the girl and prepares to go back and hand her over to the Vicar General, when Phoebus, the captain of the palace archery team, arrives at the sound, saves Esmeralda and arrests Quasimodo.
This act triggered the maiden's love, and the beautiful girl was so impressed by the handsome young captain of the exterior that she fell y in love with him at first sight. But in fact Esmeralda was deceived by his appearance. Phoebus was in fact a heartless, pleasure-seeking, frivolous and shallow fellow.
The knocked-out Gran Guerre then slowly woke up, and in a trance, broke into the bizarre beggar's kingdom - "Miracle Dynasty". There is full of social discrimination by the scoundrels and beggars. The fearful Grangwal was caught by three strong men in front of the "king". The beggars, who have long suffered from the mean treatment of the "decent citizens", insist on retaliating in the same way, and decide to hang the trespassing poet.
And his only chance to get out of danger is to marry one of the women there, so as to become a member of the beggar's kingdom, the unlucky Grangwal pleaded with several girls were unsuccessful. The beggars are preparing to execute the occasion, Esmeralda appeared, out of sympathy, in order to save this stranger who has never met, the good gypsy girl voluntarily accepted Grangual as her husband, so that he was spared from death.
Meanwhile, poor Quasimodo is punished for his kidnapping by being victimized on his behalf. After a farcical trial, the bell-ringer is sentenced to be flogged in the center of the square. On the day of the execution, he was tied to a pillar of shame and subjected to flogging in the hot sun. The pain and thirst of Quasimodo cried out for water, but the crowd of onlookers had no sympathy for him, instead they all laughed at him as if he were watching a circus performance, gloating, and pelting him with stones and jars.
His adoptive father, the culprit, Floro, passed by and walked away as if he hadn't seen it. But then the kind-hearted Esmeralda appeared, and instead of blaming and ridiculing Quasimodo for his kidnapping like everyone else did, she got water and fed it to him, regardless of her past behavior. Esmeralda's behavior touches Quasimodo. The bell-ringer was ugly on the outside, but pure and noble on the inside. He was very grateful to Esmeralda and fell y in love with her.
Naive Esmeralda falls in love with Phoebus at first sight and goes on a date with him. On the day the two agreed to meet, Vice Bishop Crowder quietly tailed them. Out of jealousy and vengeance, Crowder stabbed Phoebus with a knife. The overly frightened Esmeralda fainted immediately, and Crowder immediately fled and framed the poor girl for the crime. Thus, the innocent Gypsy girl was arrested for murder, and she, still believing Phoebus to be dead, was also plunged into immense agony.
At her trial, Esmeralda, of course, refused to admit to the crime, but was beaten into submission, and, unable to bear the torture of the "iron boots," confessed to the crime, and was sentenced by the court to be hanged. That night, the real culprit of the case, the sinister Crowder, came to the prison and expressed his love to poor Esmeralda, and took her away as a condition to force Esmeralda to give in, but the girl flatly refused.
The next day, as Esmeralda was being escorted to the execution ground, she saw Phoebus, who had been so affectionate to her, standing coldly by the side of the road with a woman, looking unconcerned. The blow was so severe that she almost fainted. At this point, Quasimodo, the clock tower monster who had been quietly in love with her, stepped forward, robbed the court, rescued Esmeralda from the gallows, carried her into Notre Dame de Paris to be sheltered, and took good care of her. The sinister Crowder, still not dead to Esmeralda, found the key to the girl's room and snuck into the house in the middle of the night ready to rape Esmeralda.
In the nick of time, the girl blows the whistle Quasimodo gave her. The bell-ringer arrived in time to throw the infiltrator out of the house in the darkness. In the moonlight, he realized with a jolt that the man who had attempted to insult Esmeralda was the man he had always respected as Vice-Archbishop Crowder. Annoyed, Crowder left in a huff, jealousy growing stronger in his heart. He resolved to destroy the girl if he could not have her for himself.
The court, enraged at the news of the condemned man's robbery, and provoked by the church, threatened to capture the maiden, and sent officials and soldiers everywhere to search for her. When the beggars heard the news, they all came to the rescue, deciding to storm Notre Dame to rescue Esmeralda and kill Quasimodo.
When King Louis XI learned of the real purpose of the riot, he issued an edict to "kill all the civilians and hang the witches," and resolutely suppressed the riot, which resulted in a sea of blood in front of Notre Dame and all around. Esmeralda was sleeping when the scoundrels laid siege to the main church, and woke up to see two men in black standing in front of him.
One was her "husband", Grangual, while the other remained silent and led them to the beach to take a boat. After docking, Grangual left with the girl's goat, while Esmeralda was dragged by the stranger on a wild goose chase to the gallows in the center of the square. The stranger lifted his hood, and it was then that the girl recognized that it was none other than Vice-Archbishop Crowder, who had repeatedly attempted to violate her. The deputy bishop made a final threat to Esmeralda: to choose between herself and the gallows.
After another rejection, he leaves the girl in the care of a cloistered nun and goes to the Praetorian Guard to inform on her. The elderly cloistered nun inadvertently realizes that the beautiful girl in front of her is the daughter she has been searching for for 15 years. The army arrived at that moment, led by Phoebus. In the confusion, the mother died after hitting her head on a stone slab, while the innocent girl did not escape. And the innocent girl did not escape hanging in the end.
Casimodo, realizing that Esmeralda had disappeared, searched anxiously around, remembering that only the vice-priest Crowder had the key to the staircase leading up to the tower; he remembered the vice-priest's surreptitious attack on the young girl that night in the darkness; he remembered the details of the details of the thousands of details, and concluded that Esmeralda had been abducted by the vice-priest. But for a long time he had had such reverence for the priest that his gratitude, admiration, and love for the man had been stamped into his heart.
Doubt, disappointment, pain, all sorts of feelings were tangled together. It was at this time that he spotted Crowder and trailed him to the top of the tower, where he saw Esmeralda hanged with his own eyes. The heartbroken Quasimodo understood everything, and in a fit of unbridled rage, he pushed the hypocritical, evil vicar-general from behind with all his might from the top of the tower of Notre Dame.
About two years later, two skeletons were found in the crypt where the condemned man was buried. One belonged to a woman, and the other had crooked bones and was holding the female corpse in a peculiar position. When people tried to separate him from the skeleton he was cradling, he suddenly turned to dust.
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Notre-Dame-de-Paris is a full-length novel written by the French literary figure Victor Hugo and first published on January 14, 1831.
Notre-Dame-de-Paris is a novel by Victor Hugo.
Notre Dame de Paris is a story written in the 15th century in France with bizarre and contrasting techniques: Claude, the vice-bishop of Notre Dame de Paris, is a moralistic and serpentine man, who loves before he hates, and persecutes the gitzo girl Esmeralda. The ugly but kind-hearted bell-ringer Quasimodo sacrifices his life to save her. The novel exposes the hypocrisy of religion, proclaims the bankruptcy of asceticism, and celebrates the kindness, love and self-sacrifice of the lower-class working people, reflecting Hugo's humanitarian thought.
Theme of the work
Notre Dame de Paris is a tragedy in which the good innocents are destroyed and persecuted under the authoritarian system. The heroine, Esmeralda, is a kind and innocent young girl who is compassionate and dares to sacrifice herself to save others. When the poet Grangual, who sells literature for a living, was killed in a Parisian gathering of vagabonds and beggars late at night, she stepped forward and expressed her willingness to marry him, putting the poet under her protection, although she did not love him. When Quasimodo was scourged in a sun-baked square and cried out in agony from thirst, she alone expressed sympathy for the bell-ringer, who was hideously ugly and who had abducted her late at night.
She was passionately naive, thinking the world as pure as she was, and remained passionately in love with the heartless Phoebus to the end of her life; and she was so steadfast that she would rather die than give in to Claude's tyranny. She is the favorite of Parisian vagabonds and beggars, but self-reliant and innocent. Hugo put such a bright image on the eerie and dark background of the Middle Ages, depicting how that society, ruled by absolutism and extremely rampant church power, like a huge net of coercion, persecution, and put her to death by horrifying means.
The religious fanaticism of the Bohemian maiden as the object of persecution, the diabolical intrigues of the ecclesiastical characters for the satisfaction of their vile animal desires, the savagery and brutality of the despotic state machinery, all these are depicted by Hugo in a romantic style as horrible as a nightmare. Through such a description, the author shows the darkness of the feudal absolutist society and highlights the anti-feudal theme of the work.
The book was written to describe the word "destiny", and Hugo sought the true meaning of destiny. Whether it is Claude or Quasimodo, they are ultimately people of society, their inner division and conflict, reflecting their time between theocracy and human rights, ignorance and knowledge, between the huge heavy dark system and the struggle of the fragile individual, finally leading to the tragedy of the tragic end of the sacrifice of all the characters.
Author's Biography
Victor Hugo (February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885), a French writer, a representative writer of positive romantic literature in the early nineteenth century, a representative figure of humanism, and an outstanding bourgeois-democratic writer in the history of French literature, has been described as the "Shakespeare of France". In his life, he wrote many poems, novels, plays, various essays and literary criticism and political essays, and had a wide influence in France and the world.
In 1802, Hugo was born in Besan?on, France, on the two older brothers. 13 years old and older brother into the boarding school, brothers become student leaders. At the age of 16, Hugo was able to write outstanding poetry, and at the age of 21, he published a collection of poems, which became famous. 1845, King Louis-Philippe granted Hugo a seat in the House of Lords, and from then on, he concentrated on politics. 1848, the February Revolution broke out in France, and King Louis of France was abdicated.
Hugo went around advocating the revolution during this period, and contributed a lot to the people, winning the respect of the new **** and the political system, he was promoted to the rank of count, and was elected as a national representative and a member of the National Assembly. Three years later, Napoleon III became the emperor, Hugo attacked this, so he was banished abroad. In 1870, France restored the **** and system of government (the Third **** and State of France), Hugo also ended his exile and returned to France. 1885, Hugo died, held a state funeral in Pandora.
Hugo's creative process of more than 60 years, his works include 26 volumes of poetry, 20 volumes of novels, 12 volumes of plays, 21 volumes of philosophical treatises, a total of 79 volumes. His masterpieces include the long novels Notre Dame de Paris, Ninety-Three Years and Les Miserables, and the short stories include The Shipwreck of the Normandy (known as The Captain in the seventh lesson of the sixth grade book of the Su-Teachers' Edition for elementary school students).
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