The novel Notre Dame de Paris artistically reproduces the historical reality of the reign of King Louis XI more than four hundred years ago, how the court and the church were in collusion to oppress the people, and how the people fought bravely with the two forces. In this novel, Hugo made good use of the principle of contrast, which makes beauty more beautiful and ugliness more ugly. I am talking about one of the main characters here, Quasimodo, who also has his beautiful spirituality. In front of the beautiful Gypsy girl Esmeralda, he does everything he can, and he is another beautiful figure in this novel. I would say that Quasimodo also had his love life. Let's step into his spiritual world.
Gazimodo, with a tetrahedral nose, horseshoe-shaped mouth, one-eyed, hunchbacked, crippled, the height of his body is about the same as the width, the lower part is square, and his legs, when viewed from the front, look as if they were two scythes, with the handles of the blades joined to the hilt. In the midst of all his deformities there was an unquestionable firmness, seriousness, and bravery, and he was the bell-ringer of Notre Dame de Paris, Quasimodo. To us he really seems strangely ugly! It was such a man who had a close relationship with the beautiful gypsy girl Esmeralda.
The first face-to-face contact with the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda was due to the execution of the orders of his master and benefactor, Vice-Archbishop Fullo. Esmeralda's beauty left him unsure of what to do.
Fulolo has always been a puritan and shunned all worldly pleasures. But tonight he saw the dancing Esmeralda and immediately fell for her peerless beauty. The latent lust in him was like a beast that had been sleeping for many years suddenly awakening so that he lost all self-control. Although he knew that if he did not restrain himself, he would fall into an extremely terrible abyss, but the desire seems to be irresistible. He clearly saw two paths before him to choose from: either to possess her at all costs, or to put her to death in order to find peace in his soul. At this point, the first choice prevailed.
So Quasimodo went up to help Frollo to rob Esmeralda, but he came upon Vorbis, the captain of the king's archery guard, leading his soldiers through the neighborhood and arriving to rescue Esmeralda and capture Quasimodo.
Gasimodo and Esmeralda's second close encounter is Gazimodo kneeling on the carousel at the mercy of the whipping, has been shouting "thirst", thirsty Gazimodo shouted but no one cares about him. At this point, only to see the hand-held water canister Esmeralda set aside the crowd, walked up to the torture platform, the water to the mouth of Quasimodo. When the poor bell-ringer realized that this was the girl he had abducted last night, he could not help but burst into tears of shame and gratitude, perhaps for the first time in the life of this unfortunate man. Everyone was mesmerized by this moving sight: a beautiful, pure, charming, and frail maiden should thus look down upon a man so pitiful, yet unsightly and vicious, and the crowd on the stage, moved to do so, shouted their approval. Even Gazimodo's mouth kept shouting "beautiful", "beautiful"!
Gasimodo returned to Notre Dame as a bell-ringer after the penal code, and as the weeks passed, Esmeralda danced in the Plaza de la Bachovia, and Gazimodo admired her dance in the bell-tower of Notre Dame, with a tender, loving gaze in his eyes.
The third time he became close to Esmeralda was because Esmeralda was in a human life lawsuit. It was Vorbis, the captain of the king's close-guard archery team, who saved Esmeralda from an attempted hijacking in Quasimodo. Esmeralda, impressed by Vorbis's handsome looks and his kindness in rescuing her, finally agreed to go on a date with Vorbis. In the date, has been trailing behind Furby, Fulollo jealousy, sanity is gone, he fled from the room, with Esmeralda threw down the dagger into Furby's chest, jumped out of the window and fled. That the captain of the king's bodyguard should have been so poisoned caused an uproar in the royal inquisition. The Prosecutor was convinced that Esmeralda had colluded with the forces of Hell and, by virtue of her magic, had assassinated Vorbis. Esmeralda at first refused to admit it, but later confessed under torture to all the "crimes" of witchcraft, sorcery, prostitution, and the assassination of the captain of the guard. Her fate was to be sent to the gallows a few days later.
Just as the executioner was about to start, Quasimodo rushed out of the church, robbed the court, snatched Esmeralda, and took her into the church, the only place where she was not subject to the law. And in a terrible voice he called out, "Holy ground!" At the sight of this feat, a cheer broke out among the crowd, who were moved by the passion of Quasimodo. What a touching thing it was: a man so ugly protecting a maiden so unfortunate, two extremely unfortunate people so saving and helping each other.
From then on, Quasimodo became a devoted friend of Esmeralda. He had a pure love for her and was willing to go through fire for her. In the church, Esmeralda and Gazimodo are in each other's presence, always protecting her safety, and resolutely protecting her when Foulo Lou wants to desecrate Esmeralda again. From then on, the open space of the church more than a pair of figures, Quasimodo try to coax her happy, Quasimodo at one point was very joyful in a few bells swinging around, I think, this is the most joyful time in his life to ring the bells. Looking at the bells jumping around, I felt happy for him, the bell ringer ushered in his bright spring.
But the good times don't last long, soon, the Inquisition threatened to church sanctuary can't be desecrated by witches, to ignore the right of asylum to be arrested. The Parisian vagabonds and beggars heard of this, and under the leadership of Clopan, came one night to attack Notre Dame de Paris and rescue Esmeralda. The deaf Quasimodo did not know the intention of the subjects of the "miracle dynasty", and fought alone to prevent the vagabonds and beggars from entering the church. At that time, Garcimodo is really smart, can think of ways to think of, I dare say, at that time, Garcimodo is a hero, but in the end, Esmeralda still did not escape the end of the tax death. I y feel sorry for Esmeralda, a young beautiful life is so by the court and the church together to the murder, death is so tragic, let a person can not help but shed tears of sympathy for it.
Gazimodo, realizing that Esmeralda was missing, looked around anxiously and ran up to the top floor of the church. When he realized that the director of the scene was Fulvio, he pushed his "benefactor" down from the top of the building in a fit of rage. Frollo fell like a falling tile onto the street stone, and lost his human form. The day after Esmeralda was hanged, her body was taken away. After that, Quasimodo disappeared. Two years later, two bodies were found clasped together in the crypt of Falcon Hill, a male body with a curved spine apparently disabled. When people tried to separate the two bodies, the bones immediately turned to dust.
Seeing the end, that one picture stayed in my mind forever, lingering for a long time. Is this the strangely ugly bell-ringer Quasimodo? Unexpectedly, and Esmeralda's night and day companion is not always coveted by her vice bishop Fullo, nor is Esmeralda has always been in love with the nobleman soldier Furbis, Fullo and Furbis is filled with cruelty, empty heart and sinful lust, only Gazimodo has always been y infatuated with Esmeralda, and for her to do what he can do and can not do. At this point in time, Quasimodo was surprisingly perfect in my eyes, his image immediately became taller in my eyes and slowly turned into a great man, who can say that Quasimodo is not beautiful?
In conclusion, I would say: rest in peace, Quasimodo, I can understand you!