The heroine Esmeralda is a kind and pure girl. She is compassionate and dares to sacrifice herself to save others. When Gringoire, a poet who sells literature for a living, was killed by mistake in the middle of the night in a gathering place of vagrants and beggars in Paris, she stepped forward and offered to marry him, putting the poet under her protection, even though she didn't love him. When quasimodo was flogged in the square under the scorching sun, she was the only one who expressed sympathy for the ugly bell ringer who hijacked her late at night.
She is warm and naive, thinking that the world is as pure as her, and she still maintains warm love for ungrateful Phoebe until her death; She has a strong character and would rather die than surrender in the face of Claude's arrogance. She is the darling of vagrants and beggars in Paris, but she is independent and innocent. Hugo put such a bright image on the gloomy background of the Middle Ages, and described how the society ruled by absolutism and the church was extremely rampant threatened and persecuted her like a huge net and killed her by horrible means.
The religious fanaticism of persecuting Bohemian girls, the vicious plot of teaching characters to satisfy despicable animal desires, and the cruelty and cruelty of authoritarian state machines are all described by Hugo in a romantic way as nightmare-like horror. Through this description, the author shows the darkness of feudal autocratic society and highlights the anti-feudal theme of his works.
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Notre Dame is the first large-scale romantic novel by French writer victor hugo. Rich imagination, grotesque plot and peculiar structure have become the important features of this novel.
The novel artistically reproduces the real history of the reign of French king Louis Xi in the15th century, how the court and the church colluded to oppress the people, and how the people fought bravely with the two forces. In the novel, Esmeralda, a gypsy woman and quasimodo, a disabled person with ugly faces, are presented to the readers as the embodiment of true beauty, while what people see in frollo, a vice bishop, and Phobos, an aristocratic soldier, is cruel, empty mind and sinful lust. The author organically links touching stories with vivid and rich drama scenes, which makes this novel extremely readable.
Notre Dame de Paris, as a masterpiece of romanticism, is precisely because the author strives to conform to the primitive nature and depicts the real life of medieval French society. In the form of superb techniques and romanticism, it is condensed and refined in this masterpiece, showing their distinctive characteristics and rich implications, and winning another victory for romanticism to break the rigid model of classicism after Ainani. This is an angry and tragic symphony of destiny.
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