"Notre Dame de Paris" focuses on Quasimodo, an ugly deaf man, who is adopted by Father Claude, a priest of Notre Dame de Paris, to work as a bell ringer in Notre Dame de Paris's bell tower.Father Claude appears to be decent in appearance, but is captivated by Esmeralda's beauty after he meets Esmeralda, a beautiful gypsy girl.
Later instructing Quasimodo to forcibly take Esmeralda captive, he is saved on the way by Forbes - the captain of the cavalry - and Esmeralda thus falls in love with Forbes. But Forbes was a flirt by nature. When Krode failed to take her captive, he held a grudge against Forbes and stabbed him, but he did not die.
After the incident, he blamed Esmeralda and sentenced her to death. Just as the execution was taking place, Esmeralda was rescued by Quasimodo, who hid Esmeralda in Notre Dame.
The mass of beggars rushes into the church to save Esmeralda and mistakenly fights with Quasimodo, who is strangled in the square by an army led by Crowder, who is outraged and throws Crowder to the ground from the top floor of the church, and finally commits suicide by caressing Esmeralda's body.
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The story of the novel Notre Dame de Paris is a romantic and poignant one, and its deep themes are even more intriguing. Hugo mentioned in the preface of his novel "Sea Laborer": "Religion, society and nature, these are the three major struggles of mankind", "Notre Dame de Paris" is made to indict the fatalism of religion.
Through the tragedy of Esmeralda, the novel exposes the darkness of medieval European society and attacks the evil power of the Churchable, especially, through the portrayal of the central character of Claude, the novel questions the rationality of religious doctrine and religious life.
In Hugo's writing, Vice Bishop Claude is, first of all, a representative of the evil forces of religion and the culprit of the tragedy of Esmeralda. The profoundness of the work is to write Claude as a victim of religious doctrine and religious life. As a "victim" of Claude, he was not born cruel and sinister, his character has a process of evolution.
As a teenager, Claude was a pure, kind-hearted man. However, as if fate had decided long ago, he was sent by his parents to become a priest at a young age. Both of his parents died when he was nineteen, and it became his unavoidable duty to raise his young brother.
This kind of life of two brothers depending on each other is the kind of flesh and blood that Claude felt in the world from the heart. And then later adopted the monster-like outcast Quasimodo out of love and compassion. Loving brother adopted Quasimodo are embodied in his human nature of the emotion of love a real natural expression.
It also embodies the spirit of Christian fraternity, which is highly unified with the natural love of humanity in Claude. However, the long religious life has mutated Claude emotionally-psychologically as an adult.
The long period of emotional restraint led to an imbalance in the entire psychological structure to the point of deformation and distortion. The arousal and frustration of love desire in the face of the angelic Esmeralda leads his character to evil after extreme distortion. Thus we can see the repression of human nature by religious life and religious teachings.
Claude Frollo is the personification of the evil forces of the medieval church and the victim of the religious life of the church. The novel exposes the hypocrisy of the medieval church through the portrayal of Claude, the personification of the evil forces of the church.
Through the depiction of Claude, who is the victim of religious life, the novel profoundly exposes the bondage of the medieval religious culture and education to human nature under the control of the church, and reveals the inhuman side of the church's life, thus demonstrating the skepticism about the rationality of the religious life, and the critique of the church and the religious doctrines.
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