Notre Dame de Paris (written in 1831) (also known as The Monster of the Clock Tower) is Victor Hugo's first major romantic novel. It is written with bizarre and contrasting techniques in a story that takes place in France in the 15th century: Claude, the vice-bishop of Notre Dame de Paris, is a moralistic and serpentine man, who first loves and then hates, and persecutes the gypsy girl Esmeralda. Quasimodo, the ugly but kind-hearted bell-ringer, sacrifices his life to save her. The novel exposes the hypocrisy of religion, proclaims the bankruptcy of asceticism, and celebrates the kindness, fraternity, and self-sacrifice of the lower-class working people, reflecting Hugo's humanitarian thought.
Victor Hugo is the leader of the French Romantic literary movement, and Notre Dame de Paris is his most famous Romantic canonical work. After reading this monumental work, each and every distinctive character in the book constantly surfaces in my mind: the pure and kind-hearted Esmeralda, the sinister and venomous Claude, and the debauched and merciless Forbes....... However, the character who impressed me the most is still the Notre Dame's bell ringer - Quasimodo. -Quasimodo. At the same time, Hugo's portrayal of Quasimodo also reflects the writing characteristics of the book Notre Dame de Paris.
Exaggerated description is one of the characteristics of this book. In "Notre Dame de Paris", Quasimodo has ugly to the extreme looks: geometric face, tetrahedral nose, horseshoe-shaped mouth, uneven teeth, one-eyed, deaf, hunchbacked ...... It seems that God has brought all the misfortunes on his body. Hugo with extremely exaggerated techniques to a world literature in the appearance of the ugliest character image vividly in front of the reader. This kind of exaggeration is not a "sickly moan", but a kind of padding. Hugo prepares the reader for the strong contrast in the following text through exaggeration.
Thus, the strong contrast becomes another feature of Notre Dame de Paris. Hugo's portrayal of Quasimodo is not only a simple "ugly monster", but he gives Quasimodo a kind of "beauty", a kind of implicit inner beauty. Quasimodo's appearance is ugly, but his heart is noble. He bravely rescued Esmeralda from the "tiger's mouth" of the feudal church, and saved the girl's life by "taking refuge in the temple". In Notre Dame, Quasimodo took care of Esmeralda in every possible way. This kind of selfless devotion is in sharp contrast to the inflated selfishness of the vice-priest. Hugo through the contrast, so that the protagonist diametrically opposed to the two personalities more prominent, caused the reader's strong **** Ming. At the same time, this "surface is not the same" flaw is also from a side to reflect the inadequacies of the society at that time - Quasimodo's "beauty" is not recognized, or even acknowledged. It is no wonder that Quasimodo would cry out in despair from the bell tower, "The heavens abhor me! Man is only supposed to look good on the outside!"
Speaking of "flaws," I think that "flawed beauty" is also one of the successes of Hugo's Notre Dame. Hugo's Quasimodo is by no means a perfect character: Quasimodo is adopted by Claude, the vicar general. For Quasimodo, Claude is his "new parent," and he only does what he is told. However, why does Quasimodo show a hint of "rebellion" against the Vicar when it comes to Esmeralda? --Why does Quasimodo have a "rebellious" heart towards Esmeralda, when the Vice-Priest will put her to death if he doesn't get her, while Quasimodo will protect her to the death? Is this because Quasimodo also recognizes Claude's dirty heart and the darkness of the power of the feudal church? I think it is a bit of a "stretch" for Quasimodo. He did it only because of his love for Esmeralda, which was a self-sacrificing and unrequited love, but in a way selfish. Otherwise, there would have been no battle between Quasimodo and the wandering beggars in Notre Dame. On this point, I understand that some people say that this is a failure of Hugo's portrayal of Quasimodo. But I think Quasimodo's "flaws" are what make him real -- he's not a god, but a man, an ordinary man.
Finally, the drama is one of the things that attracted me to Notre Dame de Paris. Quasimodo wears the wreath of the "King of the Uglies" to the jeers of the crowd; he protects Esmeralda to the death, but is an accomplice to the moralistic Claude; he has just watched the girl he loves marry the "gallows" from the bell tower, and then has to kill his own "second parents" again. As a romantic book, the dramatic scenes give us a heart-stopping shock, but also show the conflicts between the characters and their own hearts and souls to the fullest. A scene comes to life, I feel as if I were there.
Exaggerated descriptions, strong contrasts, successful portrayal of "flawed beauty", dramatic scenes, these writing features make Hugo's "Notre Dame de Paris" deservedly become a model of Romanticism
Notre Dame de Paris is the first large-scale Romanticism novel by Hugo. It is written in a bizarre and contrasting way, a story that takes place in France in the 15th century: Claude, the vice bishop of Notre Dame de Paris, is a moralistic and serpentine, who first loves and then hates, and persecutes the gypsy girl Esmeralda, while Gazimodo, the ugly and kind-hearted bell-ringer, sacrifices his life to save Esmeralda. The novel exposes the hypocrisy of religion, celebrates the goodness of the lower class working people, love, and the excellent quality of giving up one's life for others, and reflects Hugo's humanitarian thought. Its plot twists and turns, character character more conflictual, is a work rich in drama. And the historical background of Notre Dame de Paris also reflects the dark reality of the corrupt politics and power rule in the era of Louis XI, which made innocent people fall victims.
In 1482, the city of Paris, under the rule of King Louis XI, was immersed in the carnival atmosphere of April Fool's Day. In the square in front of Notre Dame, Esmeralda, a gypsy girl from Egypt, won the applause of the people with her beautiful face and graceful dance. She took the money that the people had given her as a reward, and gave it to the poor children, and said to them, "Take all this money, and go and celebrate the festival!" The children asked her, "What about you?" She said, "Leave me alone, I have a festival every day." -------- Yes, that's her Esmeralda .......
But, the gods of destiny set everything in motion at this time. Among the many spectators, a pale, middle-aged man, dressed in black clerical robes, hid behind a glass window and also peeped at Esmeralda dancing. He is Claude, the alchemist and deputy bishop of Notre Dame de Paris? Fullollo. When he saw the colorful gypsy singing and dancing, her brisk steps and exquisite dance suddenly awakened the lust he had buried in his heart for more than ten years. He was unable to control himself, unable to cast away the devil that had captured his soul. In order to get rid of the boredom in his heart, he went to the square to drive away the vendors who were hawking, saying that he would not be allowed to fool around in front of the church. And all this only for the sake of his disinterested psyche ........ These vendors did not take him seriously and attacked him. While this was going on, out of the church rushed a flush-looking, tall, powerful man, who pushed his way through the crowd and saved the priest. He was Quasimodo. It turned out that he was a deformed child abandoned by his parents in front of Notre Dame in Paris, and Furlough raised him out of pity, deafened by ringing the bells all day long. For the sake of devotion, it's not his fault. The merrymakers were looking for a "Pope of Fools", and Esmeralda took a shine to the deaf and ugly bell-tower monster, Quasimodo. He was crowned, robed, whistled, and paraded through the streets on a high palanquin. Quasimodo was happily blowing the whistle when he suddenly saw the grim-faced Fouro Lou standing in front of the palanquin. The priest knocked off his crown and dragged him back to Notre Dame. Why? Perhaps only for the unbearable humility!
Is it my fault that she is so beautiful? Is it my fault that she dances so well? Is it my fault that she can drive people mad?" He just couldn't help himself, "Go!" Yet this command changed her fate ..... Quasimodo, "Go get her!" The clock tower monster ran quickly to Esmeralda, picked her up and ran toward Notre Dame ...... An inescapable destiny ......
A cry of "Help!" sent her wandering through the "Miracle Dynasty". And at that time in that "miracle dynasty" under the rule of the "black language kingdom", the beggar king Klauban is trying to understand the cut and mistakenly into the "kingdom territory" of the poor poet dry fruit a. And in accordance with the rules of the dynasty, he only has a few days to go to the court of law. According to the rules of the dynasty, he has only two choices: to be paired with a noose, or to get married to one of the women of the kingdom. But none of the older women want him because they think he's too thin. Thus, Gangua is left to hang. In the nick of time, Esmeralda stepped forward and cried out, "I want him". Thus, the two were married on the spot. The kind-hearted maiden agreed to marry him, but only to save his life by taking him back to her home, where she fed and sheltered him, but did not share her room with him. At this point, if it were us, ask how many people would be willing to do this? How many people have such courage and guts?
And when we see Garcimodo, who committed the crime of forcibly robbing the people's women, was brought to the square for public flogging after a cursory trial. Kneeling in the blazing sun to suffer on behalf of the bell-tower monstrosity, his thirst was so great that he shouted for water to the soldiers and the crowd of onlookers, and was answered by a chorus of teasing and insults. At that moment, the beautiful Esmeralda, who had been a part of the crowd, brought the water to the mouth of Quasimodo. Heart full of gratitude of Gazimodo full of tears, could not help saying: " beauty ...... beauty ...... beauty ", and at this moment he made a lifelong promise.
See here, I should be happy or sad?
In the square, the poor poet helps Esmeralda put on a goat-recognition program. The goat picked up the name of Phoebus, the sun god, in a pile of Latin letters. At this time Phoebus is pandering to the queen and her daughter for favor in the royal palace next to the square. Princess Lily told Phoebus to go to the square and drive Esmeralda away to confirm his love for her. Phoebus rides to the square, loudly booms the entertainers who are performing, and whispers to the girl to book a rendezvous for tonight at the usual place. However this rendezvous, who knew that it would bring her endless darkness .......
The distraught Fulolu heard that the dry Goa and the girl to married, angry very angry, when they learned that they are only a nominal husband and wife, and then turned to happiness. He met the drunken captain of the guards Phoebus in the street, listening to him say that he is going to meet with the girl, and immediately said to discourage the girl is already married, but Phoebus retorted: "Why do you confuse love and marriage." And who should discourage whom? Is selfishness really the soul of mankind? Evil? Darkness? The gears are still turning quietly .........
For what? Did Quasimodo hide the girl in his own housing, sleeping like a daemon at the door of his room? And when Esmeralda, suddenly awakening, saw the face of Gazimodo, she was horrified. Quasimodo fled in a hurry and ran to the belfry and struck the great bell desperately with his own head, and the low bell chimed like a sob. Esmeralda came to him, and Gazimodo, covering his face with his hands, murmured, "My face is ugly and always frightening. "To comfort him, the girl danced for him with a cheerful rhythm. Excited beyond belief, Quasimodo rang the bell of Notre Dame for the girl with the weight of his body, as if he were on a swing. His hearty laughter fills the entire bell tower. Quasimodo flew around the bell tower on a rope, picking blooming flowers for Esmeralda. Love in the frozen season.
Suddenly the girl spots the captain of the guards in the square, she calls his name but he doesn't look up at her. She asked Gazimodo to go to him, but he, in order to get the princess's rich dowry and his domain in St. Paul's, did not care to listen to the girl's pleas and galloped away. The kind-hearted Quasimodo found that he had dishonored the girl's mission. And y remorseful ........
The girl's forced occupation of the unfulfilled Fulollo harboring hatred, kneeling to the king, asking for advice on how to solve the problem of the right of refuge in the church. The king consults an old scholar still in prison and finally decides that he can force his way into Notre Dame to capture the witch, regardless of the right of sanctuary. Quasimodo closed the doors of the church tightly while Fulollo was out. That transcendent love breaks through the darkness, but then locks itself deep into the gatehouse non .....
The beggar king Clauban heard that the right of refuge in the church will end, led thousands of Parisian vagabonds and beggars, came to attack Notre Dame de Paris, to rescue the sister in great distress, see how beautiful and kind she is! Who else would have come to her rescue? And unknown to the truth of how to allow these people rushed into the church, he from the roof of the building is still down huge stone stone, pouring hot metal liquid, trying to disperse the crowd. The kind of self-protection beyond the other people have to be impressed! Brave beggar finally broke through the door, rescued Esmeralda. Unexpectedly waiting for the king's soldiers have entered the church from the back door, raining arrows to Esmeralda and wandering sweaters. The beggar king was also killed in the melee. Blood was flowing as if it were a bloodstained paradise ........ Quasimodo stood on the roof of the building and watched in agony as his beloved girl was hung on the gallows again. When he realized that Furlough was grinning at Esmeralda from the belfry, he lifted the moralistic beast over his head and stilled it . An act of madness, a transcendent love that cuts eternity ........
The body of Esmeralda, freed from the gallows, was placed in the great burial cave of Monfugon, where Quasimodo, having found her, lay quietly beside her. Why doesn't the sky give a torrential ........ rain? Why? Why? Why?
Two years later, two corpses were found clinging to each other. When people tried to separate them, the bones turned to dust.
Esmeralda, not only has amazing beauty, but also has a noble and pure heart, beauty and goodness in her body combined so perfectly, so that she has a dazzling charm. Because of her amazing charm, she attracted the desire of the evil one, and because of her pure innocence, she was plunged into the disaster of love tragedy. The fact that she was hanged when she should have been God's favorite makes me feel the immense cruelty of those in power. Nonetheless, she was lucky to have someone who would always be there for her and never be alone.
Gasimodo, a church bell ringer unique in literary history. He was one-eyed, hunchbacked, rotund, and deaf, making him oddly ugly. However, he has a kind heart, willing to become the slave of the vice bishop for his nurturing, and would rather give his liver and brain in return for Esmeralda's drops of kindness. Although he harbors an extremely strong love for Esmeralda, he only guards her like a daemon and does not go to blaspheme her. When he witnesses the love of his life being mercilessly hanged, he is so helpless and desperate that he ends up going to the cemetery to be buried with her. His ugliness reaches the human extreme, but the profound human beauty shown in him makes him the most unique and touching artistic image in the history of literature. The beauty of his heart has completely covered the defects of his appearance, and he has become a model of goodness in people's minds. And how many of us are like that in reality?
Claude? Furolo, as a priest he must repress their own desires, it is this repression distorts his humanity, lust and jealousy ultimately caused his reason out of control, become a slave of their own desires, by the priests into the devil. Is this not the demise of feudalism?
Phoebus, the captain of the guards, looks handsome but is a snob, thinly veiled, in order to power and wealth at all costs to deceive, blasphemy, an innocent girl's love. He makes me feel shameful, abominable, detestable, hateful .........
Beauty and ugliness, good and evil, no longer have to argue ...... and the only thing is us?
Notre Dame de Paris is a masterpiece of Hugo's romantic novel, which was written under the influence of the 1830 revolution. The story of the novel is set in Paris under the rule of Louis XI in the 15th century, and expresses the anti-feudal theme of reality, and condemns the society that brought deep sufferings to Gazimodo and Esmeralda, and the novel is strong in romanticism, and is full of coincidence, exaggeration and grotesqueness that can not be in the real life. The novel is strongly romanticized and full of coincidences, exaggerations and grotesqueries that cannot be found in real life. The typical use of contrasting techniques is also one of the most successful parts of the work. The depiction of beauty and ugliness, good and evil in the book forms a sharp contrast, which is the core of Hugo's Romantic literary thought. The whole work from beginning to end reflects this principle of contrast, the use of this principle to form a thrilling plot, creating unusual characters, showing people a picture of light and darkness of the fight to the death.
This is a great work, a world classic.
Hugo believes that "the funny and ugly as the supporting role and contrast of the sublime and beautiful, to be considered as the richest source of art given by nature." Goodness is always accompanied by the presence of ugliness, reflected in the contradictions and sharp struggles, "Notre Dame de Paris" of the clean, is the representative of the beauty of the gypsy girl Esmeralda and the ugly representative of the vice bishop of Crowder of the conflict and the stark contrast to unfold. The tortuous process of Esmeralda's five successive shipwrecks and rescues is enough to constitute the basic plot of the story. With the development of the story, the author expresses four different kinds of love and the author's attitude towards truth, goodness and beauty through the contrast between the four men and Esmeralda as well as the self-contrast of the characters themselves.
This is a great classic of romantic pathos.
As far as artistic expression is concerned, tragedy, first of all, brings us the depression and shock of the mind, and brings us into the innate thinking about everything outside the subjective, and this kind of tragedy is undoubtedly sad and poignant. From the subjective
thinking way of artistic expression, the tragedy of Romanticism, even greater distance between us and the tragedy of time and space, so that we go to the aesthetic,
and also brought us closer to its psychological distance, in deterring us on the basis of our emotions with the art of the
process of the continuous raging and rushing, which is a kind of magnificent realm. For when we have not escaped the emotional slavery of art,
I revel in all forms of Romanticism. Such is the case with reading Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris.
If Les Misérables adds a lot of criticism of reality, Notre Dame de Paris is a masterpiece of pure romanticism. The two works were written in the context of the author's experience in France from Napoleon to the Restoration and then to the "July Revolution", "June Uprising" such a historical process, which is a kind of socio-historical responsibility of the writers, but at that time the capitalist system has just been established, there is no theoretical guidance on the root causes of the ills of capitalism (at least the authors have less contact with it), and they turned their attention to the history of the Middle Ages. The ugliness in society was witnessed by the writers, and the upheavals in society made the writers disillusioned with the capitalist society constructed by the bourgeois Enlightenment thinkers. The dark dictatorship did not allow writers to criticize the reality, and the repression of the society made the creation turn to the heart, and the style tended to be romantic. This is undoubtedly the historical background of Romanticism and likewise the socio-historical definition of Romanticism. Therefore, the dark and authoritarian era of French society (the ugly aspect) made the Romantic art (art is the essence of beauty) perfectly combined with ugliness and assumed the critical power in Romanticism, which Notre Dame de Paris embodied with the help of the form of tragedy.
First of all, there is the light love of Squire Fabi. Fabi is the only man Esmeralda has ever loved. Fabi is dashing, handsome and fit, when Gazimov hijacked Esmeralda, Fabi hero class saved her, based on the adoration of the hero, Esmeralda died in love with him. And Fabi? In reality, he is a light-hearted playboy, and his love for Esmeralda is just a playful, playful and possessive approach to women. For him, the beautiful but poor Esmeralda was never the girl of his dreams, and for his cousin, Ms. Fuleh, Fabi was in love with her famous family and dowry. So when Esmeralda fell innocent and was persecuted to death by the forces of darkness, Fabi did not even look at her and consummated his marriage with the noble lady. Thus, Fabi's handsomeness masked the emptiness and ugliness of his heart.
Gazimodo on Esmeralda's pure and inferior love, bell ringer Gazimodo appearance ugly: body disability, back hunchback, chest concave, protruding eyes, deaf, broken feet, its entire body is not a place an organ is normal, the author of the "bell tower monster" poured unlimited sympathy for its human nature, the light let people have a kind of The author pours infinite sympathy on the "Clock Tower Monster", and the glory of his humanity makes people feel a kind of ugly to the extreme but beautiful to the extreme literature. In such a crippled body to hide the most true and beautiful things, when he was taunted, insulted in Gray Bedford Square, thirsty and pure as an angel Esmeralda sent water to him, he "for the first time in his life shed a tear," then in the depths of the heart produced a most intense love, risking his life to save her, protect her, comfort her, take care of her. He risked his life to save her, to protect her, to comfort her, to care for her. His adoration for her may not seem to be accompanied from the outside, and he has a sense of inferiority inside, but it is his pursuit of the ideal, a spirit and quality of loyalty, gratitude, worship and dedication, the best emotion in the natural nature of human beings. If the love of the handsome Fabi is a false love, the love of the moralistic Crowder is animalistic, and the love of the vulgar and boring Gangovar is false, then the love of Quasimodo is a precious true love. Especially when realizing that he was used by Crowder and caused Esmeralda's death, he killed Crowder who gave himself up, which showed the justice of his humanity. Therefore, the image of Quasimodo is the most aesthetically pleasing of the many images in Notre Dame de Paris, where ugliness on the outside cannot drown the purity of the soul.
"Notre Dame de Paris" always runs through the color of romanticism, the beginning of the work, the use of a lot of ink to describe the Parisian scenery, such as Gothic architecture, etc., so that the reader's mood naturally transferred to the society, and then to the characters of the society. The novel portrays three main tasks: Claude, Quasimodo, and Esmeralda. In portraying Claude, the first thing that is reflected is the "love" for Esmeralda, which has an authoritarian color. And Jane. Eyre in St. John's love for Jane. Eyre, Claude's love is somewhat real yet alienated; Jane. Eyre's St. John is topped with God's aura, making love a utilitarian sacrifice to pander to God; his love is not ugly, rather he is kind and noble, or at least he is helpful. Claude in fact can not let go of their own identity, identity is always more important than love, religious asceticism precisely to cover up the desire, this religious veneer under the desire is more ugly, he attempted to use the power of despotism, the threat of hanging to submit to Esmeralda, this is the crown under the veneer of the soul of the ugliness, is more from the ugliness of the heart from under the behavior of the evil. Quasimodo and Claude, on the other hand, are in stark contrast, and in him, Hugo pours in a nearly complete aesthetic definition and connotation of ugliness. The characterization of Quasimodo is also an unlikely characterization in the 15th century, a reflection of the author's inner fictional character. Romanticism is undoubtedly the most appropriate form to reflect the inner conception of the subject; the extensive psychological descriptions are extremely romantic. The artistic power of Quasimodo's image is not only a reflection of the sublime spiritual beauty of the "neglected group", but also a very full image, both romantic and real. Quasimodo also has the vanity of being pushed as the "King of Ugly", and also briefly obeys Claude out of gratitude; but his love is so sincere, even hysterical, because of his nearly detached from the human society, that any of his emotional motivation is from the heart. Esmeralda, on the other hand, is the sublime beauty that the author affirms in the form of tragedy, like a wreath of flowers, beautiful and poignant; and she belongs to the damaged objects of the author's sympathy. The "white beauty" becomes a witch; she is strong, but it is impossible for her not to succumb to torture; she is full of childish and na?ve fantasies about love; even the final reunion of mother and daughter cannot last long. Her experiences are tragic throughout almost the entire novel.
Hugo reveals the inner contradiction between beauty and ugliness, good and evil, form and content, and soul and body by depicting the different contents and ways of love for Esmeralda by four people in different positions and different classes in a strong contrast. Notre Dame de Paris is a model for the use of Romantic art, the whole work is full of humanitarian passion, the publication of the novel, making Hugo's reputation even more far-reaching.
A great world classic.