1. A certain intimacy united the bell-ringer to this church. The twin calamities of unknown birth and strange appearance had long since isolated him from the world; he had been secluded from his childhood in a double bondage from which it was difficult to extricate himself; the poor unfortunate man had grown accustomed to seeing nothing of the outside world in the religious barriers that sheltered him, and, as he developed and grew up, Notre Dame was to him the egg-shell, the nest, the home, the homeland, and the cosmos.
Appreciation: Initially, Gazimodo's appearance seems to cast an ugly shadow on the reader. His one eye, his deafness, his hunchback, his enormity and ugliness all gave me a preconceived notion of him as the arch-villain. When he was a baby, he was an ugly duckling that everyone wanted to burn to death; when he was a young man, he was a "King of Fools" that everyone spurned. His face seemed to predestine him to be the devil incarnate.
At a later stage, it was only later that I saw his clear, noble soul. He was loyal to Claude, who had enslaved him like a slave, and what a love as fierce as fire he had for Esmeralda, who had been kind to him, taking care of him with all his life and going through fire. He suffered all the discrimination and bullying in the world, yet he was contented and hardworking as his bell ringer.
Gazimodo is a poor outcast, and his adoptive father is "only the love of books", after nineteen years of only with the books, heard that the plague spread in the home to go back, to see the little brother is also an orphan. He had a unique and passionate affection for his little brother, and adopted Gazimodo as a result.
2. She was not tall, but her graceful figure stood out and looked as if she were tall. Her hair was slightly brown, but one could imagine that it must have shone beautifully golden in the sunlight, like that of the Roman and Andalusian women. Her small feet were also Andalusian, small and comfortable in their fine shoes.
She danced and twirled on an old Persian carpet laid casually at her feet, her large dark eyes flashing toward you whenever her glorious image passed before you.
Appreciation: physical description, which is the heroine of the book, the most beautiful ink are poured into Esmeralda: she is beautiful, because she has a naive and innocent face; she is kind because her heart is full of compassion and love. She could have married Gangowa to save his life, she gave water to the hungry and thirsty but unheeded bell ringer ...... She had a heart like a bodhisattva's that no one else could match, she had the beauty of the world, she was the embodiment of goodness and beauty.
3. This ugliness inspired Claude's sympathy more and more, and he vowed in his heart that for the love of his little brother he would bring up the boy, and that in the future, in case little Ruowang should commit any sin, he could make amends with this good deed, which had been done only for his sake.
Appreciation: Vice Bishop Claude Vourolot made all kinds of threats and even framed Esmeralda, but also did not hesitate to play dirty tricks to take advantage of his son Gazimodo and his student Gangowa. Seeing that he could not realize his evil intention of possessing Esmeralda in any way, he finally sent the lovely girl to the gallows with his own hands. In contrast, if Gazimodo's appearance is ugly, Claude's heart is even more contemptible.
4Once within the walls of Notre Dame, the criminal became inviolable, and human jurisdiction was not allowed to collapse into its gates.
Reward: On the day of the execution, Gazimodo robbed her to Notre Dame, for at that time holy ground was inviolable.
5. Suddenly she saw another head sticking out of the head of Phobos, a greenish, spasmodic face and a demonic gaze, and beside that face a hand holding up a sharp knife. It was the face and hands of that priest.
Appreciation: This paragraph describes the end of the private meeting between Vorbisdor Shaddobel and Esmeralda, and sets the stage for the following passage in which the Vice Bishop, Claude Vourolot, will stop at nothing to "love" her, allowing him to vilely and perversely abduct her, and to kill her out of "love". love" into hatred to bring her to her death.
Expanded:
Notre Dame de Paris is the first major romantic novel by French author Victor Hugo. The novel is set in 15th century Paris during the era of Louis XI. Hugo said of Notre Dame de Paris that the book "has, if it has any merit at all, in its imaginative, variegated, fanciful aspect." The rich imagination, grotesque plot, and peculiar structure become the important features of this novel.
The book was written to narrate the word "fate", and Hugo, the great humanist, sought the true meaning of fate. Whether it is Crowder or Quasimodo, they are ultimately social beings.
Their inner division and conflict reflect the division and conflict between theocracy and human rights, ignorance and knowledge in their time, and between the huge and heavy dark system and the struggling and fragile individuals, which finally leads to the tragic end of the tragedy in which all the characters are sacrificed.
The novel artistically reproduces the real history of the reign of King Louis XI more than four hundred years ago, how the court and the church worked together to oppress the people, and how the people fought bravely against the two forces.
In the novel, the rebel gypsy Esmeralda and the ugly disabled man Quasimodo are shown in front of the readers as the embodiment of true beauty, while what people see in the vice bishop Frollo and the noble soldier Forbes is the cruelty, the empty heart and the sinful lust. The author organically connects the singable stories and vivid and rich dramatic scenes to make this novel highly readable.
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