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    The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo follows Quasimodo, the deformed bell-ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Quasimodo falls in love with the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda, who shows him kindness. She is later falsely accused of crimes and sentenced to death. As she is hanged, Quasimodo rescues her and takes her to the cathedral for sanctuary. However, the church's protection is removed and Esmeralda is killed. Driven mad by grief, Quasimodo kills the archdeacon and later dies holding Esmeralda's body, urging people not to judge others by appearances.

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    The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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    The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo follows Quasimodo, the deformed bell-ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Quasimodo falls in love with the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda, who shows him kindness. She is later falsely accused of crimes and sentenced to death. As she is hanged, Quasimodo rescues her and takes her to the cathedral for sanctuary. However, the church's protection is removed and Esmeralda is killed. Driven mad by grief, Quasimodo kills the archdeacon and later dies holding Esmeralda's body, urging people not to judge others by appearances.

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    The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo follows Quasimodo, the deformed bell-ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Quasimodo falls in love with the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda, who shows him kindness. She is later falsely accused of crimes and sentenced to death. As she is hanged, Quasimodo rescues her and takes her to the cathedral for sanctuary. However, the church's protection is removed and Esmeralda is killed. Driven mad by grief, Quasimodo kills the archdeacon and later dies holding Esmeralda's body, urging people not to judge others by appearances.

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    The Hunchback of Notre Dame

    Author: Victor Marie Hugo Esmeralda, seeing his thirst, approaches the public stocks
    - He was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of and offers him a drink of water. It saves him, and she
    the Romantic movement. He is considered one of captures his heart.
    the greatest and best known French writers.
    Esmeralda is later charged with the attempted murder of
    Background of the Literary Work: Phoebus, whom Frollo actually attempted to kill in
    - In January 14 1831, he published one of his most jealousy after seeing him trying to seduce Esmeralda, and
    enduring works, Notre-Dame de Paris(The is tortured and sentenced to death by hanging. As she is
    Hunchback of Notre Dame). Set in the medieval being led to the gallows, Quasimodo swings down by the
    period, the novel presents a harsh criticism of the bell rope of Notre Dame and carries her off to the
    society that degrades and shuns the hunchback cathedral under the law of sanctuary, temporarily
    Quasimodo. This was Hugo's most celebrated protecting her from arrest.
    work to date, and paved the way for his
    subsequent political writing. Frollo later informs Gringoire that the Court of Parlement
    - Victor Hugo began writing The Hunchback of has voted to remove Esmeralda's right to sanctuary so she
    Notre-Dame in 1829, largely to make his can no longer seek shelter in the church and will be taken
    contemporaries more aware of the value of the from the church and killed. Clopin, the king of the
    Gothic architecture, which was neglected and Truands (criminals of Paris), hears the news from
    often destroyed to be replaced by new buildings, Gringoire and rallies the Truands to charge the cathedral
    or defaced by replacement of parts of buildings in and rescue Esmeralda.
    a newer style.
    When Quasimodo sees the Truands, he assumes they are
    Setting: PARIS there to hurt Esmeralda, so he drives them off. Likewise,
    - Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris he thinks the King's men want to rescue her, and tries to
    - Festival of Fools in Paris help them find her. She is rescued by Frollo and her phony
    - Place de Greve (Where Quasimodo was tortured) husband Gringoire. But after yet another failed attempt to
    - Montfaucon (a huge graveyard in Paris) win her love, Frollo betrays Esmeralda by handing her to
    the troops and watches while she is being hanged.
    Conflict:
    The conflict is defined, as Quasimodo becomes the When Frollo laughs during Esmeralda's hanging,
    protagonist fighting against his ugliness and seeking a Quasimodo pushes him from the heights of Notre Dame
    purpose in life beyond the ringing of the bells. to his death. Quasimodo later goes to Montfaucon, a huge
    graveyard in Paris where the bodies of the condemned are
    Point of View: Third Person dumped, where he stays with Esmeralda's dead body and
    dies of starvation. About eighteen months later, the tomb
    Lesson of the Story: is opened, and the skeletons are found. As someone tries
    - Do not judge a person based on appearance. to separate them, they crumble to dust.
    - Love is the most powerful emotion of all.
    Definition of Terms:
    Plot: Flogged - beat (someone) with a whip or stick as
    Esmeralda captures the hearts of many men, including punishment or torture.
    those of Captain Phoebus and Pierre Gringoire, but
    especially Quasimodo and his adoptive father, Pillory - a wooden framework with holes for the head and
    Archdeacon Claude Frollo. Frollo is torn between his hands, in which an offender was imprisoned and exposed
    obsessive lust and the rules of the church. He orders to public abuse.
    Quasimodo to kidnap her, but the hunchback is captured
    by Phoebus and his guards, who save Esmeralda. Gallows - a structure, typically of two uprights and a
    crosspiece, for the hanging of criminals.
    The following day, Quasimodo is sentenced to be flogged
    and turned on the pillory for one hour, followed by
    another hour's public exposure. He calls for water.

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