Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame Viewed from the outside, a more horrific being never lived. Everything he presented to the world: twisted legs, a deformed spine, oversized hands, and a monocled visage crowned by a mane of hair the rust color of autumn leaves, made him a most insufferable man in the eyes of the people. Ostracized from a society who never hesitated to jeer at his ugliness, Quasimodo, the monster of Notre Dame, bore all abuse with unremitting stoicism while taking shelter
The Transformation of Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Notre Dame de Paris) The Hunchback of Notre Dame has taken on several forms since the publication of Victor Hugo's novel Notre Dame de Paris in 1831. Quasimodo, the name itself meaning "half-formed," is the misshapen, misunderstood hunch-backed bell ringer of the Notre Dame Cathedral in 15th Century France. The character has been brought to life on the movie screen many different times from the 1930's through to the 1990's
Festival of Fools. The protagonist, Quasimodo, otherwise known as the Hunchback of Notre Dame, was named the ugliest person in Paris. The antagonist in this story is Archdeacon Claude Frollo. Frollo uses Quasimodo as a personal slave and keeps him in a tall tower. One day, Quasimodo looks out of the tower to see a beautiful gypsy dancer La Esmerelda. La Esmerelda is dancing in the town square when a struggling poet named Pierre Gringoire attacks her. Quasimodo takes action and saves La Esmerelda
characterization and setting. Underneath the daring love that is unfolding between Quasimodo and Esmeralda, the historical tragedies of 1492 are being unwound. Hugo is illuminating the political struggles of the nineteenth century. The novel is spiritual, not only in its setting but also in the characters. Upon developing the characters, Hugo uses paradox to induce their unfortunate flaws. For example, Quasimodo. He represents the grotesque and the beautiful. He is shunned from society and must
Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Damn is an animated film based upon Victor Hugo’s novel of the same name. The main characters Quasimodo, the hunchback who lives in the bell tower of Notre Damn, Esmeralda, the gypsie girl, Claude Frollo, the cruel Archdeacon of Notre Damn, and Captain Phoebus, the antagonist who defies Frollos’ orders, are all representative of the social classes and turmoil that occurred throughout the early 19th century in France. The original novel was written during the July
Victor Hugo penned a fantastic, picturesque story of passion and the human spirit in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The dramatic emotions of the characters play out on the stage of fifteenth century Paris, France. Quasimodo, a repugnant physical defect of nature, lived severed from human contact, excepting that of the solemnly aloof priest, Claude Frollo. For his part, Frollo strove for knowledge until he encountered the captivatingly gorgeous gypsy dancer, Esmeralda. She existed solely to adore an
Hunchback Analysis Essay Victor Hugo is known for his great work in romantic literature. In one of his best known works, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, there is a very prevalent theme of love. Love can both be a wonderful thing, and something that may cause a painful heartbreak. In The Hunchback of Notre Dame, love is depicted as both of these. Phoebus de Chateaupers, the captain of the king's archers, is one of the characters that brings out the love theme, but not always in the right way. He tends
monster. However, the book leaves it up to the reader to decide who the true monster really is. Another story that is similar to Frankenstein, where the deformed creature isn’t the true monster, would be The Hunchback of Notre-Dame created by Disney. Quasimodo, the hunchback, was the victim, and Frollo, the priest, was the monster. These two stories, while both are very different, have some very similar qualities between the monster and the man of their tales. The similarities of these stories will highlight
dominance exerted by fellow characters up until she rejects the majority of such ties, as occurs in ‘Mrs Quasimodo’. Cecil Vyse is an antagonist who inflicts a considerable amount of constraint, primarily stemming from his desire to preserve ‘Lucy as a work of Art’. The narrative depicts Cecil viewing the heroine as ‘a woman of Leonardo Da Vinci’s’, leading to the degrading comment that ‘no woman of Leonardo’s could have something so vulgar as a story’. This description portrays Cecil’s inability
Archdeacon, Claude Frollo. Quasimodo loves each person in a different manner, but is truer to the Archdeacon. The hunchback feels, among other things, a love described as Eros for the Mistress Esmerelda; whereas, for the Archdeacon the love he feels is known as Philia. While Quasimodo is drawn to Esmerelda by her inner beauty and personal qualities, he admires the Archdeacon for his powerful position in the social structure of the town. Throughout the story, Quasimodo does his best to protect
fifteenth century, with it’s main attraction being the Cathedral of Notre-Dame. Hugo’s characters show great love and loyalty to each other but then at the same time, they judge each other and use each other for personal benefits. Novel: Characters Quasimodo- He gives the title of this novel it meaning. He was born a disfigured hunchback, with one useful eye and the other covered by a wart. His mother abandoned him as a baby, then adopted by Claude Frollo. He grew up in Notre-Dame and at fourteen; he
article, Martin Norden examines the representations of Quasimodo portrayed in the Disney animated movie, the Hunchback of Notre Dame. His main claim is that instead of improving social acceptance towards disabilities as indicated by the filmmakers, the film in fact reinforces the attitudinal barrier which excludes disabled people from the communities. He illustrates his main claim by focusing on the identity issues which inform the Quasimodo character and the way that the producers
Viewing a person less of who they are just because of a physical or social attribute that they relate to, is what is known as oppression. It is a social ill that has been present in the society since time immemorial, and due to the societal imbalances, the vice is hard to deal with. In ‘The Hunchback of Notre dame’, oppression is highly practiced and just like any other normal society, dealing with it is impossible. The film highlights different types of oppression and the imbalances that are present
although the comic frame depicts Quasimodo as being accepted to create an upward direction, the tragic frame indicates that Quasimodo is still the “other” as he remains disfigured and doesn’t get the girl he loves. Ward reveals that the unclear attitudes contradict with the theme proposed by the screenwriter Irene Mecchi, which is “judge not the outcast, for he may possess the greatest worth,” since the movie actually argues on behalf of the outlook since Quasimodo is still a tragic figure who suffers
liked at this time, but the church was highly respected. Being it that Quasimodo`s mom had left him on front steps of the church the king could do almost nothing. Quasimodoe could not leave the church due to the fact that he was deformed and ugly. Quasimodo grew very lonely and bored up in that bell tower all by him self. He was looking down one day and set eyes upon a young woman named Esmerelda. On the day of fools Quasimodo saw this young lady and decided to go do! wn and take a closer look at
In a world where animals talk, magic exists and everything can be solved with a pinch of pixie dust where is the faith in a higher power? When looking thought Disney’s collection of movies, it is clear that there is always an outside force helping the main characters along in their journey. This force comes in many shapes from the wind in Pocahontas to the stars in The Lion King. These outside force help the characters to achieve their goals and face their fears. These forces are not always the Christian
issues. For example Mrs Quasimodo ‘s main issue within the text is the idea of social acceptance and appearance. Mrs Quasimodo “wed” Quasimodo and believed that she loved him. Mrs Quasimodo uses “stricken bells” to describe the place where they first “fucked”. The word “stricken” suggests pain and grief revealing that she felt uncomfortable with where they “fucked”. The word “fucked” shows the way that she felt about the act that took place between her and Quasimodo; it implies that she
are the direct descendants of Quasimodo and his stone friends, the west façade of the cathedral as we see it today is more a monument to a great fiction that was Victor Hugo’s than to anything originating in the Middle Ages.” (Camille, 72) Hugo gives a detailed description to gargoyles in the novel mentioning them “with necks outstretched and jaws agape” which was considered in their restoration. Furthermore, the main character of the novel, ugly hunchback Quasimodo, served as their prototype: “And
and of course, irony. When Huxley first introduces us to Bernard Marx, we learn of his unfortunate physical deformity. Thinking back to the early 19th century, we remember another character with a physical deformity more severe than poor Bernard. Quasimodo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The
Propaganda’ means “the spread of information about how women are greater than men”. This collection does show the empowerment of women throughout the selected poems because of the switch from famous male characters to their female counterparts. “Mrs Quasimodo”, “Queen Herod”, “The Kray Sisters” and “Little Red Cap” are feminist poems because in all of these poems the women become better off by the end of the poem and show that men are useless. However poems like “Mrs Faust”, “Anne Hathaway”, “Mrs Midas”