By Victor Hugo
Hugo is known as a thinker of human destiny, a lifelong love of freedom and humanitarianism.
Notre Dame de Paris is an epic work by The French writer Victor Hugo, written in 1831 (also known as The Strange Man of the Bell Tower), who tells the story of notre dame in Paris in the 15th century in bizarre and contrasting ways.
The actual Notre Dame de Paris was built in 1163, and the entire church was completed in 1345, with a history of more than 180 years.
It belongs to the French Gothic church group and is a very representative one.
"Notre Dame de Paris" is about the fact that the French court and church in Notre Dame are in cahoots and oppress the people, expressing hatred for the Bourbon dynasty and the Catholic Church.
Featuring the beautiful and kind Esmeralda, the morally upright Archbishop Claude, and the ugly Quasimodo as the protagonists, the book tells the story of Esmeralda being framed and executed, flogging and accusing the ugly humanity under the feudal system.
With the tragic story of love, Hugo portrays a series of beautiful and kind, false hypocrisy, and loyal characters, presenting readers with a picture of truth, goodness, beauty, ugliness, and evil.
Notre Dame carries the embodiment of the material and spiritual power of the feudal monarchical dynasty, and the story that took place in Notre Dame de Paris has a deep imprint of the times.
Exterior view of Notre Dame Cathedral
At that time in Paris, the religious forces were evil and dark, the feudal hierarchy was cruel and strict, and under the suppression of feudal ideas, human nature became distorted and degenerate.
All sectors of society, especially the lower classes, are in a situation of deep sympathy.
There are many heart-wrenching and touching stories in the text, such as when the Egyptian woman Pagate had just given birth to that lovely daughter, she said to herself: "The daughter is all I have." Indeed, she loved her with all her heart.
When the gypsies snatched her daughter away, she was devastated and went into Notre Dame Cathedral to become a nun. Every day, she prays for her daughter, who she wishes to be safe and happy.
Suffering anxiety and pain for the lost daughter all day, the contradiction between love and hate is intertwined on an embroidered shoe left by the daughter, and the author's description of her heart is very vivid and touching.
Embroidered shoes are the only items she and her daughter have a connection with, every day when she is idle, she carefully examines embroidered shoes, and her endless thoughts about her daughter are concentrated in embroidered shoes, which are the whole universe and the whole world for her.
The author said that "she has beautiful teeth and is therefore always smiling". Egyptian women are insane because of the loss of their daughters, often smiling and showing their teeth, in fact, how painful her heart is.
The personality change of the director of the principal and vice-chancellor Church Claude can be said to be caught off guard, his fate is uncertain, and he is left with only one relative, his younger brother who is sixteen years younger.
He took the eldest brother with hard work, trained his younger brother to study seriously, study science, religious philosophy, etc., and the younger brother finally became an auxiliary bishop priest through hard work.
Esmeralda and Quasimodo Stills
The hardships of life made Don Claude lose his primitive impulse to women.
He also adopted quasimodo, an extremely ugly-looking quasimodo abandoned by his biological parents, as his adopted son, and raised quasimodo to become a bell ringer in Notre Dame.
In the beginning, he was kind, responsible, and achieved something. But all this change began after watching him to the sixteen-year-old dancing girl, the bohemian girl Esmeralda, and his fate changed as a result.
He fell in love with a woman for the first time, to the point of losing his mind and going crazy, which was really frightening.
The girl he loved so much that he couldn't help himself was the child of the Egyptian woman who was dreaming of twilight.
Esmeralda, a 16-year-old girl, finally found her mother, who had been separated for fifteen years, and the mother and daughter cried with joy, and the mother cherished the loss and recovery of this flesh and blood.
She ignited hope for the future life, her spirit was reborn, and she began to look forward to the arrival of good days in the future.
Interior view of Notre Dame Cathedral
The beauty of the maiden impressed the cold and serious church archbishop, so much so that he wanted her love by any means.
Esmeralda had no affection for her, and the girl already belonged to a man named Phobis, the captain of the King's Guard.
Don Claude knew that in this case, he was still in an aggressive posture towards her, and lust and selfishness overcame all his intellect, greed and lust that could not be described in words.
It is true that angels and demons are just a thought apart.
"You know how hot my heart is, you know how I have abandoned all morality, how I have given up on myself, I am a scholar but I have disgraced science, I am a gentleman but I have ruined my reputation, I am a priest, but I spit on God's face with the Book of Mass as a pillow of lust!" It's all for you! Leprechauns! To better sink in your hell! But you don't want me, a sinner."
What a painful realization, how fiery, and how irrational love this love is.
Esmeralda struggles with stills
Eventually he stalks Esmeralda, and while Esmeralda is dating Phobis, he stabs Phobis to death and then blames Esmeralda.
Because of her origin, region, race and other reasons, the poor little girl was discriminated against and suppressed by the feudal ideas of the world, and was bullied by the people around her.
Esmeralda has an unwavering belief in love to the death, has no doubt about the betrayal of her sweetheart, and does not allow others to say a bad word about him.
In the face of Claude's obscenity, she would rather die than yield. In the end, he was slandered by the church and the court as a "witch" and a "murderer".
At the king's behest, she was dragged to the gallows, and her mother, powerless in the face of powerful power, could only use helpless eyes to send her newly reunited daughter to the execution bench set up by the feudal dynasty.
In the Vice-Lord Church Claude's view of love, that is, if I don't get your love, then I will destroy everything about you, very selfish.
He was eventually pushed to death by his adopted son Quasimodo from the bell tower. This is the punishment of morality for her, this selfishness and blind love is a torture for others, not for herself, he is the representative of religious forces.
Quasimodo is a strange and ugly person, a hunchback, one-eyed, deaf and limp deformed, from childhood by the world's discrimination and bullying.
But he had a good heart, and whenever the vicar was in danger, when the vicar wanted to carry out a non-kneeling plot against the little girl, he could always help the little girl out of danger.
He hated his adoptive father's irrational love very much, Quasimodo's kind heart was greater than his body, and he played the judge of justice.
Bell ringer Quasimodo
The little girl Esmeralda had in mind a morally humble officer named Phobis, who had no benevolent heart, nor a responsible and accomplished youth, but a beautiful appearance.
Hypocrisy is a sincere insult and deception to the little girl, a representative of the image of a hypocrite, and a representative of the feudal aristocratic class.
Love is an eternal subject in any era, this is a matter of two wishes, is the result of two mutual attraction effects, if it is only the effort and investment of one party, then the end must be a tragedy, and finally be punished by love.
Hugo's purpose in this book is certainly not to write about love, but to flogg and accuse the dark social system, hypocrisy, and ugly humanity through the emotional stories between the characters, the critique of feudal monarchy.
The author uses a large number of historical events and historical figures to set off the factual basis of the story, the depth of his research on history, and the story of borrowing the past to satirize the present vividly explains how the feudal and backward social system restricts human nature and is ruthlessly punished for ignorance and ignorance.
Hugo is worthy of being a master, the description of the characters' hearts in the book is in-depth and concrete, you can touch the inner feelings, and use simple words to express the emotions of love and hate, which makes people move and emotional!
The author almost used the history and culture of France for hundreds of years, religious revolution and other huge historical materials, the novel was laid with a deep historical background and high literary value, not a brick and tile, but a large boulder, poured out of the magnificent momentum of the work, worthy of serious reading!
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