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This amazing history novel highlight the political and social atmosphere in France over the course of history. This history novel gives an education for literary enthusiasts of the Romantic, and the Gothic genre. The Hunchback of Notre Dame provides a fascinating look at the elements of Gothic literature which Victor Hugo expertly employed in the telling of one of his famous classic history novels.
Like other great Gothic classics, the characters are mysterious with secrets and dark pasts.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a history novel of unrequited love between a man horribly disfigured and a beautiful woman who loves someone else. But underneath the unfolding of Quasimodo's love of La Esmeralda is a historical drama set in 1482, a time that in many ways mirrored the times and political struggles of Victor Hugo's nineteenth-century world.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame conveys a spiritual element in its characters and setting. There is a priest who has lost his spiritual path and there is a physically disfigured man who is shunned and must find solace not in the material world but deep within himself. In this history novel is the beautiful woman, innocence personified, who searches for a spiritual form of love.
The lovely gypsy girl Esmeralda meets the handsome soldier Phoebus. The three of them find themselves ranged against Frollo's cruelty and his attempts to destroy the home of the gypsies, the Court of Miracles. And the hunchback Quasimodo must desperately defend both Esmeralda and the very cathedral of Notre Dame.
Quasimodo was abandoned as a baby and rescued by Claude Frollo, whom he follows unquestionably. Quasimodo was kept in isolation his whole life, spending his time playing the bells of the cathedral, which eventually caused him to go deaf.
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