Analysis of Notre Dame de Paris

The immortality of the novel lies in shaping a series of characters.

Esmeralda: Pure, kind, unyielding, compassionate and self-sacrificing. She is a beautiful sixteen-year-old girl who can sing and dance well. Because she was stolen from her home by gypsies and grew up among vagrants, she was not recognized and accepted by the hierarchical upper class at that time. When she was robbed in the middle of the night, she was rescued by the handsome hero captain Fabi of the Royal Guard. It was love at first sight, and Fabi was also captured by her beauty. Esmeralda, no matter whether the love has a result or not, whether the other person really loves herself or not, even though she knows that this kind of love can't have a result, even though she knows that the other person doesn't really love herself, she still loves each other wholeheartedly and remains faithful to such illusory love. Esmeralda not only has a perfect figure, but also has a noble, pure and kind heart. When the poet Gan Guo Wa was about to be hanged by the beggar kingdom, she married the poet without hesitation to save him. The poet was shocked by her beauty and nobility, and immediately fell in love with her involuntarily, hoping to be her worthy husband.

But Esmeralda calmly rejected him for his love idol: "I can only love a man who can protect me." And told him that marrying him was only to save his life, so he could only maintain a nominal relationship with him. When Vice Bishop Claude tried to force Esmeralda to accept his love by various despicable means, Esmeralda would rather die than surrender. In the face of Claude's courtship, her answer was: "The gallows are far less disgusting than you."

Quasimodo: quasimodo, the hero of the novel, fully embodies the author's romanticism. With bold imagination, the author sketched an ugly image: he was born as "a little monster tired of playing ball, ugly, lame, one-eyed and hunchbacked". When I grow up, I am deaf. "It looks like a broken elephant", "tetrahedral nose" and "horseshoe mouth". There is a small left eye under the blushing eyebrows like bristles, and the right eye is completely covered by a large tumor. Teeth are jagged like battlements, and lips are hard. A tooth protrudes from the lips like ivory, and the chin is bent, especially the face, which is completely full of contempt. He is ugly, but he is kind, noble and hateful. As an abandoned baby, Bishop Claude adopted him and never enjoyed the warmth of his family. When I grow up, I continue to ring the bell in the church, so I only love two, one is Claude, the vice bishop, and the other is the lifeless bell in the church. Quasimodo first appeared in front of Esmeralda as a persecutor, but Esmeralda's good for evil deeply shocked quasimodo, whose appearance was deformed and ugly, and awakened his inner desire for good love. However, this longing awakening did not bring him any happiness, but made him feel the mental pain caused by physical defects more deeply. Facing Esmeralda's beauty, he felt so inferior and miserable. He is eager to get close to Esmeralda, but he is afraid that his ugliness will make Esmeralda feel uncomfortable and afraid. He has no extravagant hopes for Esmeralda, as long as he knows that she is by his side. However, even such an extravagant hope was taken away by his adoptive father. In desperation, quasimodo angrily killed Claude, his adoptive father and vice bishop, and finally committed suicide. He embraced Esmeralda's body and walked into another world. The ending of the novel finally crosses this gap through death, which may indeed be the only feasible way.

Claude: insidious, vicious, hypocritical and inhuman. If metaphor is a love hypocrite in our life, then Claude is a love devil in our life. Claude, a 36-year-old deputy bishop of the Paris Church, was educated in a missionary school since he was a child. After decades of hard work, he finally climbed to a high position. However, the monotonous and inhuman church precepts did not eliminate his inner instinctive desire, but became more intense and crazy under extreme repression. When his love for Esmeralda broke the long-term repression of religion, his desire instinct erupted like a volcano and became uncontrollable and out of control. We can't deny that Claude's love for Esmeralda is sincere. He is even willing to give up everything for the love of Esmeralda, along with the God he has believed in for decades. But his love is also extremely selfish. His concept of love is: "If I can't have it, I will let her be destroyed!" " "So he first ordered his adopted son quasimodo to rob Esmeralda in the middle of the night. After the failure, he assassinated his opponent and accused Esmeralda. When Esmeralda was rescued by quasimodo to take legal refuge in Notre Dame de Paris, he used his power and conspiracy to make Esmeralda lose the protection of Notre Dame de Paris, and then forced Esmeralda to accept his so-called "love" with death threats in a chase. However, Notre Dame de Paris is most worthy of readers' appreciation and pondering, and its most prominent artistic feature is to create a romantic artistic image based on the principle of contrast between beauty and ugliness. As an aesthetic ideal, the principle of contrast is the most important feature of Hugo's romanticism, which runs through the whole novel.

First of all, the harmonious and beautiful natural environment of Paris and Notre Dame is in sharp contrast with the dark and unfortunate life of the people, highlighting the darkness of feudal tyranny. Secondly, compare the feudal dynasty with the "miracle dynasty" which respects human rights, is fair and honest. The most important thing is the contrast of characters: the contrast between positive characters and negative characters. Esmeralda and quasimodo are representatives of good, sincere and beautiful humanity, while Claude and Fabi are representatives of selfish, cold and ugly humanity. Good and evil are clearly reflected in these two groups of characters, resulting in a strong contrast. There is also the contrast between the characters themselves, such as quasimodo's appearance and soul. Comparison between two festivals: April Fool's Day and religious festival; Comparison between two dynasties: beggar dynasty and feudal dynasty; A comparison between two kings: Croban, the king of the beggar kingdom