https://padlet.com/ssharma71/jvv0rls5vtwdqyyq The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo en-us 2020-12-30 15:57:23 UTC 2024-07-16 00:15:59 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/531070089/d7a74eba5d3789a24a65f6fcfce1a5f3/download.png ssharma71 https://padlet.com/ssharma71/jvv0rls5vtwdqyyq/wish/1046621242 The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a very good book, with a compelling story. It gives an insight into discrimination that was present at the setting of the book, which was in the 1600s. It is considered one of the classics, and the main character is very appealing to me, because he has major flaws. ]]> 2020-12-30 16:02:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ssharma71/jvv0rls5vtwdqyyq/wish/1046621242 ssharma71 https://padlet.com/ssharma71/jvv0rls5vtwdqyyq/wish/1046629572 This book starts off really well, as it drops you in a place, that seems it would have no significance to the story, whatsoever, but then it slowly weaves and turns, and leads you into the story. The actual opening lines are: "Three hundred and forty-eight years, six months, and nineteen days ago to-day, the Parisians awoke to the sound of all the bells in the triple circuit of the city, the university, and the town ringing a full peal. " (pg. 12, Hugo)]]> 2020-12-30 16:12:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ssharma71/jvv0rls5vtwdqyyq/wish/1046629572 ssharma71 https://padlet.com/ssharma71/jvv0rls5vtwdqyyq/wish/1046634796 In this book, there are many places where the dialogue is important enough to cause a change in the story. 

1. There is a quote in the story, where it really describes what Quasimodo looks like, and it changes the whole perspective, because before, you would think he is a normal man.  It says,"We shall not attempt to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedron nose-that horse-shoe mouth-that small left eye over-shadowed by a red bushy brow, while the right eye disappeared entirely under an enormous wart-of those straggling teeth with breaches here and there like the battlements of a fortress-of that horny lip, over which one of those teeth projected like the tusk of an elephant-of that forked chin-and, above all, of the expression diffused over the whole-that mixture of malice, astonishment, and melancholy. Let the reader, if he can, figure to himself this combination." (p. 62)

2. There is a quote that shows Frollo's feelings for Esmeralda, and it shows how wicked, and how far he will go for that love. It says, "He stirred up from the bottom of his heart all his hatred, all his wickedness; and he discovered, with the cool eye of a physician examining a patient, that this hatred, this wickedness, were but vitiated love-that love, the source of every virtue in man, turned to things horrible in the heart of a priest-and that a man constituted as he was, by making himself a priest made himself a demon." (p. 482)

3. There is a quote that shows that Esmeralda hates Frollo. It is described with much intensity. "And with a hurried step-making her hurry too, for he never let go of her arm-he went straight up to the gibbet, and pointing to it, 'Choose between us,' he said coolly. She tore herself from his grasp, fell at the foot of the gibbett, and clasped that dismal supporter; then she half turned her beautiful head, and looked at the priest over her shoulder. She had the air of a Madonna at the foot of the cross. The priest had remained quite still, his finger still raised to the gibbet, and his gesture unchanged, like a statue. At length the gipsy girl said to him, 'It is less horrible to me than you are'." (p. 639)]]> 2020-12-30 16:19:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ssharma71/jvv0rls5vtwdqyyq/wish/1046634796 ssharma71 https://padlet.com/ssharma71/jvv0rls5vtwdqyyq/wish/1046661808 There are many places where the story drastically changes, and they switch the story. 

1. Esmeralda is arrested and charged with the attempted murder of Phoebus, whom Frollo actually attempted to kill in jealousy after seeing him trying to seduce Esmeralda. She is sentenced to death by hanging. This event is important, because if this hadn't happened, Esmeralda would never have fallen under the eyes of all the men who love her. She would never have become a criminal. 

2. The Romani Esmeralda (born as Agnes) captures the hearts of many men, including those of Captain Phoebus and Pierre Gringoire, but especially Quasimodo and his guardian Archdeacon Claude Frollo. This event is important because this is the point where Frollo falls in love with her. This is the catalyst for all the terrible events that occur. 

3. Charmolue sentences her to death after she falsely confesses to witchcraft and to murdering Phoebus. This event ultimately leads to her death, and is an important event. ]]> 2020-12-30 16:54:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ssharma71/jvv0rls5vtwdqyyq/wish/1046661808 ssharma71 https://padlet.com/ssharma71/jvv0rls5vtwdqyyq/wish/1047892229 Tenacious - I think that this means strong, or to have strength. 

Sonorous vibrations incessantly sent forth from the numerous belfries - I think this means all the rings sent from all the bells.

]]> 2020-12-31 22:35:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ssharma71/jvv0rls5vtwdqyyq/wish/1047892229 ssharma71 https://padlet.com/ssharma71/jvv0rls5vtwdqyyq/wish/1047893547 I think that the greatest theme is love, especially sacrificial love, and especially when everything else in society seems to stand against love.]]> 2020-12-31 22:39:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ssharma71/jvv0rls5vtwdqyyq/wish/1047893547 ssharma71 https://padlet.com/ssharma71/jvv0rls5vtwdqyyq/wish/1047895849 Pierre Gringore, Gringore also spelled Gringoire, (born c. 1475, Normandy, Fr.—died c. 1538), French actor-manager and playwright, best known as a writer of soties (satirical farces) for Les Enfants Sans Souci, a famous medieval guild of comic actors of which Gringore was for a time the second dignitary, Mère Sotte (Mother Fool). A loosely fictionalized vision of Pierre Gringoire appears as an important character in Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and films based on it, except the 1996 animated Disney film (in which his character is combined with Captain Phoebus) and its 2002 direct-to-video sequel. He is probably best known from Hugo's book, in which he was inspired by and bears some resemblance to the historical Gringoire.


Notre Dame de Paris is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité in the 4th arrondissement of Paris. The cathedral was consecrated to the Virgin Mary and considered to be one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture. Its pioneering use of the rib vault and flying buttress, its enormous and colourful rose windows, as well as the naturalism and abundance of its sculptural decoration set it apart from the earlier Romanesque style. Major components that make Notre Dame stand out include its large historic organ and its immense church bells.

Louis XI (3 July 1423 – 30 August 1483), called "Louis the Prudent" (French: le Prudent), was King of France from 1461 to 1483. He succeeded his father, Charles VII.]]> 2020-12-31 22:47:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ssharma71/jvv0rls5vtwdqyyq/wish/1047895849 ssharma71 https://padlet.com/ssharma71/jvv0rls5vtwdqyyq/wish/1047902713 The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1996 Disney American animated musical drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 34th Disney animated feature film and the seventh produced during the Disney Renaissance, the film is based on the 1831 novel of the same name by Victor Hugo. The plot centers on Quasimodo, the deformed bell-ringer of Notre Dame, and his struggle to gain acceptance into society.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a British feature length adaptation of the 1831 novel by Victor Hugo, produced for television by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) in 1976 and aired on the same network in 1977. Directed by Alan Cooke and written by Robert Muller, the film stars Kenneth Haigh as Claude Frollo, Warren Clarke as Quasimodo and Michelle Newell as Esmeralda, and features the visual effects by Ian Scoones and the original music by Wilfred Josephs.

In 2019 an adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Benjamin Polya was staged by Iris Theatre Company at St Paul's Church, Covent Garden, London.]]> 2020-12-31 23:03:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ssharma71/jvv0rls5vtwdqyyq/wish/1047902713 ssharma71 https://padlet.com/ssharma71/jvv0rls5vtwdqyyq/wish/1047905545 In The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Victor Hugo makes frequent reference to the architecture of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. He also mentions the invention of the printing press, when the bookmaker near the beginning of the work speaks of "the German pest."

In 2010, British archivist Adrian Glew discovered references to a real-life hunchback who was a foreman of a government sculpting studio in Paris in the 1820s who worked on post-Revolution restorations to the cathedral.

The name Quasimodo has become synonymous with "a courageous heart beneath a grotesque exterior."]]> 2020-12-31 23:12:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ssharma71/jvv0rls5vtwdqyyq/wish/1047905545