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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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The other famous novel by Victor Hugo. Written in 1831, Notre-Dame de Paris, known in English as The Hunchback of Notre Dame, is a rich, meandering tale that addresses messy relationships, fate, and the future of architecture in 1482. The English title is a misnomer, since the protagonist of the story is Esmeralda, the original title being a metaphor on the cathedral who serves as the central location of the novel, and Esmeralda herself (though one could argue the cathedral is itself a character). Victor Hugo strongly protested against the English title, as it turns the focus from the cathedral onto the characters.The hunchback is Quasimodo, the deaf, one-eyed, hunchbacked, monstrously ugly bell-ringer of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. Abandoned outside the church at the age of four, he was taken in out of kindness by the Archdeacon of Josas, Claude Frollo, who raised him in the church and introduced him to the bells.When the hitherto chaste Frollo sees the gypsy girl Esmeralda dancing in the street one day, he finds himself stricken with lust and doesn't know how to deal with it. So, sure as Love Makes You Evil, he grabs Quasimodo (for muscle) and tries to kidnap her. The attempt is foiled by Phoebus, Captain of the Archers. It is spectacularly not foiled by lovable slacker-poet Pierre Gringoire, who gets knocked out trying to save the girl.Later that night, however, Esmeralda temporarily marries the poet, to save his life from her friends at the Court of Miracles. That doesn't mean she's going to let her new "husband" touch her, mind you, or that she's going to give up her dreams of marrying Phoebus. Phoebus likes the look of her, himself, and although he's already engaged to his teenage cousin Fleur-de-Lys, he's not opposed to a bit on the side.Esmeralda's small kindness to Quasimodo when he is in the stocks for the kidnapping attempt (Frollo having let him take the fall) makes her an angel in Quasimodo's mind, and he is henceforth devoted to her. This eventually, and painfully, puts him in conflict with Frollo, whose combination of lust and loathing for Esmeralda makes him increasingly unstable.Amidst the drama and tragedy resulting from everybody's fatal obsessions, Hugo includes leisurely chapters on the architecture of Paris and the expected impact of the newly-developed printing press.The novel has inspired many adaptations. Live-action film versions most notably include those of 1923, 1939, and 1956. Other adaptations include a 1982 made-for-TV adaptation, the 1996 Disney animated version (which itself got a Screen-to-Stage Adaptation that was surprisingly accurate to the original novel), and a French-language rock opera called Notre-Dame de Paris. | |
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Anyone Can Die | |
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Anyone Can Die: By the end of the story, only Phoebus, Fleur-de-Lys, Gringoire and Djali are left alive. | |
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Rescue Romance | |
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Rescue Romance: Esmeralda falls for Phoebus after he rescues her from Frollo and Quasimodo. | |
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Lovable Coward | |
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Lovable Coward: Gringoire tries to do his best to help save Esmeralda, but when his own neck is at stake, he decides he'd rather not. | |
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Toros y Flamenco | |
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Toros y Flamenco: Esmeralda has a Spanish name, in keeping with the romanticization of Spanish Gypsy women in 19th century France (e.g. Carmen). Ironically Gypsies first arrived in Spain from France in the 15th century, just decades before the setting of the novel. | |
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The Siege | |
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The Siege: Quasimodo bravely and single-handedly defends the cathedral against an armed horde. Who were trying to rescue Esmeralda. Nice Job Breaking It, Hero. | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death: When Quasimodo tosses Frollo off the roof of the cathedral for his complicity in getting Esmeralda hanged, Frollo doesn't hit the ground straight away. He gets caught on some guttering, and several paragraphs are spent on his struggle to try and reach a safe spot. Then, when the guttering breaks, he falls and hits the roof of a house, falls off that and hits the street, which is what finally kills him. | |
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Ambiguous Situation | |
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Ambiguous Situation: Quasimodo is indicated to probably be white (what with being a pale redhead and all), but he was switched out by the Romani at age four or so with Paquette la Chantefleurie's infant daughter Agnes who turns out to be Esmeralda's real identity. Considering he was already a decently big kid by then, it's unclear if he was born Romani himself or if he was taken in by them until a more normal child came along as an option. | |
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The Hedonist | |
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The Hedonist: Jehan Frollo is the 15th-century equivalent of a frat boy. Supposedly a student, he spends all of his free time and (his brother's) money on hedonistic pursuits: expensive clothes, parties, and courting loose women. | |
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Ambiguously Brown | |
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Ambiguously Brown: Esmeralda has black hair and "golden" skin. Turns out she's a white girl with a tan from living on the road with the Romani her whole life- though to be fair, her father's identity remains unknown, considering Paquette was a sex worker, and she very well could be mixed-race regardless. | |
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Beast and Beauty | |
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Beast and Beauty: The deaf, disfigured, deformed Quasimodo is attracted to the beautiful Esmeralda and goes as far as to die just to be with her. However, she does not reciprocate his feelings. | |
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Beauty Equals Goodness | |
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Beauty Equals Goodness: Subverted. Esmeralda is completely taken in by Phoebus' outward appearance and believes he's her Knight in Shining Armor when he's actually a despicable lout. By contrast, Quasimodo, while ugly and socially unappealing, is still one of the most decent characters in the book. | |
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Distant Finale | |
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Distant Finale: The ending takes place eighteen months later when a group of surveyors discover two long-rotted corpses, Together in Death, one of whom has a crooked back. | |
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Burn the Witch! | |
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Burn the Witch!: Esmeralda is charged with witchcraft, among other offenses. However, she's sentenced to death by hanging, not by burning at the stake. | |
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Gentle Giant | |
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Gentle Giant: Downplayed. Except to the people he loves (all two of them), Quasimodo is unsociable, violent, and mean. | |
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Agony of the Feet | |
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Agony of the Feet: Esmeralda is threatened with having her foot crushed in a vise unless she confesses to Phoebus's murder. | |
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So Beautiful, It's a Curse | |
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So Beautiful, It's a Curse: If Esmeralda was unattractive, or even if she was just slightly less attractive, none of the bad things in the novel would've happened. | |
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Virgin Power | |
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Virgin Power: Esmeralda has an amulet that is supposed to help her find her mother, but believes it will only work so long as she is a virgin. | |
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WronglyAccused | |
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Wrongly Accused: Esmeralda is arrested for stabbing Phoebus, which was actually done by Frollo in a fit of jealousy. | |
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Flower Motifs | |
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Flower Motifs: Quasimodo once leaves two bouquets of flowers in Esmeralda's room; one is fresh and beautiful but inside a humble earthen pot (symbolizing Quasimodo, who is outwardly hideous but holds a soft spot for Esmeralda), the other is withered and dead but inside a pretty crystal vase (symbolizing Phoebus, who is outwardly handsome but self-absorbed and boorish). Esmeralda picks the dead flowers. | |
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Annoying Arrows | |
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Annoying Arrows: Arrows don't have much of an effect on Quasimodo. | |
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Ambiguous Gender | |
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Ambiguous Gender: At least in some English translations, Djali is referred to with masculine and feminine pronouns alike, despite Esmeralda specifically stating, "She is [her] sister." However Gringoire notes that the innocent and naïve Esmeralda does not seem to distinguish between male and female. | |
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Love Dodecahedron | |
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Love Dodecahedron: Frollo, Quasimodo, Phoebus, and Gringoire are all attracted to Esmeralda, who is married to Gringoire, but has eyes only for Phoebus, who is engaged to Fleur-de-Lys. | |
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Love Interest vs. Lust Interest | |
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Love Interest vs. Lust Interest: Esméralda is loved by Quasimodo and lusted after by Quasimodo's benefactor Frollo, creating a deadly conflict between the two men. What's worse, she is oblivious to both of their feelings and instead falls for Captain Phoebus, who only wants her for sex, then abandons her to be hanged for a crime she did not commit (Phoebus is thus an Opportunistic Lust Interest). | |
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Scenery Porn | |
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Scenery Porn: Hugo goes into a lot of detail when describing his beloved cathedral. | |
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Laughing Mad | |
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Laughing Mad: Frollo, when he completely loses it at the end, laughs at the sight of Esmeralda's hanging. It is described as "the laugh of a demon, a laugh which one can only give vent to when one is no longer human." | |
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Taking the Heat | |
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Taking the Heat: Only Quasimodo is punished for the initial kidnapping attempt. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: Frollo gives up Esmeralda to the troops and watches while she is being hanged. Seeing Frollo laughing at Esmeralda's execution, Quasimodo pushes him from the heights of Notre Dame to his death, then he commits suicide. | |
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Karma Houdini Warranty | |
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Karma Houdini Warranty: Olivier le Daim is Louis XI's Evil Chancellor who only cares about expanding his own power base, and yet survives the novel. However, the epilogue casually mentions that the reason the surveyors discovered the corpses of Quasimodo and Esmeralda is because they're trying to find a suitable burial site for le Daim after his execution at the order of Louis XI's son, Charles VIII. | |
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Ain't Too Proud to Beg | |
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Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When he's about to be executed, Gringoire begs for his life to the King quite verbosely. It works. | |
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Disney Villain Death | |
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Disney Villain Death: Quasimodo throws Frollo off a balcony to his doom in a fit of rage after Esmeralda was hanged. | |
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Doorstop Baby | |
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Doorstop Baby: Quasimodo was abandoned outside the church and adopted by Frollo. | |
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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy | |
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I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Quasimodo does what he can to make Esmeralda happy, including acting as a messenger to Phoebus, whom he knows to be a jerk. | |
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Pure Is Not Good | |
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Pure Is Not Good: Frollo, a pious priest, has no idea how to deal with sexual frustration since he's lived all his life away from the opposite sex. Quasimodo struggles with this somewhat too, for similar reasons (Frollo raising him the way he did didn't help), but he is able to manage it by sublimating his attraction to Esmeralda into unselfish devotion rather than sexual obsession. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: "Quasimodo" actually has a double meaning. It first refers to the day Frollo found him: the last day of the Easter Octave, also known as Quasimodo Sunday. Quasimodo is also a reference to how he seemed merely "almost" human to Frollo. The text leaves it ambiguous as to which meaning Frollo was going for, but given his conflicted personality, it's likely he meant both. | |
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Lemony Narrator | |
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Lemony Narrator: The narrator frequently indulges in sarcastic comments. For example: | |
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Because You Were Nice to Me | |
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Because You Were Nice to Me: Quasimodo's devotion to Esmeralda starts when she shows him kindness and brings him water on the scaffold even though the only reason he's up there is because he tried to kidnap her at Frollo's behest. | |
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Mr. Vice Guy | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_79b5990c | comment |
Mr. Vice Guy: Gringoire is deemed a coward by the other characters but otherwise is easily the nicest character in the book. | |
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All Love Is Unrequited | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_7a82c3d2 | comment |
All Love Is Unrequited: Frollo, Quasimodo, and (to a lesser extent) Gringoire are in love with Esmeralda, who only has eyes for Phoebus, who is engaged to Fleur-de-lys and only interested in Esmeralda for sex. | |
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Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_7ec94d53 | comment |
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Frollo is a man who tried so hard to be genuinely good that his perverse lust drives him tragically insane. Quasimodo is a nasty little misanthrope, but considering the fact that he's been rejected by society at large because of his appearance, can you really blame him? | |
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I Didn't Mean to Turn You On | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_7f533ea0 | comment |
I Didn't Mean to Turn You On: Esmerelda had no intention of awakening lustful feelings in Frollo. Or anyone else (except Phoebus), for that matter. | |
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Sinister Minister | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_9245d989 | comment |
Sinister Minister: The main villain of the book, Frollo, is a priest who goes mad because his love for Esmeralda is not reciprocated. | |
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| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_9673d7f0 | type |
Orphan's Plot Trinket | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_9673d7f0 | comment |
Orphan's Plot Trinket: Esmeralda has an amulet that is supposed to help her find her mother. | |
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| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_969b13a6 | type |
Hot Gypsy Woman | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_969b13a6 | comment |
Hot Gypsy Woman: Unbuilt Trope. Esmeralda is a very attractive girl raised by the Gypsies. Many men, including a chaste priest, immediately fall in love with her at first sight. She is also quite bold with men: she does not hesitate to marry Gringoire to save his life, even if she does not love him. Downplayed because she is innocent and a virgin rather than fiery and worldly. Finally Subverted: she was raised by Gypsies but is not one by birth. | |
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| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_9b34ee31 | type |
Marriage of Convenience | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_9b34ee31 | comment |
Marriage of Convenience: Esmeralda enters a four-year "gypsy marriage" with Gringoire in order to save his life. | |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_9b34ee31 | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_a2ff4e6f | type |
Single Tear | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_a2ff4e6f | comment |
Single Tear: Quasimodo cries one when he's on the scaffold and Esmeralda brings him water. The narration notes that it was probably the first tear he had shed in his life. | |
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| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_a70223 | type |
Karma Houdini | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_a70223 | comment |
Karma Houdini: Phoebus has no problem taking advantage of Esmeralda's innocence or letting her die on trumped-up charges including charges of his own murder. Yet he is one of the few characters that are left alive by the end of the story. However, according to the narrator, he suffers a tragic fate at the end: he gets married. | |
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| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_a7850fbf | type |
Only Known by Their Nickname | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_a7850fbf | comment |
Only Known by Their Nickname: At her introduction in the book, Esmeralda is referred to as "La Esmeralda", actually "The Emerald". She is essentially nicknamed by the Gypsies and the beggars, and her true name, Agnes, is only revealed at the end of the book. | |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_a7850fbf | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_a8dcb1d7 | type |
Love at First Sight | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_a8dcb1d7 | comment |
Love at First Sight: Deconstructed. Esmeralda falls for Phoebus instantly after he saves her from Quasimodo and Frollo's kidnapping attempt. But since she doesn't really know him, she sees him as a Knight in Shining Armor instead of the cynical, selfish jerk that he really is. Frollo also falls for Esmeralda the first time he sees her (albeit a lot less purely); but this love is a dark, unhealthy obsession that eventually drives him mad. | |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_a8dcb1d7 | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_a98abeda | type |
Roguish Romani | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_a98abeda | comment |
Roguish Romani: The Romani are portrayed as thieves and rumored to be cannibals. The Token Good Teammate is Esmeralda, who is actually a French girl named Agnes. | |
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| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_adbbb5c5 | type |
Writers Suck | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_adbbb5c5 | comment |
Writers Suck: Gringoire's career as a poet is an abject failure. The opening chapters make clear that no one except him is paying any attention to his mystery play. | |
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| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_af3ea0e3 | type |
Face–Heel Turn | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_af3ea0e3 | comment |
Face–Heel Turn: Frollo is initially a good man who took in Quasimodo out of the kindness of his heart and supports his good-for-nothing brother Jehan, but as his obsession with Esmeralda intensifies, his morals completely erode and he goes mad. | |
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| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_af616e40 | type |
Accidental Misnaming | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_af616e40 | comment |
Accidental Misnaming: Phoebus can't be bothered to remember Esmeralda's name, so he usually just takes a stab at it. | |
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| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_b0855ef3 | type |
No Historical Figures Were Harmed | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_b0855ef3 | comment |
No Historical Figures Were Harmed: Pierre Gringoire is based on a poet of the era. Notably, he's the only one to get a happy ending in that after pivoting to tragedies, he becomes a successful playwright. | |
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| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_b352e864 | type |
Sexless Marriage | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_b352e864 | comment |
Sexless Marriage: Gringoire would like to consummate his marriage to Esmeralda, but after she threatens him with her Chastity Dagger, he gives up. | |
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| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_b58b4e3c | type |
Too Dumb to Live | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_b58b4e3c | comment |
Too Dumb to Live: Esmeralda takes on severe shades of this when she's hiding in her mother's cell, trying to evade detection by the guards... and getting away with it... only to dash for the window and start crying for Phoebus the moment she hears his voice. | |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_b58b4e3c | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_b593baf1 | type |
Author Filibuster | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_b593baf1 | comment |
Author Filibuster: In book 3, chapter III, the narrator describes at length the architectural development of Paris since the 15th century and how ugly the city has become. The second chapter of book 5 consists of a long digression about the impact of the invention of printing. | |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_b593baf1 | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_b9c673a6 | type |
Market-Based Title | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_b9c673a6 | comment |
Market-Based Title: Published in the original French as Notre-Dame de Paris, usually published in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. | |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_b9c673a6 | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_bb10f0d3 | type |
Thieves' Cant | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_bb10f0d3 | comment |
Thieves' Cant: Argot features heavily here, being that it focuses so much on gypsies. | |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_bb10f0d3 | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_bf927e82 | type |
Non-Human Sidekick | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_bf927e82 | comment |
Non-Human Sidekick: Djali is Esmeralda's adorable and intelligent goat. | |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_bf927e82 | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_c0afd51a | type |
Evil Cripple | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_c0afd51a | comment |
Evil Cripple: The auditor (assistant judge) who vainly tries to hide his deafness but resorts to rote trial dialogue. He doesn't realize Quasimodo is also deaf, resulting in a scene that the mob finds funny, which only infuriates the auditor, leading to Quasimodo's unjust punishment. | |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_c0afd51a | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_c3c18143 | type |
Hope Spot | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_c3c18143 | comment |
Hope Spot: When it turns out that Gudule is actually Esmeralda's mother, she hides Esmeralda in her cell, and it seems that she will escape the executioners. Gudule manages to convince the soldiers that Esmeralda ran away, and they are about to leave... but just then, Esmeralda hears Phoebus' voice and cries out for Phoebus to help her. Phoebus doesn't even hear her, but the soldiers grab her and take her to the gallows. Gudule is killed while trying to protect her. | |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_c3c18143 | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_c4db6423 | type |
Yank the Dog's Chain | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_c4db6423 | comment |
Yank the Dog's Chain: Esmeralda's mother, Paquette, was a prostitute who doted upon her daughter. When Esmeralda was kidnapped by Gypsies when she was still a baby, Paquette was completely devastated and became an anchoress, spending fifteen years in a small cell, repenting and begging for God to give her back her daughter. They're eventually reunited... only for Esmeralda to be taken away to be executed almost immediately afterward. Paquette is killed while trying to prevent Esmeralda's arrest. | |
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| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_c5474384 | type |
Vow of Celibacy | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_c5474384 | comment |
Vow of Celibacy: Frollo is torn between the pious celibacy he is supposed to maintain as an archdeacon and his lust for Esmeralda, becoming increasingly unstable as he fails to reconcile the two. | |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_c5474384 | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_c83a589c | type |
Luke, I Am Your Father | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_c83a589c | comment |
Luke, I Am Your Father: In the end, Esmeralda realizes that Gudule, the anchoress, is her mother. The happiness of reuniting with her does not last: both are killed shortly thereafter. | |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_c83a589c | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_cd54b574 | type |
Switched at Birth | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_cd54b574 | comment |
Switched at Birth: Sort of. The infant Agnes (who eventually became Esmeralda) was abducted by a gypsy tribe, who replaced her with none other than a very young Quasimodo. No wonder Paquette/Gudule fell to pieces. | |
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| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_cf8135c1 | type |
Just Whistle | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_cf8135c1 | comment |
Just Whistle: Quasimodo gives Esmeralda a literal whistle for this purpose. | |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_cf8135c1 | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_d001c42c | type |
Anti-Villain | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_d001c42c | comment |
Anti-Villain: Claude Frollo was originally a good man. When baby Quasimodo was abandoned on the cathedral's foundlings bed, nobody would take him because of his ugliness, except Frollo, who raised him like a son. He also raised his younger brother Jehan after their parents died and supported him later, even though he disapproved of Jehan's lifestyle. He did evil things only because of his obsessive and unrequited love for Esmeralda, and it's described how much he's suffering (being aware that you're slowly going insane is NOT a pleasant process.) | |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_d001c42c | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_dde7da12 | type |
Come to Gawk | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_dde7da12 | comment |
Come to Gawk: The "Pope of Fools" ugly-face contest is essentially this en masse. | |
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| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_ddeaea82 | type |
Miscarriage of Justice | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_ddeaea82 | comment |
Miscarriage of Justice: Esmeralda is sentenced to death and eventually hanged for stabbing Phoebus, which was actually done by Frollo. | |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_ddeaea82 | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_dfb71617 | type |
Male Gaze | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_dfb71617 | comment |
Male Gaze: Every description of Esmeralda. Did we really need the details of her half-dressed state, her "waving locks, more lustrous than the raven's wing", her "half-naked shoulders" and "bare legs" — as she's being dragged to the gallows? | |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_dfb71617 | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_e4b69188 | type |
Very Loosely Based on a True Story | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_e4b69188 | comment |
Very Loosely Based on a True Story: The "Court of Miracles" concept was an actual urban legend of the Paris of old — specifically, that there was a place in the city where the poor beggars who went out during the day revealed themselves to actually be nothing but cons and thieves teaching others to do the same. To the best of our current knowledge, there were a lot of actual poor populations in Paris, but there's no direct evidence any of them were an actual court of miracles as opposed to, you know, just normal poor people. | |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_e4b69188 | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_e9db9908 | type |
Younger Than They Look | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_e9db9908 | comment |
Younger Than They Look: Archdeacon Claude Frollo is only 36 years old, yet he is nearly bald, with only a few white hairs on his head. | |
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| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_ea24a918 | type |
Lost in Imitation | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_ea24a918 | comment |
Lost in Imitation: Quasimodo is originally a secondary character, but his role has been exaggerated and romanticized in the public mind through many adaptations (the English title referring directly to him doesn't help, either). The architectural themes have generally been minimized. | |
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| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_ec3ff1f7 | type |
In Which a Trope Is Described | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_ec3ff1f7 | comment |
In Which a Trope Is Described: The chapter titles, as was the style in the day. For example, "The Inconveniences of Following a Pretty Woman through the Streets in the Evening" or "The Retreat in which Monsieur Louis of France says his Prayers". | |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_ec3ff1f7 | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_ec9a5f50 | type |
Deconstructed Character Archetype | |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_ec9a5f50 | comment |
Deconstructed Character Archetype: Phoebus is a fitting deconstruction of the Knight in Shining Armor, as he does manage to save Esmeralda from Quasimodo and Frollo in the beginning, although rather than being chivalrous and noble, he is a drunk, a womanizer, and a bully, with virtually no idealistic qualities, behaving more like... well, like a medieval soldier. Likewise, Esmeralda, as the 16-year-old Damsel in Distress, is also fickle, foolish, and hopelessly idealistic. | |
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Promotion to Parent | |
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Promotion to Parent: Frollo's parents die while he's a young man, leaving him to raise his baby brother, and then Quasimodo, whom he adopts. | |
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Together in Death | |
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Together in Death: Centuries later, excavators find the skeleton of Quasimodo embracing that of Esmeralda. When they touch them the bones crumble into dust. | |
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Love Makes You Evil | |
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Love Makes You Evil: Frollo's unhealthy obsession with Esmeralda drives the plot. | |
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Only the Leads Get a Downer Ending | |
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Only the Leads Get a Downer Ending: By the end of the book everyone has suffered. Claude Frollo is thrown from Notre Dame by Quasimodo and dies, Esméralda is hanged for the murder of Phoebus (although he never died) and Quasimodo tears Esméralda's body down and hides in the catacombs with it, where he starves himself to death near her body and his skeleton crumbles when they're found. Phoebus gets the "happy" ending of marrying Fleur-de-Lys, but Hugo informs the reader he's likely to have an Awful Wedded Life. Pierre Gringoire (based on an actual playwright) is successful, though, as he becomes a playwright of tragedies that get him positive attention. | |
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Attempted Rape | |
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Attempted Rape: Frollo tries to rape Esmeralda one night in the bell tower until Quasimodo comes and nearly kills him before he recognizes Frollo. When he does, he completely submits to him, and Esmeralda uses a dagger to threaten Frollo out of the room. | |
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Shoo Out the Clowns | |
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Shoo Out the Clowns: Jehan Frollo provided most of the comic relief in an otherwise serious story. His death acts as a gigantic "Bad End Incoming" flag. | |
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