1. Esmeralda’s view of love

Esmeralda is a sixteen-year-old beauty who is good at singing and dancing. She was taken away from her home by Gypsies since she was a child. He was stolen and grew up among wandering entertainers, so he was not recognized and accepted by the strict upper class society at that time. When she was robbed late at night, she was rescued by the handsome captain of the royal guard Phoebus, and she fell in love at first sight, and he was also captured by her beauty.

Esmeralda, like all the heroines in Qiong Yao's novels, once she meets the one she loves, she will fall in love with him without any regrets. Regardless of whether this kind of love has a result, regardless of whether the other person really loves me, or even knowing that this kind of love cannot have a result, or even knowing that the other person does not really love me, he still loves the other person passionately, and still has no regard for such an illusory love. Love lasts forever.

Esmeralda not only has a perfect body, but also has a noble, pure and kind heart. At the critical moment when the poet Gringoire was about to be hanged by the Beggar Kingdom, she did not hesitate to save the poet by willing to marry him. The poet was shocked by her beauty and nobility, immediately fell in love with her involuntarily, and hoped to become her true husband. But Esmeralda calmly rejected him for the love idol in her mind: "I can only love a man who can protect me." And told him that marrying him was just to save his life, so she could only Maintain a nominal relationship with him as husband and wife.

When Archdeacon Claude used various despicable means to force Esmeralda to accept his love, Esmeralda would rather die than obey. When Claude was in prison, in order to gain Esmeralda's love, he deceived her that her beloved Phoebus had been killed by him, telling her not to have any illusions, and promised that as long as she agreed to his love, could save her from a death sentence. Esmeralda's answer was "If he is already dead, why do you still advise me to live?" When Claude gave Esmeralda a choice in front of the gallows for the last time, although at this time Esmeralda Meralda already knew that her beloved Phoebus was still alive, and she had also found her biological mother who had been missing for fifteen years. She wanted to live very much, but when faced with Claude's advances, her answer was: "Hanging" "I hate you even more than you do."

Quasimodo, the incarnation of "ugliness" in the novel, first appears as Esmeralda's persecutor. In front of Esmeralda, he was ordered to rob Esmeralda late at night. When Quasimodo was arrested by the royal guards because of a failed robbery, and was tied to a pillar of shame under the scorching sun and whipped in public, he longed for the crowd to give him some water, but no one paid attention to him. When he was about to faint, what he didn't expect was that the person who bravely gave him water in front of everyone was the angel-like Esmeralda.

Esmeralda's repayment of kindness deeply shocked Quasimodo, who was deformed and ugly in appearance, because in his heart he also had the same strong love and feelings as other people. Later, he risked his life to rescue Esmeralda from the execution rack, but his ugly and deformed appearance always spanned the gap that could never be crossed between him and Esmeralda. Mr. Hugo finally crosses this gap by dying at the end of the novel, and I think that may indeed be the only feasible way.

2. Phoebus's view of love

Phoebus is the captain of the Royal Guards. He is talented and handsome. He spends his time among the upper class and is a rich lady. The ideal prince charming. The smart Phoebus is very good at using his effective resources. He chooses his cousin Lily, who has a rich dowry, to be his fiancée, and at the same time pursues the beauty of Esmeralda. From him, we can clearly see the figures of those smart men in today's society, who are good at dancing. "The red flag does not fall at home, and the colorful flags flutter outside."

The Hateful Story of Phoebus The situation is that he only loves the beauty of Esmeralda, but does not cherish Esmeralda's life at all.

Esmeralda was sentenced to death for the murder of Phoebus. However, after Phoebus escaped from the hospital during treatment, in order to prevent his scandal from being exposed, he did not testify against the real murderer in order to save his life. Esmeralda's life. There are not a few such hypocrites in life. Although they are usually very good at talking about love, vowing to each other, sweet words, and extravagant talk, when the critical moment comes, love will immediately become worthless to them, because in the eyes of these people, In my heart, I have never understood what true love is. Volume 2 Chapter 3 Repaying Evil with Kindness

Looking carefully before leaving, I found that the circle formed by the crowd was much larger than the area required for warmth

And the audience was not They came here in droves simply because they were attracted by the beautiful sight of thousands of bundles of firewood burning.

It turned out that there was a girl dancing in a wide open space between the crowd and the fireworks.

Whether this girl is a human being, a fairy, or an angel, Gringoire has no idea

Although he is a skeptical philosopher and a satirical poet, he will not accept it at first glance. No, because

he was fascinated by the dazzling sight.

She is not tall, but her slender figure is straight and slender, so he seems to

think she is very tall. Her skin is tan, but you can guess that during the day, she looks like an Andalusian girl or a Roman girl with a beautiful golden sheen. Her slender little feet, also of Andalusian appearance, looked snug and comfortable in elegant shoes. She danced, twirled, and swirled on an old Persian carpet casually placed under her feet; every time she twirled, her face was radiant. His face flashed in front of you, and his big black eyes cast a lightning-like gaze on you.

Everyone around her had their eyes fixed and their mouths opened wide. Sure enough

it was true, she was flying like this, with two round and clean arms raised above her head, beating

a Basque tambourine to a buzzing sound; Her head is slender and weak, and she moves as quickly as a wasp; she wears a golden corset, smooth and wrinkle-free, and her robe is colorful and fluffy; her shoulders are Naked, the skirt is lifted from time to time, revealing a pair of beautiful thin legs; her hair is black, and her eyes are like flames; in short, this is really a beauty that is made of heaven.

" Gringoire thought to himself.

At this moment, one of the "elf's" hair braids came loose, and a brass hairpin stuck in the braid rolled to the ground.

"Oh! No! This is a gypsy girl," Gringoire blurted out

Any illusions suddenly disappeared.

She started dancing again. She picked up two swords from the ground, put the sword ends on her forehead, and then turned the swords in one direction, while her body turned in the opposite direction.

It’s true, she is indeed a gypsy girl. Having said that, although the illusion of Langois has disappeared, the whole picturesque landscape still retains its charming

enchantment. The fireworks illuminated her, and the intense red light was brilliant and brilliant.

It flickered on the faces of the onlookers and on the brown forehead of the gypsy girl.

And towards the depths of the square. In the pale reflection, we can see the densely cracked and dark ancient facade of the Pillar Pavilion and the swaying figures on the stone arms on both sides of the gallows.

Among the thousands of faces flushed by the fire, one seemed to be staring at the dancer more intently than all the other

other faces. This is a man's face, stern, calm and gloomy. What kind of clothes this man is wearing cannot be seen because

he is blocked by the crowd around him. He is no more than thirty-five years old;

But he is already bald, and only his temples are still there. There are a few sparse and gray hair; the forehead is wide and high, and wrinkles are beginning to be carved; however, those deep-set eyes are bursting with energy. Bring out extraordinary youthful sparks, fiery vitality, and deep lust.

He kept pouring all these emotions into the gypsy girl; when he saw this

28-year-old, crazy girl flying and spinning , when everyone looked at him in ecstasy, his whimsical expression looked increasingly gloomy.

A smile flashed across his lips from time to time, and at the same time he let out a sigh, but the smile was more painful than the sigh. In the star-studded French literary world of the 19th century, Victor Hugo can be said to be the brightest star. He was a great poet, a well-known playwright, a novelist, and the standard-bearer and leader of the French Romantic literary movement. This great work "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" is his first romantic novel that caused a sensation. Its literary value and profound social significance make it still popular after nearly two centuries. Today it has been reprinted and reprinted over and over again, and thus came into my hands.

While I was reading this book, I felt a strong "contrast between beauty and ugliness". The characters and events in the book, even if they originate from real life, have been greatly exaggerated and intensified. Under the author's strong ink and color, they constitute a gorgeous and strange picture, forming a sharp and even incredible story of kindness and kindness. The contrast between evil, beauty and ugliness.

The plot of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" always revolves around three people: the kind and beautiful girl Esmeralda, the cruel and hypocritical deputy bishop of Notre Dame Claude Frollo and the ugly but noble in heart Quasimodo the Bell Ringer.

Bohemian girl Esmeralda is the darling of Parisian homeless people and makes a living by performing on the streets. She is innocent, compassionate and willing to help people. Because she couldn't bear to see an innocent man being executed, she accepted the poet Gringoire as her nominal husband to save his life; when she saw Quasimodo being whipped under the scorching sun, only she would sympathize with him and bring him water. to the lips of the bell-ringer who cryeth out for thirst. Such a noble-hearted girl was slandered as a "witch" and a "murderer" by the church and the court, and was sentenced to hanging. The author portrays this character as the embodiment of beauty and kindness, completely unifying her inner beauty with her external beauty, so as to arouse readers' infinite sympathy for her, and thus generate strong resentment against the feudal church and royal power.

As for the Archdeacon Claude and the bell-ringer Quasimodo, these are two completely opposite images. On the surface, Claude is sanctimonious and leads a life of austerity and asceticism, but in his heart he longs for sexual pleasure and is full of envy of worldly enjoyments. Selfish, insidious, and unscrupulous. And Quasimodo, this hunchbacked, one-eyed, deaf and lame deformed man, has been discriminated against and bullied by the world since he was a child. It was with Esmeralda that he experienced the warmth of people's hearts for the first time. This weirdo with a vulgar and savage appearance has since then placed all his life and passion on Esmeralda, and can go through fire and water for her. Sacrificing everything for her happiness.

This extreme contrast between beauty and ugliness, the absolute opposition between nobility and evil, gives the novel a shocking power that can sweep away all our thoughts and emotions. This may be the charm of romantic novels.

In "Notre Dame de Paris", the author describes the lowest class people, vagrants and beggars in Paris with great sympathy. They were ragged and rough in their manners, but possessed virtues far superior to those of the so-called educated and civilized world. The virtues of mutual help and friendship, integrity, courage and self-sacrifice.

In the novel, the scene in which the homeless people of Paris attack Notre Dame to save Esmeralda is tragic, fierce, generous and thrilling. It is obviously integrated to a certain extent with the heroic spirit shown by the Paris people in the July Revolution and the destruction of Saint-Germain by the Paris people. Events at the cathedral of Mann and the Archbishop's Palace of Paris. At this point in the novel, the characters also predict that the people will rise up and destroy the Bastille, hinting at the outbreak of the Great Revolution in 1789