ESSAY ON: A Brief Summary of Victor Hugo’s “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” (Notre Dame de Paris, Vol. XII)

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This research paper: This is a 3 page paper summarizing Victor Hugo’s “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”. Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885) was considered one of France’s greatest writers of the 19th century. His work “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” or “Notre Dame de Paris, Volume XII” was written in 1831 and in Hugo’s preface to that volume he writes how he was influenced by the dark Gothic writing he had once seen on the walls during a visit of his to Notre Dame. For Hugo it was that fact that the words had been inscribed on the wall many centuries previously that impacted him as he tried to visualize the cathedral during the Middle Ages; an image which resulted in the novel. The novel depicts a darker time in Paris during the 15th century when the city had criminal and influential elements which led to the eventual demise of the central characters of the loyal hunchback Quasimodo, the gypsy Esmeralda and Dom Frollo who deceived and used them for his own selfish desires. Bibliography lists 2 sources.


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