Chapter 344: The Tragedy of Good and Evil

Many literary critics have dismissed Vice-Bishop Claude as a sanctimonious and instinctive beast. I don't think so, he was a victim of religion and an important role in Hugo's expression of anti-feudal and anti-religion. He was Quasimodo's adoptive father, he raised Quasimodo for twenty years, and he himself said: I adopted him, fed and clothed him, I loved him, he became almost everything to me. He had a younger brother, and after the death of both his parents, he made taking care of his younger brother his first priority, so he chose to be a bishop, chose responsibility, gave all his love to his younger brother, and spoiled him as a scoundrel. He respects learning and has a deep understanding of how important knowledge is to him. Can such a person be said to be a person with low morals and no humanity? However, there is no doubt that all the conspiracies in the book were designed by him and operated by him. This is a distorted passion, more than 30 years of religious education has forced him to suppress his human desires and disguise himself as a gentleman, he has been struggling with his inner struggle, his morality, doctrine and indulgence, the contradiction of the flesh and soul are tormenting his soul all the time. He also fantasized that he would go to a paradise with Esmeralda to live a life without contention, and he also mistakenly thought that after Esmeralda's death, he sent out a painful *, but he had to submit to ANATKH (fate), so he gave birth to hatred from love, and the more he loved, the more he hated, and he thought that his pain and his failure were all caused by Esmeralda, so he took despicable and insidious means again and again, which was the final choice of a poor and hateful person. However, compared to Quasimodo's glorious image, Claude is particularly ugly. He was jealous, when Esmeralda was taken to the gallows without clothes, his hatred was actually due to the fact that he felt that Esmeralda's body was seen by everyone, and he couldn't tolerate other people's sharing, not to mention that this kind of sharing was really nonsense! Instead, Quasimodo snatched back

The first thing Esmeralda did was toss her a bag of clothes and hid away. Claude was not happy to see that Esmeralda was not dead, but gritted his teeth when he felt that she might be with her lover. He is selfish, every time he expresses his love to Esmeralda, he talks at length, seemingly sincere but the embodiment of selfishness, he does not care about Esmeralda's feelings at all, he just wants to possess. And Quasimodo uses two vases to convey his love, and he would rather be tormented by love than see her suffer. He said to Esmeralda: If you want me to fall from the bell tower, I don't even need to say a word, just a moment's eye. A man and a woman are united with each other to form an angel and enter heaven.

This is Esmeralda's interpretation of love, and apparently, Phibis lived up to this statement. The true love that Esmeralda thought was nothing more than a playboy on the spot. However, the innocent, simple, kind, and passionate Esmeralda could not extricate herself at all, and she was even willing to be the mistress of Philippes, to be despised and despised. Until the end, she remained loyal to Phebes. Although this kind of pure love makes me feel a little helpless, it is a great extraordinary! However, the gorgeous and handsome Phobes was only a flowery, full* man, who could flirt with his fiancée while Esmeralda was hanged, without leaving the slightest trace of love and pity for the woman who was willing to give his life for him. This kind of person is worse than Claude!

In the book, the poet also depicts other loves, Baggett's love for her daughter, her ecstasy at being reunited with her after fifteen years of waiting, and the madness that had previously turned into reason to protect her. And then there's Grangoire, the quintessential coward who is greedy for life and afraid of death, and Esmeralda has saved his life, but he has trapped her in the tiger's den. He embodied Hugo's contempt for the so-called philosophers and poets of the Middle Ages. Also, brotherly love, Esmeralda said that friendship is two fingers on one hand, but the soul communicates but does not merge. When the rogue homeless men known as mobs and hooligans learn that their Esmeralda is trapped in the bell tower, they risk their lives to save their sisters, even if the blood is pouring out.

Hugo depicts the Middle Ages under the rule of the Church, "Notre Dame de Paris" is a sad song of innocent and kind people persecuted and brilliant under the feudal autocracy, and Esmeralda and Quasimodo, two upright and beautiful souls, were also forced to die by the Church and the autocratic dynasty. But at the same time, he also pinned his ideals on the characters he loved. There are contrasts everywhere in the book, almost every two people and every two things can be compared. It is not only the contrast of love for Esmeralda, the beauty and the ugly, the good and the evil, the loyalty and the betrayal, the reason and the instinct, the democracy and the autocracy, the poet expresses the opposites with extreme exaggeration and makes the heart of the person suffer a strong impact.

Although this is a tragedy, the poet does not describe it in a serious tone, on the contrary, many of the words are full of humor. He described the diplomat William as "digging for his life", and happily Louis XI, Europe's best pundit, admired him. Look, even the king didn't let go of the jokes. When Grangoire encountered bad luck again and again, he said: If the river had been a little warmer, I would have committed suicide by throwing myself into the river! This sentence vividly expresses the image of a cowardly and hypocritical pseudo-philosopher. When Quasimodo was tied to a stake, he was insulted by the people, and the playful words of you and me seemed humorous but were actually sad. Is this a manifestation of the numbness and lack of humanity of the common people unique to the Middle Ages? How can there be less such unprovoked hatred in our society now? I thought that such ironic scenes are still countless in our current society! What's even more interesting is that many of the philosophical words that I thought were the philosophical thoughts of modern and contemporary writers are reflected everywhere in "Notre Dame de Paris": at least this sister will not sarcastically mock you to your face, if you are kind to her, she will always repay you, even if sometimes the answer is not enough; Every camel was majestic, every stammer, every deaf whispered, and at most he felt a little hard of hearing. How perfect these words are, and after making people laugh, they feel endless sadness at the end of the book. The title of the book is "Notre Dame de Paris", although the focus of this book is not on this famous building, but the poet's vision of architecture reflects an era, which makes me really understand in this book why I have such a deep shock and loneliness in the Palace Museum, and each building is full of its pious calm thoughts. A dynasty is not embodied in words and words, but it is in this brick and tile, how vast and profound!

There are so many things I want to say about Notre Dame de Paris, and each of these small themes can be used to illustrate thousands of words, and I believe that every time I read it, I will have a different feeling. Most importantly, it taught me how to distinguish between beauty and ugliness, and how to feel love and hate. This sad song of the religious dynasty, accompanied by the bells of Quasimodo and the dance of Esmeralda, will forever resound in the history of mankind.