Interpretation of Notre Dame de Paris

Notre Dame de Paris is Hugo's first large-scale romantic novel. The novel tells the ups and downs of France in the15th century, exposes the hypocrisy of religion, declares the bankruptcy of asceticism, and describes the kindness and helplessness of the lower working people. It is the representative work of Hugo's humanitarian thought.

The plot of the musical Notre Dame de Paris is basically the same as that of the novel, and the characters have not changed much. Relatively speaking, the main role adjustment is the role of foreigner in the play. Besides playing the nominal husband of Bud and gypsy woman Aymis Rada in the novel, he also acts as the narrator of the story and plays the role of telling the plot and transitional paragraphs.

Characters in the play:

Quasimodo:

One-eyed hunchback, ugly, he is a bell ringer hiding in Notre Dame, that is, the hunchback of Notre Dame, and he fell in love with the gypsy beauty Ais Milada at first sight.

Frollo:

Bishop of Notre Dame and guardian of quasimodo. False in appearance, but sinister in fact. He has a strong desire to possess Milada.

Phoebe:

The captain of the Royal Guards who owns his fiancee Lily still can't help falling in love with Esmeralda.

Emilada:

Beautiful, unrestrained and kind gypsy women quasimodo, frollo and Phoebe are all fascinated by her.

Green fruit:

Bud, the nominal husband of Esther Milada, is also the narrator of the story in the play.

Lily:

Captain Phoebe's fiancee, from a superior family, is full of jealousy and hatred for Esmeralda.

Chloropan:

The discriminated immigrants were Gypsies together with Milada, and later became the leaders of Gypsies.

Notre Dame tells a story: quasimodo, an ugly hunchback and kind-hearted bell ringer, fell in love with the beautiful gypsy woman Este Milada, but he knew he was ugly and only dared to hide his love in his heart. At the same time, Bishop frollo of Notre Dame and Captain Phobos of the Royal Guard also fell in love with Esmeralda. Frollo served God all his life. He knows that love between men and women is taboo for clergy, but he still can't extricate himself. Phoebe has a beautiful fiancee, but she still wants Milada. Shortly after the opening of the play, quasimodo, frollo and Phoebe sang Beauty together, expressing their love for Esmeralda. This song has sold 3 million copies in the French single market. Milada later fell in love with Phobos, which made frollo feel extremely jealous. When he had a tryst with Phobos in Milada, he secretly stabbed Phobos, then framed Milada for him and threatened her to commit suicide, otherwise she would be put to death. Milada, determined to die, was hanged by frollo. When quasimodo learned that Elsa Milada was about to be sentenced to death, he went to the charity court to rescue Elsa Milada and hid her in Notre Dame. Soon, Clopin, the leader of the Gypsies, led a large number of troops to attack Notre Dame, trying to rescue Esther Milada. However, his Ukrainian people were defeated by the Royal Guard led by Phoebe, and Clopin was killed in the battle.

Quasimodo thought that Phobos was trying to save Aesop Milada, and he also knew that Aesop Milada liked Phobos, so he begged Bishop frollo to give it to Aesop Milada. However, Phobos has changed his mind. For his own future interests, he dared not offend his fiancee Lily, and even conspired with Bishop frollo to sentence Ace Milada to death.

Quasimodo later saw through the sinister intentions of frollo and Phobos. In anger, quasimodo pushed frollo down from the top of the bell tower, and then rushed to rescue Ace Milada, but it was too late. In the cellar of the Parisian cemetery, quasimodo wept bitterly with Esmeralda's body, and then fell beside Esmeralda in the form of double suicide.

Musicals, like novels, have tragic endings. At the end, quasimodo couldn't help crying while holding Esmeralda's body and singing Dance, Esmeralda. Compared with the happy ending of the Hollywood animated film "Notre Dame de Paris hunchback", the tragic ending of novels and musicals is many times more touching.