April Fool's Day. People in Paris carried the deformed "King of Fools" and quasimodo, the bell ringer of Notre Dame, and cheered and marched in the glaive Square in front of Notre Dame. Gypsy woman Esmeralda danced with a lamb for entertainment, and the poor poet Gan Guo Wa was fascinated by her beauty and dancing. He heard her moving singing at night and couldn't help following her. At this moment, two men suddenly jumped out and took her away. He recognized one of them as quasimodo, who was extremely ugly, and he was terrified.
Gan Guo Wa stumbled after waking up and strayed into the lobby of the Miracle Palace in the dark, where beggars and vagrants gathered. An intruder will be put to death unless a wandering woman is willing to marry him. At a critical juncture, Esmeralda suddenly appeared, and it turned out that it was the captain of the patrol bow and arrow team, Forbes, who saved her. She is kind-hearted and can't bear to see this young man who has never met die. She expressed her willingness to marry him and form a nominal husband and wife with him. The next day, quasimodo was tied to the square, thirsty under the scorching sun, and was ridiculed and abused by onlookers. Only Esmeralda let bygones be bygones and brought water to her mouth, which moved this seemingly stupid man to tears.
Esmeralda fell in love with the handsome Phobos. They met at night, but Phobos was stabbed and she was arrested as a witch. Just as she was about to be executed, quasimodo rushed into the execution ground and rescued her to the Notre Dame bell tower, because it was a place where secular laws had no jurisdiction. For her happiness, quasimodo went to look for Phobos, but Phobos, a playboy, had left her to look for another lover. Floro, the vice bishop of Notre Dame, tried to pester her. It turned out that he looked hypocritical, but in fact he was evil at heart and had long coveted Esmeralda's beauty. He ordered quasimodo to kidnap her, then hid out of the window and stabbed Phobos with a dagger. Quasimodo, adopted by Floro, has always been obedient to him, but now he is trying to protect Esmeralda from his abuse.
The court decided to arrest Esmeralda, and the tramp came to the rescue, which was suppressed by the king's army and suffered heavy casualties. When Floro took advantage of the chaos, she lied to Gan Guo Wa, took her out of the back door of Notre Dame and forced her to obey herself. After being resolutely rejected, Floro became angry from embarrassment, handed her over to a hidden nun and called the officers and men himself. Sister Yin recognized Esmeralda's own daughter who was lost 16 years ago, but when she saw that she was caught by the officers and men, there was nothing she could do. In grief, she hit her head against a stone and died.
Standing on the top floor of Notre Dame, floro smiled proudly when he saw Esmeralda hanged on the gallows. Quasimodo finally recognized floro's ferocious face, swooped down, pushed him down from the top of the bell tower and fell dead. He came to the execution ground himself, holding Esmeralda's body and hiding in the cemetery. A few years later, people found the remains of their hugs.
Notre Dame is the first large-scale romantic novel by French writer victor hugo. It wrote a story that happened in France in the15th century: Claude, the vice bishop of Notre Dame, was hypocritical and snake-hearted, and loved first and then hated, persecuting the gypsy woman Esmeralda. Quasimodo, the ugly and kind bell ringer, gave his life to save the girl. The novel exposes the hypocrisy of religion, declares the bankruptcy of asceticism, praises the kindness, friendship and self-sacrifice of the lower working people, and embodies Hugo's humanitarian thought.
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This book was banned in Russia during the reign of Tsar Nicholas I. Because Hugo was active in thought, inclined to bourgeois liberalism and sympathized with the emerging proletarian revolution, the conservative and stubborn Tsar ordered that all Hugo's works be banned from being published in Russia.
Notre Dame de Paris artistically reproduces the true history of how the court and the church colluded to oppress the people and how the people fought bravely with the two forces during the rule of King Louis Xi of France more than 400 years ago. In the novel, Esmeralda, a gypsy woman and quasimodo, a disabled person with an ugly face, are presented to readers as the embodiment of true beauty, while what people see in frollo, a vice bishop, and Phoebus, a noble soldier, is cruel, empty mind and sinful lust. The author organically links touching stories with vivid and rich drama scenes, which makes this novel extremely readable. The novel is full of romanticism and uses comparative writing techniques. This is an artistic model using the principle of romantic contrast. The publication of this novel made Hugo's reputation even louder.
/kloc-in the 9th century, victor hugo was the most dazzling star in the brilliant French literary world. He is a great poet, a famous playwright and novelist, and also the flag bearer and leader of the French romantic literature movement. Notre Dame de Paris, a great work, is his first sensational romantic novel. Its literary value and far-reaching significance to society make it reprinted again and again today after nearly two centuries.
In the process of reading this book, we can feel a strong "contrast between beauty and ugliness". The characters and events in the book, even if they come from real life, have been greatly exaggerated and strengthened. Under the writer's rich colors, they formed a gorgeous and strange picture, forming a bright and even incredible contrast between good and evil, beauty and ugliness.
Bohemian girl Esmeralda is the darling of Paris tramps, who make a living by busking in the streets. She is innocent, compassionate and helpful. Because she couldn't bear to see an innocent man executed, she accepted the poet Gan Guo Wa as her nominal husband to save his life. Seeing quasimodo being whipped in the scorching sun, only she will feel pity and send water to the mouth of the thirsty bell ringer. Such a noble-minded girl was slandered as a "witch" and a "murderer" by the church and the court, and was sentenced to hang. It highlighted the irresponsibility of the church and the court at that time, and calmed the public's anger by means of false accusation. The author portrays Esmeralda as the embodiment of beauty and goodness, which makes her spiritual beauty and external beauty completely unified, thus arousing readers' infinite sympathy for her, and then generating strong resentment against feudal churches and kingship.
As for the Bishop Claude and the bell ringer quasimodo, these are two completely opposite images. On the surface, Claude lived a hard and abstinent spiritual life, but deep down, he longed for lewd enjoyment and was full of jealousy for worldly enjoyment. He is selfish, insidious and unscrupulous. Quasimodo, a hunchbacked, one-eyed, deaf-mute and lame freak, was discriminated and bullied by the world since he was a child. In Esmeralda, he first experienced the warmth of people's hearts. Since then, this eccentric with a vulgar and savage appearance has pinned all his life and enthusiasm on Esmeralda. He can go through fire and water for her and sacrifice everything for her happiness.
This extreme contrast between beauty and ugliness, and the absolute opposition between sublime and evil make the novel have a shocking power, which can affect all our thoughts and feelings. This may be the charm of romance novels.
In Notre Dame de Paris, the author describes the lowest people, vagrants and beggars in Paris with great sympathy. They are ragged and rude, but they have virtues far superior to the so-called educated civilized world: mutual assistance and friendship, integrity and courage, and self-sacrifice In the novel, the scene of Paris tramps attacking Notre Dame to save Esmeralda is tragic, intense, generous and thrilling. Show the solidarity and mutual assistance of the homeless.
As a milestone of romantic literature, one of the most obvious signs of this novel is Hugo's sharp contrast between good and evil, beauty and ugliness. But this contrast is not based on the traditional way of beauty and goodness. Ugliness and evil are concentrated on two different types of characters, or simply avoid the ugly side, but let them cross each other: people with beautiful appearance may not be kind inside; Those who are ugly in appearance may not be beautiful or bad in heart.
Notre Dame de Paris, with its immortal wisdom, has been silently watching the rolling river and all beings for more than 800 years, and is a witness to many human tragedies and comedies! In Hugo's novels, it seems to have the breath of life, sheltering Esmeralda, confirming Claude's crimes, lamenting the heroic sacrifice of all heroes who tried to resist the dark rule, and praising quasimodo's chivalrous behavior of stepping down all wolves, tigers, leopards and all executioners. It even merged with quasimodo. quasimodo was not only the master of the deformed man's soul, but also the support of his strange body. Under Hugo's brilliant pen, it came to life, and at the same time, it added the brilliance of great writers with a symphony of destiny carved, described and interpreted. The beautiful Notre Dame de Paris is a gem of Gothic architecture. Hugo had a strong interest in architectural art, especially Gothic architectural art, as early as his youth. In his youth, he prepared for at least three years and became familiar with medieval French society, especially Notre Dame. At the same time, I extensively read relevant materials and mastered all the mysteries of the buildings that the French are proud of, which is convenient for 6438+00. Hiding in the dark corner of one of the two towering bell towers, he found such a hand-carved Greek character on the wall: fate! It is said that the dark forces dominate the fate of mankind, but in fact it dominates everyone in that ignorant era, that is, the devil. Its ubiquitous fatalism deeply touched the author. Indeed, Notre Dame de Paris was written to describe the word "fate", and the great humanist Hugo sought the true meaning of fate. Both Claude and quasimodo are, in the final analysis, social people. Their inner division and conflict reflect the division and conflict between theocracy and human rights, ignorance and knowledge, huge and heavy dark system and struggling and fragile individuals, which finally leads to the tragic ending of all the characters in the tragedy. The fate we see in this masterpiece is to exert its sweeping power in a specific environment, that is, the medieval French capital, a society full of ignorance, superstition and barbaric rule. Notre Dame de Paris, as a masterpiece of romanticism, is precisely because the author strives to conform to the primitive nature and depicts the real life of medieval French society. In the form of superb techniques and romanticism, it is condensed and refined in this masterpiece, showing their distinctive characteristics and rich implications, and winning another victory for romanticism to break the rigid model of classicism after Ainani. This is an angry and tragic symphony of destiny.
First of all, the author does not observe from a secular perspective, but calmly thinks about beauty and ugliness from a specific artistic perspective. The four characters depicted in this paper, Esmeralda, quasimodo, Vice Bishop Jarod and young officers, firstly, the author puts forward the traditional beauty, that is, the beauty of Esmeralda. This is a woman who looks like a fairy. Everyone is fascinated by her. More importantly, she has an incomparably pure heart, which is reflected in her intrinsic value. The author arranged a goat as a foil. However, it is precisely because of the beauty of the young girl Esmeralda that three people are watching, one is a young officer, the other is a priest, and the other is quasimodo. First of all, young officers, ugly models like us. He is clean on the outside, but ugly on the inside. Even though he already has a fiancee, when he saw Esmeralda, he couldn't resist his inner desire, deceived him and tried to realize the possession of Esmeralda. The second is Garaude, who wears a holy coat, but has an extremely ugly heart inside. He threatened Esmeralda, framed him and so on. The third person is quasimodo. His appearance is so terrible that all people call him a beast, but it is precisely because this beast contains a holy and pure heart. Specifically, his father's love for the priest, his love for Esmeralda, and his devotion to his profession or God (he rings the bell for the church every day) all highlight his extremely noble soul.
Quasimodo
This is a rethinking of beauty caused by a perfect woman. At the end of the story, the deaths of Esmeralda and quasimodo are arranged, which proves that the author's thought is a kind of deep thinking and reflection on secular beauty. quasimodo threw the priest from the upstairs of Notre Dame, which is an intrinsic virtue value. This novel has influenced generations. The reason is that there will always be different aesthetic and value orientations in the changes of the world, and there will always be different values of beauty, but beauty always comes from people's inner beauty. Such beauty is not only a reflection on life, but also a reflection on the meaning of life and everything in the world.
Victor hugo (1802.2.26 ~1885.5.22), the leader of the romantic literature movement in the 9th century and a humanitarian representative, was called "French Shakespeare".
Hugo was born in Sang Song, Du province, near Switzerland in the east of France. His father was awarded the title of general by Napoleon's brother, King Joseph Bonaparte of Spain. Hugo was stationed in Spain with his father when he was a child. Hugo was very talented since he was a child. He began to write poetry at the age of nine, returned to Paris to study at the age of 10, and graduated from high school to study in law school, but his interest was writing. /kloc-won the first prize in the poetry competition of the French Academy at the age of 0/5, won the first prize in the "Hundred Flowers Poetry Competition" at the age of 0/7, and published a collection of poems "Ode to Poetry" at the age of 20. He was awarded by Louis Stanislas Xavier for praising the restoration of Bourbon dynasty, and then wrote a lot of exotic poems. Later, he was disappointed with the Bourbon Dynasty and the July Dynasty and became a pacifist. He also wrote many poetic dramas and plays, as well as several novels with distinctive characteristics, and carried out his thoughts.
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Due to the influence of family, Hugo's initial poems mostly praised royalism and religion. After his first novel, Han Islam, came out, it won the appreciation of novelist Notil, and became attached to Notil from then on, prompting Hugo to gradually turn to romanticism and gradually become the leader of romanticism. Hugo belongs to the French people and to the people all over the world. His great spirit and immortal works are the wealth of all mankind!
184 1 Hugo was elected as an academician of the French Academy, 1845 was elected as a member of the House of Lords, 1848 was elected as a representative of the Republic of * * after the February Revolution, 18565438 Charles Louis Napolé on Bonaparte proclaimed himself emperor. Hugo rose up and was forced into exile. During his exile, he wrote
1870 After the French bloodless revolution overthrew Charles Louis Napolé on Bonaparte, Hugo returned to Paris. Hugo's life works cover almost all fields of literature. Critics believe that his creative ideas are closest to modern ideas. After his death, France mourned and was buried in the "Pantheon" where French celebrities gathered to commemorate cards.
Hugo experienced almost all the major events in France in the19th century. He wrote many poems, novels, plays, various essays, literary comments and political articles in his life, and was an influential figure in France.
Hugo's creative process lasted for more than 60 years, and his works were of equal length, including 26 volumes of poems, 20 volumes of novels, 79 volumes of scripts 12 and 2 1 volumes of philosophical works, which added a brilliant cultural heritage to the treasure house of French literature and human culture. His masterpieces include Notre Dame de Paris, Les Miserables, Marine Labors, Smiling Man, 93 and so on. Poems such as Light and Shadow, Meditation Collection and Punishment Collection. Short stories: The Tragedy of Normandy, etc. Drama: Onani, etc.