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Thanks for the great lesson, apologies for not being there, I have not read the book so unable to find quotations. Apologies for abrupt cutoff. See you on Tuesday.
Beth’s Summer Reading Homework
Love in Victor Hugo’s book, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, is represented fully and in extraordinary detail.
A man who is deemed “ugly” and has a disability falls in love with a beautiful Roma girl after she gives him water when enduring a beating, when nobody else helped him. However, two men who are affluent( I think) both love the Roma girl. One of the lovers of the Roma girl later kills the other one, framing it on the Roma girl out of jealousy. The Roma girl is put on trial, (Esmeralda) and is accused of attempted murder and is accused of witchcraft and is put to death. Quasimodo(the man deemed “ugly” who is in love with Esmeralda) watches in horror as Esmeralda is hanged. Quasimodod kills the man who framed Esmeralda,( Frollo,the Archdeacon) by pushing him off the Cathedral to his death below. A few years after, Quasimodo is found laying beside Esmeralda in a Mass Grave, when the guards pull his skeleton away from Esmeralda, his skeleton crumbles to dust.
Victor Hugo makes it evident in this book that everybody has the ability to love, even when stereotypes were common and vocal when this book was set;(France in the Middle Ages), with people different from the majority, and help people, or do a despicable act. Giving a drink of water to a man asking for it, and framing a murder, the former and latter respectively. Love is shown in this book like a seesaw, one person loving the other, then the other person loving another person, then it turns into a display of deep affection for one person after a tragic accident. I feel that this book is a classic, myriad of meanings, and love is a very central , powerful and driving force in this book.
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Beth’s Writing Homework
Here is my homework, I thought it was a bit short for a document, so here it is. Thanks for the great lesson, see you on Monday.
Passage 1 continued.
“Oh, how sweet of you, representing him of your own, how comforting. He must feel really at home. She exclaimed. “Wow, if only everyone was so inviting. Maybe I should do this as well.” Corleone suppressed a laugh at this, how incredulous he was at American expectations, and the fact that Adams thought it was unusual in Italy.
“ Well, I suppose it is. How about your family?” Asked Corleone, looking up from doing the dishes; pretending to be interested.
Turning the colour of a tomato,
“ Well, I’ve never adopted a child, and my daughter is quite the rampage.” She said quickly, “ Well, hopefully I will be able to enforce better rules on her.” Well, the truth was revealed eventually, Corleone thought. Not all glimmer and shine as the Americans liked to boast. Not at all.
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Thanks for the lesson, here is my homework(apologies for its lateness.
Hugo through his writing tell us that the French justice system is corrupt and unreliable, an example is shown when Quasimodo is put on trial after attempting to kidnap a woman on someones orders. Quasimodo is “ugly” and is deaf, and on trial the judge assumes what he is saying as Quasimodo cannot interpret what the judge is saying, as he is deaf. The judge sentences him to a flogging by the crowd, even though he has not heard a shred of evidence of even tried to interpret Quasimodo. This shows the the outcome of the trial decides in the judge, and it is clear to say that the judge in cases like these wants to get it over and done with, quickly.
In the book, a Roma girl,16 years old called Esmeralda is a street dancer, she is later accused of murdering someone, who was framed for the murder, is accused of murder and witchcraft.
Torture is a very common feature during Middle Age France, using it to gain confessions(which were unreliable and manipulated to get the confessions the judge wanted). Torture is used for minor offences in Middle Age France.
Hugo tells us that the French justice system is brutal, cruel and lack of clear sense. Witchcraft was a crime back then, and (mostly) women were persecuted and executed for being near things associated with bad luck, and tales told by neighbours. Judges decided the decision, not from evidence but from their own assumptions and opinion. This was shown in Quasimodo’s trial. In the Middle Ages, Victor Hugo shows that you could not trust the Justice system.
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