The novel artistically reproduces the real history of the reign of French king Louis Xi in the15th century, how the court and the church colluded to oppress the people, and how the people fought bravely with the two forces.
In the novel, Esmeralda, a gypsy woman and quasimodo, a disabled person with ugly faces, are presented to the readers as the embodiment of true beauty, while what people see in frollo, a vice bishop, and Phobos, an aristocratic 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.
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. ?
The author makes full use of the romantic contrast between beauty and ugliness in the preface to Cromwell, describes the good and evil, the beauty and ugliness, the sublime and the humble, and exaggerates some characteristics in the environment, events, plot arrangement, characterization and other aspects, resulting in a strong contrast.
Quasimodo is ugly, deformed, and his facial features are unclear, but he is kind-hearted, courageous and noble-minded, which is in sharp contrast with Claude, the vice bishop who is hypocritical in appearance and despicable in heart.
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I. Introduction
Notre Dame de Paris (French: Notre-Dame de Paris) is a novel written by French writer victor hugo and published in 183 1 year 1 month 65438+4 years.
The story is set in Notre Dame de Paris 1482 and revolves around a gypsy girl (Esmeralda) and an archbishop (Claude? Floro) lifted the hunchbacked bell ringer of Notre Dame (quasimodo). This story has been adapted into movies, TV series and musicals many times.
The importance of literature
Victor hugo proposed in his book that the novel is a narrative drama. His novel is an epic, telling the history of all people, taking Notre Dame as the witness, and is the protagonist of historical silence. As a developing and organic panoramic concept, time and life are centered on some people in history. The novel is also the first work featuring beggars.
Notre Dame de Paris is the first all-encompassing novel, from the French king to the mouse in the sewer, which was later adopted by many writers, such as Honoré de Balzac, gustave flaubert, Charles Dickens and others. The success of the novel stimulated the new historical protection movement and promoted the revival of Gothic architecture.
It finally led to the renovation of Notre Dame by Euler Raduch in the19th century. The appearance of Notre Dame today is the result of this transformation.
Brief introduction of the author
Victor hugo, a French romantic writer, a humanitarian representative and a bourgeois-democratic writer in the history of French literature, experienced almost all the major events in France in the19th century and was called "French Shakespeare".
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 history is more than 60 years, and his works include 26 volumes of poems, 20 volumes of novels, 2 volumes of scripts and 2 volumes of philosophical works, totaling 79 volumes.
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Baidu encyclopedia-Notre Dame de Paris