The Hunchback of Notre-Dame In this novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831), Victor Hugo talks about the life of his characters in the city of Paris. This story takes place in the late-fourteenth century. With inequality all around it was hard for a person to gain respect without good looks or social status. In this paper I will mainly discuss the story of Quasimodoe Esmeralda, and their struggle in this story Quasimodoe's mother was a gypsy. She could ... two skeletons lying in each others arms. One the body of a lady (Esmerelda), and the other the body of a man who was deformed (Quaismodo)...

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... . His most famous works include the novels The Hunchback of Notre Dame and the immensely popular Les Miserables, which of course served as inspiration for one of the twentieth century's most popular musicals Les Mis; however, it is his dramatic works, rather than his novels, that incited so much animosity, praise, and even riots. Victor Hugo's fame as a playwright grew out of the riots surrounding the opening performance of his play Hernani. It is ... was Hugo. In 1827, Hugo published Cromwell, a long, unstageable, historical drama. The play is not regarded to be as important to the Roma...

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