![]() Those contrasts come to a head when Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer at the Cathedral of Notre Dame, falls in love with the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda. Justice is finally served as Quasimodo hurls Frollo to his death from the bell tower.įifteenth century Paris is a city of contrasts with an aristocracy living in glittering luxury while the poor endure almost unimaginable squalor and all the while the church offers spiritual salvation while its leaders wallow in corruption and decadence. Amid the chaos, Frollo enters the church. Not to be denied Esmeralda's life, Frollo incites the nobles to deny sanctuary, and the beggars, concerned for the girl's safety, storm the church. As Esmeralda is marched to die on the gallows, Quasimodo leaps from the building above and carries her to the sanctuary of the church. Esmeralda is arrested for the crime, and Frollo, claiming that the girl had bewitched him with the power of Satan, demands her life. Frollo lusts after Esmeralda, however, and, unable to tolerate her love for Phoebus, kills his rival. There, she saves the life of the poet Gringoire by consenting to take him as her husband, although she truly loves the soldier Phoebus. ![]() Frollo, who is Quasimodo's guardian, orders the hunchback to take the girl captive, and Esmeralda, terrified, escapes to the underworld of Clopin and his beggars. When the lovely gypsy dancer Esmeralda is threatened by the King's men, she seeks refuge in a church, Notre Dame, where she meets the grotesque hunchback Quasimodo. ![]() Frollo, the King's high justice, exploits these evils, persecuting the gypsies and opposing any mode of progress. Ignorance, cruelty and superstition pervade France of the fifteenth century.
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