In four pages this paper analyzes and ultimately supports the primary theme that things are not always as they seem and love can be a destructive force if it is the wrong kind. There are no other sources listed.
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the story of mans inhumanity (not to mention extreme bigotry) to man. To another person, Hunchback is a tale of desire gone hopelessly awry amid the suspicious and bloodthirsty population
in the streets of gloomy medieval France. To someone else, the book is about medieval France, even down to the mean and gloomy streets stretched out beneath the glorious famed
cathedral. However, the two themes that occur consistently throughout the book are the destructive powers of love - the wrong kind of
love - and that adage, "you cant judge a book by its cover." The main characters are all in love, all right - but the objects of their desire are
unrequited and the love unreturned. And throughout the book, nothing is as it seems on the surface. Dom Frollo appears to be a cold, sardonic and controlled (if not controlling)
priest who oversees the functioning of Paris famed Notre Dame church. Quasimodo is nothing more than the village idiot, and a hideously ugly one at that, with little to say
for himself. And Esmeralda, with whom both men fall passionately in love, is a lighthearted Romany dancer with the grace of a butterfly, the morals of an alley cat and
the courage of a flea. Or so it seems at first glance. But, like the plain package that is unwrapped to reveal an interesting treasure beneath, Hugos work reveals more
depth than appearances throughout. The main protagonist of the story is Quasimodo, Notre Dames hunchback, whose one skill is an ability
to ring the churchs bell in time for mass. His home is in the bell tower, where he is out of sight and out of mind of most of the