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7	->"''We shall not attempt to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedron nose- that horse-shoe mouth- that small left eye over-shadowed by a red bushy brow, while the right eye disappeared entirely under an enormous wart- of those straggling teeth with breaches here and there like the battlements of a fortress- of that horny lip, over which one of those teeth projected like the tusk of an elephant- of that forked chin- and, above all, of the expression diffused over the whole-that mixture of malice, astonishment, and melancholy. Let the reader, if he can, figure to himself this combination.''"
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9	The ''[[Literature/LesMiserables other]]'' famous novel by Creator/VictorHugo. Written in 1831, ''Notre-Dame de Paris'', known in English as ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'', is a rich, meandering tale that addresses [[AllLoveIsUnrequited messy relationships]], fate, and the future of architecture in 1482. The English title is a misnomer, since the protagonist of the story is Esmeralda, the original title being a metaphor on the cathedral who serves as the central location of the novel, and Esmeralda herself (though one could argue the cathedral is itself a character). Victor Hugo strongly protested against the English title, as it turns the focus from the cathedral onto the characters.
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11	The hunchback is Quasimodo, the deaf, one-eyed, hunchbacked, monstrously ugly bell-ringer of Notre-Dame Cathedral in UsefulNotes/{{Paris}}. Abandoned outside the church at the age of four, he was taken in out of kindness by the Archdeacon of Josas, Claude Frollo, who raised him in the church and introduced him to the bells.
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13	When the hitherto chaste Frollo sees the gypsy girl Esmeralda dancing in the street one day, he finds himself [[SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny stricken with lust and doesn't know how to deal with it]]. So, sure as LoveMakesYouEvil, he grabs Quasimodo (for muscle) and tries to kidnap her. The attempt is foiled by Phoebus, Captain of the Archers. It is spectacularly ''not'' foiled by lovable slacker-poet Pierre Gringoire, who gets knocked out trying to save the girl.
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15	Later that night, however, Esmeralda temporarily marries the poet, to [[MarriageOfConvenience save his life]] from her friends at the [[JokerJury Court of Miracles]]. That doesn't mean she's going to let her new "husband" touch her, mind you, or that she's going to give up her dreams of marrying Phoebus. Phoebus likes the look of her, himself, and although he's already engaged to his teenage cousin Fleur-de-Lys, he's not opposed to a bit on the side.
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17	Esmeralda's small kindness to Quasimodo when he is in the stocks for the kidnapping attempt (Frollo having let him [[TakingTheHeat take the fall]]) makes her an angel in Quasimodo's mind, and he is henceforth devoted to her. This eventually, and painfully, puts him in conflict with Frollo, whose combination of lust and loathing for Esmeralda makes him [[VillainousBreakdown increasingly unstable]].
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19	Amidst the drama and tragedy resulting from everybody's fatal obsessions, Hugo includes leisurely chapters on the architecture of Paris and the expected impact of the newly-developed printing press.
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21	The novel has inspired [[AdaptationOverdosed many]] [[DerivativeWorks/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame adaptations]]. Live-action film versions most notably include those of [[Film/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame1923 1923]], [[Film/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame1939 1939]], and [[Film/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame1956 1956]]. Other adaptations include [[Film/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame1982 a 1982 made-for-TV adaptation]], [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney the 1996 Disney animated version]] (which itself got a ScreenToStageAdaptation that was surprisingly accurate to the original novel), and a French-language rock opera called ''Theatre/NotreDameDeParis''.
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23	!!This novel provides examples of the following tropes:
24	* AccidentalMisnaming: Phoebus can't be bothered to remember Esmeralda's name, so he usually just takes a stab at it.
25	* AgonyOfTheFeet: Esmeralda is threatened with having her foot crushed in a vise unless she confesses to Phoebus's murder.
26	* AintTooProudToBeg: When he's about to be executed, Gringoire begs for his life to the King quite verbosely. It works.
27	* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Frollo, Quasimodo, and (to a lesser extent) Gringoire are in love with Esmeralda, who only has eyes for Phoebus, who is engaged to Fleur-de-lys and only interested in Esmeralda for sex.
28	* AmbiguouslyBrown: Esmeralda has black hair and "golden" skin. [[spoiler:Turns out she's a white girl with a tan from living on the road with the Romani her whole life- though to be fair, her father's identity remains unknown, considering Paquette was a sex worker, and she very well could be mixed-race regardless.]]
29	* AmbiguousGender: At least in some English translations, Djali is referred to with masculine and feminine pronouns alike, despite Esmeralda specifically stating, "''She'' is [her] sister." However Gringoire notes that the innocent and naïve Esmeralda does not seem to distinguish between male and female.
30	* AmbiguousSituation: Quasimodo is indicated to probably be white (what with being a pale redhead and all), but he was switched out by the Romani at age four or so with Paquette la Chantefleurie's infant daughter Agnes [[spoiler:who turns out to be Esmeralda's real identity]]. Considering he was already a decently big kid by then, it's unclear if he was born Romani himself or if he was taken in by them until a more normal child came along as an option.
31	* AnnoyingArrows: Arrows don't have much of an effect on Quasimodo.
32	* AntiVillain: Claude Frollo was originally a good man. When baby Quasimodo was abandoned on the cathedral's foundlings bed, nobody would take him because of his ugliness, except Frollo, who raised him like a son. He also raised his younger brother Jehan after their parents died and supported him later, even though he disapproved of Jehan's lifestyle. He did evil things only because of his obsessive and unrequited love for Esmeralda, and it's described how much he's suffering (being aware that you're slowly going insane is NOT a pleasant process.)
33	* AnyoneCanDie: By the end of the story, only [[spoiler:Phoebus, Fleur-de-Lys, Gringoire and Djali]] are left alive.
34	* AttemptedRape: Frollo tries to rape Esmeralda one night in the bell tower until Quasimodo comes and nearly kills him before he recognizes Frollo. When he does, he completely submits to him, and Esmeralda uses a dagger to threaten Frollo out of the room.
35	* AuthorFilibuster:
36	** In book 3, chapter III, the narrator describes at length the architectural development of Paris since the 15th century and how ugly the city has become.
37	** The second chapter of book 5 consists of a long digression about the impact of the invention of printing.
38	%%* AuthorStandIn: Gringoire.
39	* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Subverted. Esmeralda is completely taken in by Phoebus' outward appearance and believes he's her KnightInShiningArmor when he's actually a despicable lout. By contrast, Quasimodo, while ugly and socially unappealing, is still one of the most decent characters in the book.
40	* BeastAndBeauty: The deaf, disfigured, deformed Quasimodo is attracted to the beautiful Esmeralda [[spoiler:and goes as far as to die just to be with her]]. However, she does not reciprocate his feelings.
41	* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Quasimodo's devotion to Esmeralda starts when she shows him kindness and brings him water on the scaffold even though the only reason he's up there is because he tried to kidnap her at Frollo's behest.
42	* BurnTheWitch: Esmeralda is charged with witchcraft, among other offenses. However, she's sentenced to death by hanging, not by burning at the stake.
43	%%* ButIWouldReallyEnjoyIt: What kicks off the plot.
44	%%* ByronicHero: Frollo.
45	* ComeToGawk: The "Pope of Fools" ugly-face contest is essentially this en masse.
46	%%* ContrivedCoincidence: mostly in the sub-plot about Esmeralda's search for her mother.
47	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:When Quasimodo tosses Frollo off the roof of the cathedral for his complicity in getting Esmeralda hanged, Frollo doesn't hit the ground straight away. He gets caught on some guttering, and several paragraphs are spent on his struggle to try and reach a safe spot. Then, when the guttering breaks, he falls and hits the roof of a house, falls off ''that'' and hits the street, which is what finally kills him.]]
48	%%* DeathIsDramatic
49	* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Phoebus is a fitting deconstruction of the KnightInShiningArmor, as he does manage to save Esmeralda from Quasimodo and Frollo in the beginning, although rather than being chivalrous and noble, he is a drunk, a womanizer, and a bully, with virtually no idealistic qualities, behaving more like... well, like a medieval soldier. Likewise, Esmeralda, as the 16-year-old DamselInDistress, is also fickle, foolish, and hopelessly idealistic.
50	%%* DidNotGetTheGirl: "Why was I not made of stone like thee?"
51	* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Quasimodo throws Frollo off a balcony to his doom in a fit of rage after Esmeralda was hanged]].
52	* DistantFinale: The ending takes place eighteen months later [[spoiler:when a group of surveyors discover two long-rotted corpses, TogetherInDeath, one of whom has a crooked back]].
53	* DoorstopBaby: Quasimodo was abandoned outside the church and adopted by Frollo.
54	* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Frollo gives up Esmeralda to the troops and watches while she is being hanged. Seeing Frollo laughing at Esmeralda's execution, Quasimodo pushes him from the heights of Notre Dame to his death, then he commits suicide.]]
55	%%* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Quasimodo, having seen or participated in the deaths of everyone he loves.]]
56	* EvilCripple: The auditor (assistant judge) who vainly tries to hide his deafness but resorts to rote trial dialogue. He doesn't realize Quasimodo is also deaf, resulting in a scene that the mob finds funny, which only infuriates the auditor, leading to Quasimodo's unjust punishment.
57	* FaceHeelTurn: Frollo is initially a good man who took in Quasimodo out of the kindness of his heart and supports his good-for-nothing brother Jehan, but as his obsession with Esmeralda intensifies, his morals completely erode and he goes mad.
58	%%* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: [[spoiler:The amount of detail of Frollo's last moments was slightly nauseating.]].
59	%%* FauxInterracialRelationship: Esmeralda is actually a French girl swapped for Quasimodo.
60	%%* FleurDeLis: The name of a character, among other things.
61	* FlowerMotifs: Quasimodo once leaves two bouquets of flowers in Esmeralda's room; one is fresh and beautiful but inside a humble earthen pot (symbolizing Quasimodo, who is outwardly hideous but holds a soft spot for Esmeralda), the other is withered and dead but inside a pretty crystal vase (symbolizing Phoebus, who is outwardly handsome but self-absorbed and boorish). Esmeralda picks the dead flowers.
62	* GentleGiant: Downplayed. Except to the people he loves (all two of them), Quasimodo is unsociable, violent, and mean.
63	%%* GoThroughMe: Quasimodo's solution to his dual loyalties to Frollo and Esmeralda.
64	%%* TheGrotesque: Quasimodo.
65	* TheHedonist: Jehan Frollo is the 15th-century equivalent of a frat boy. Supposedly a student, he spends all of his free time and (his brother's) money on hedonistic pursuits: expensive clothes, parties, and courting loose women.
66	* HistoricalDomainCharacter: King UsefulNotes/LouisXI. Gringoire was also a real person, although he was born circa 1475 and would still have been a child at the time the novel takes place. Other minor characters are based on real-life people: Jacques Coitier, Olivier Le Daim, Robert d’Estouteville, Tristan L'Hermite...
67	* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:When it turns out that Gudule is actually Esmeralda's mother, she hides Esmeralda in her cell, and it seems that she will escape the executioners. Gudule manages to convince the soldiers that Esmeralda ran away, and they are about to leave... but just then, Esmeralda hears Phoebus' voice and cries out for Phoebus to help her. Phoebus doesn't even hear her, but the soldiers grab her and take her to the gallows. Gudule is killed while trying to protect her.]]
68	* HotGypsyWoman: UnbuiltTrope. Esmeralda is a very attractive girl raised by the Gypsies. Many men, including a chaste priest, immediately fall in love with her at first sight. She is also quite bold with men: she does not hesitate to marry Gringoire to save his life, even if she does not love him. {{Downplayed\|Trope}} because she is innocent and a virgin rather than fiery and worldly. Finally {{Subverted\|Trope}}: [[spoiler:she was raised by Gypsies but is not one by birth.]]
69	* IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn: Esmerelda had no intention of awakening lustful feelings in Frollo. Or anyone else (except Phoebus), for that matter.
70	%%* TheIngenue: Again, Esmeralda, especially the negative features of such a character.
71	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Quasimodo does what he can to make Esmeralda happy, including acting as a messenger to Phoebus, whom he knows to be a jerk.
72	%%* ImplicitPrison: The cathedral serves as this for Esmeralda when she [[SeekingSanctuary avoids arrest by staying there]].
73	* InWhichATropeIsDescribed: The chapter titles, as was the style in the day. For example, "The Inconveniences of Following a Pretty Woman through the Streets in the Evening" or "The Retreat in which Monsieur Louis of France says his Prayers".
74	%%* {{Jerkass}}: Phoebus, and to a lesser extent, Jehan Frollo.
75	%%* JokerJury: Gringoire's trial in the Court of Miracles.
76	* JustWhistle: Quasimodo gives Esmeralda a literal whistle for this purpose.
77	* KarmaHoudini: Phoebus has no problem taking advantage of Esmeralda's innocence or [[spoiler:letting her die]] on trumped-up charges [[spoiler:including charges of his own murder]]. Yet he is one of the few characters that are left alive by the end of the story. However, according to the [[LemonyNarrator narrator]], he suffers a tragic fate at the end: he gets married.
78	* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Olivier le Daim is Louis XI's EvilChancellor who only cares about expanding his own power base, and yet survives the novel. However, the epilogue casually mentions that the reason the surveyors discovered the corpses of Quasimodo and Esmeralda is because they're trying to find a suitable burial site for le Daim after his execution at the order of Louis XI's son, Charles VIII.
79	%%* KnightInShiningArmor: Phoebus more or less fits this trope, especially in Esmeralda's eyes. He's still a jerk, though.
80	* LaughingMad: Frollo, when he completely loses it at the end, laughs [[spoiler:at the sight of Esmeralda's hanging.]] It is described as "the laugh of a demon, a laugh which one can only give vent to when one is no longer human."
81	* LemonyNarrator: The narrator frequently indulges in sarcastic comments. For example:
82	--->''"So far as the modern monuments of new Paris are concerned, we would gladly be excused from mentioning them. It is not that we do not admire them as they deserve. The Sainte-Geneviève of M. Soufflot is certainly the finest Savoy cake that has ever been made in stone."'' (book 3, chapter II)
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84	--->''"These [the modern monuments of Paris] are very superb structures. Let us add a quantity of fine, amusing, and varied streets, like the Rue de Rivoli, and I do not despair of Paris presenting to the eye, when viewed from a balloon, that richness of line, that opulence of detail, that diversity of aspect, that grandiose something in the simple, and unexpected in the beautiful, which characterizes a checker-board."'' (book 3, chapter II)
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86	--->''"Phœbus de Châteaupers also came to a tragic end. He married."'' (book 11, chapter III)
87	* LostInImitation: Quasimodo is originally a secondary character, but his role has been exaggerated and romanticized in the public mind through many adaptations (the English title referring directly to him doesn't help, either). The architectural themes have generally been minimized.
88	* LovableCoward: Gringoire tries to do his best to help save Esmeralda, but when his own neck is at stake, he decides he'd rather not.
89	* LoveAtFirstSight: Deconstructed. Esmeralda falls for Phoebus instantly after he saves her from Quasimodo and Frollo's kidnapping attempt. But since she doesn't really know him, she sees him as a KnightInShiningArmor instead of the cynical, selfish jerk that he really is. Frollo also falls for Esmeralda the first time he sees her (albeit a lot less purely); but this love is a dark, unhealthy obsession that eventually drives him mad.
90	* LoveDodecahedron: Frollo, Quasimodo, Phoebus, and Gringoire are all attracted to Esmeralda, who is married to Gringoire, but has eyes only for Phoebus, who is engaged to Fleur-de-Lys.
91	* LoveInterestVsLustInterest: Esméralda is loved by Quasimodo and lusted after by Quasimodo's benefactor Frollo, creating a deadly conflict between the two men. What's worse, she is oblivious to both of their feelings and instead falls for Captain Phoebus, who only wants her for sex, then abandons her to be hanged for a crime she did not commit (Phoebus is thus an Opportunistic Lust Interest).
92	%%* LoveMakesYouDumb: See HopeSpot.
93	* LoveMakesYouEvil: Frollo's unhealthy obsession with Esmeralda drives the plot.
94	%%* LoveMartyr: Esmeralda
95	* LukeIAmYourFather: In the end, Esmeralda realizes that [[spoiler:Gudule, the anchoress]], is her mother. The happiness of reuniting with her does not last: [[spoiler:both are killed shortly thereafter]].
96	* MaleGaze: Every description of Esmeralda. Did we really need the details of her half-dressed state, her "waving locks, more lustrous than the raven's wing", her "half-naked shoulders" and "bare legs" -- as she's being ''dragged to the gallows''?
97	* MarketBasedTitle: Published in the original French as ''Notre-Dame de Paris'', usually published in English as ''The Hunchback of Notre-Dame''.
98	* MarriageOfConvenience: Esmeralda enters a four-year "gypsy marriage" with Gringoire in order to save his life.
99	* MeaningfulName: "Quasimodo" actually has a double meaning. It first refers to the day Frollo found him: the last day of the Easter Octave, also known as Quasimodo Sunday. Quasimodo is also a reference to how he seemed merely "almost" human to Frollo. The text leaves it ambiguous as to which meaning Frollo was going for, but given his conflicted personality, it's likely he meant both.
100	* MiscarriageOfJustice: Esmeralda is sentenced to death [[spoiler:and eventually hanged for stabbing Phoebus, which was actually done by Frollo.]]
101	* MrViceGuy: Gringoire is deemed a coward by the other characters but otherwise is easily the nicest character in the book.
102	* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: Pierre Gringoire is based on a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Gringore poet of the era.]] Notably, he's the only one to get a happy ending in that after pivoting to tragedies, he becomes a successful playwright.
103	* NonHumanSidekick: Djali is Esmeralda's adorable and intelligent goat.
104	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: At her introduction in the book, Esmeralda is referred to as "''La'' Esmeralda", actually "The Emerald". She is essentially nicknamed by the Gypsies and the beggars, and her true name, Agnes, is only revealed at the end of the book.
105	%%* OnlyOneName: Quasimodo and Esmeralda.
106	* OnlyTheLeadsGetADownerEnding: By the end of the book everyone has suffered. [[spoiler:Claude Frollo is thrown from Notre Dame by Quasimodo and dies, Esméralda is hanged for the murder of Phoebus (although he never died) and Quasimodo tears Esméralda's body down and hides in the catacombs with it, where he starves himself to death near her body and his skeleton crumbles when they're found.]] Phoebus gets the "happy" ending of marrying Fleur-de-Lys, but Hugo informs the reader he's likely to have an AwfulWeddedLife. Pierre Gringoire ([[NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed based on an actual playwright]]) is successful, though, as he becomes a playwright of tragedies that get him positive attention.
107	* OrphansPlotTrinket: Esmeralda has an amulet that is supposed to help her find her mother.
108	* PromotionToParent: Frollo's parents die while he's a young man, leaving him to raise his baby brother, and then Quasimodo, whom he adopts.
109	* PureIsNotGood:
110	** Frollo, a pious priest, has no idea how to deal with sexual frustration since he's lived all his life away from the opposite sex.
111	** Quasimodo struggles with this somewhat too, for similar reasons (Frollo raising him the way he did didn't help), but he is able to manage it by sublimating his attraction to Esmeralda into unselfish devotion rather than sexual obsession.
112	* RescueRomance: Esmeralda falls for Phoebus after he rescues her from Frollo and Quasimodo.
113	%%* RightHandVersusLeftHand: See TheSiege, below.
114	* RoguishRomani: The Romani are portrayed as thieves and rumored to be cannibals. The TokenGoodTeammate is Esmeralda, who [[spoiler:is actually a French girl named Agnes]].
115	* SceneryPorn: Hugo goes into a ''lot'' of detail when describing his beloved cathedral.
116	%%* SeekingSanctuary: Everyone knows this scene.
117	%%* SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: Hinted at with Frollo.
118	* SexlessMarriage: Gringoire would like to consummate his marriage to Esmeralda, but after she threatens him with her ChastityDagger, he gives up.
119	* ShooOutTheClowns: Jehan Frollo provided most of the comic relief in an otherwise serious story. [[spoiler:His death acts as a gigantic "Bad End Incoming" flag.]]
120	%%** Gringoire leaves with Djali.
121	%%* ShownTheirWork: Just say Victor Hugo's novels are educational.
122	* TheSiege: Quasimodo bravely and single-handedly defends the cathedral against an armed horde. Who were trying to rescue Esmeralda. NiceJobBreakingItHero.
123	* SingleTear: Quasimodo cries one when he's on the scaffold and Esmeralda brings him water. The narration notes that it was probably the first tear he had shed in his life.
124	* SinisterMinister: The main villain of the book, Frollo, is a priest who goes mad because [[LoveMakesYouEvil his love for Esmeralda is not reciprocated]].
125	* SoBeautifulItsACurse: If Esmeralda was unattractive, or even if she was just ''slightly less'' attractive, none of the bad things in the novel would've happened.
126	%%* StalkerWithACrush: Frollo again. Quasimodo, too. And Esmeralda is this to Phoebus.
127	* SwitchedAtBirth: Sort of. The infant Agnes (who eventually ''became'' Esmeralda) was abducted by a gypsy tribe, who replaced her with none other than a very young Quasimodo. No wonder Paquette/Gudule fell to pieces.
128	* TakingTheHeat: Only Quasimodo is punished for the initial kidnapping attempt.
129	* ThievesCant: Argot features heavily here, being that it focuses so much on gypsies.
130	%%* TheTramp: The entire Court of Miracles.
131	* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:Centuries later, excavators find the skeleton of Quasimodo embracing that of Esmeralda. When they touch them the bones crumble into dust.]]
132	* TooDumbToLive: Esmeralda takes on ''severe'' shades of this [[spoiler: when she's hiding in her mother's cell, trying to evade detection by the guards... and getting away with it... only to dash for the window and start crying for Phoebus the moment she hears his voice]].
133	%%* TorchesAndPitchforks
134	* TorosYFlamenco: Esmeralda has a Spanish name, in keeping with the romanticization of Spanish Gypsy women in 19th century France (e.g. ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}''). Ironically Gypsies first arrived in Spain from France in the 15th century, just decades before the setting of the novel.
135	* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The "Court of Miracles" concept was an actual urban legend of the Paris of old -- specifically, that there was a place in the city where the poor beggars who went out during the day revealed themselves to actually be nothing but cons and thieves teaching others to do the same. To the best of our current knowledge, there were a lot of actual poor populations in Paris, but there's no direct evidence any of them were an actual court of miracles as opposed to, you know, just normal poor people.
136	* VirginPower: Esmeralda has an amulet that is supposed to help her find her mother, but believes it will only work so long as she is a virgin.
137	* VowOfCelibacy: Frollo is torn between the pious celibacy he is supposed to maintain as an archdeacon and his lust for Esmeralda, becoming [[LoveMakesYouEvil increasingly unstable]] as he fails to reconcile the two.
138	* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds:
139	** Frollo is a man who tried so hard to be genuinely ''good'' that his perverse lust drives him tragically insane.
140	** Quasimodo is a nasty little misanthrope, but considering the fact that he's been rejected by society at large because of his appearance, can you really blame him?
141	* WritersSuck: Gringoire's career as a poet is an abject failure. The opening chapters make clear that no one except him is paying any attention to his mystery play.
142	* WronglyAccused: Esmeralda is arrested for [[spoiler:stabbing Phoebus]], which was actually done by [[spoiler: Frollo in a fit of jealousy]].
143	* {{Yandere}}: Frollo's obsession for Esmeralda drives him to extreme measures to keep her to himself.
144	* YankTheDogsChain: [[spoiler:Esmeralda's mother, Paquette, was a prostitute who doted upon her daughter. When Esmeralda was kidnapped by Gypsies when she was still a baby, Paquette was completely devastated and became an anchoress, spending fifteen years in a small cell, repenting and begging for God to give her back her daughter. They're eventually reunited... only for Esmeralda to be taken away to be executed almost immediately afterward. Paquette is killed while trying to prevent Esmeralda's arrest.]]
145	* YoungerThanTheyLook: Archdeacon Claude Frollo is only 36 years old, yet he is nearly bald, with only a few white hairs on his head.

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