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Notre Dame

In The Hunchback of , there are many interesting characters, However, I think Claude Frollo is a good one to talk about. In the book Claude is a priest who sees a beautiful girl and thinks unpure thoughts about her. Since he is a priest he feels he has to do something about these freaky thoughts he is having, so he tries to have her hanged by committing a murder and framing her. Then it turns out the victim really isn't dead, but because times were so messed up back then they still convicted her of murder. The girl, Esmeralda, is a gypsy girl so a lot of people in the town did not like her. Although Claude Frollo is a priest he is a trifling man whose sexual desire turns him into an ...

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came into her room one night and tried to rape her. He was touching her in ways that she did not find appealing "She felt a lascivious hand wandering over her body"(215), but Quasimodo would not let him rape her. He wanted Esmeralda hanged because he could not control his own passions.
The schemes of Claude Frollo were as stupid and childish as the schemes of any man who let his desire for sex control his life. In one scheme he and Quasimodo tried to carry Esmeralda off against her will... "A statue of the Virgin Mary on the corner enabled him to see the girl struggling with two men who were trying to stifle her cries"(29). The next time he tried to do something to her it was frame her for murder. He knew she had an appointment with a man and hid in a little room by where they were going. When they got there he came out of the room and stabbed the man she was with in his back. She was arrested and convicted of murder. She was sentenced to hang in the gallows. Claude ...

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Added: 4/7/2008 05:36:31 AM
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