Often times the perspective will turn to random characters, simply to give a fuller view of the city but adds little to the plot. Where do I start in critiquing this classic? The descriptions are so detailed that they are both beautiful and boring at the same time. If you do not know the plot or don’t want to be spoiled, I advise turning back now. Frollo seeks to destroy her at all costs if he cannot have her and Quasimodo will do anything to protect her. His patron and adopted father archdeacon Claude Frollo and he himself fall in love with the beautiful dancing girl Esmerelda. In the Cathedral of Notre-Dame lives the hunchback Quasimodo, a deaf and deformed bell ringer. Synopsis: In this classic Victor Hugo tragedy, Paris comes alive in lush details as an unrequited love seeks to destroy the life of a beauty. This is five hundred pages to those fifteen hundred pages. Plus, it is about a third of the length of Hugo’s other novel, a little book known as Les Miserables. It’s probably my own fault, but this book has been on my TBR for so many years, I thought it was about time to read it. Why do I enjoy inflicting pain on myself? Why did I think it was a good idea to read one of the most famous tragedies in history? Never have I been more frustrated than in reading Romeo and Juliet.
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