Hunchbacks Trial Is Unfair

In the novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo talks about how the hunchbacks trial is unfair and about Quasimodo's punishment is for kidnapping La Esmeralda. Quasimodo is deaf and so is the judge so neither of them know when they are being talked to. Once Quasimodo is being interrogated, he starts to answer questions that have been asked previously while the judge is asking new questions. The audience is laughing so the judge assumes he is being rude and sends him to the pillory for an extra hour. Evidence that supports this claim is when Hugo wrote, “But, first of all, as we have already observed, Master Florian did not care to have his deafness noticed. Secondly, he was so stone deaf that he did not hear one word that the clerk
had said. Nevertheless, wanting to appear that he did understand, he replied, ‘Ah ha! That's different. I didn't know that. In that case, give him another hour at the pillory.” (Hugo 98). Since the judge is deaf, he can't hear what Quasimodo is accused of so this shows that the justice system is deaf so the punishment are bias. The reason that this punishment is not just is that you cannot be sentenced to a punishment without knowing how severe that the crime is which shows that the justice system bias.

Chapter 8: What is love? Claude Frollo is in “love” with La Esmeralda but the real question is what they have really love? Claude Frollo’s definition of love would probably be, to show love and devotion to someone and to never fall in love with someone else. The reason that this isn't a healthy definition is because Claude Frollo is too jealous of whoever La Esmeralda is associated with. That proves that Claude Frollo is obsessive of La Esmeralda and that isn't a healthy relationship because she does not love him. This is a kind of one sided obsessive love. This really isn't love because La Esmeralda loves someone else but Claude Frollo stalks her and tries to eliminate everyone she loves but him. This is a very harmful version of love. This is harmful because he stabs one of the people La Esmeralda loves and he also sends a horde of people to attack another one. For her love he will kill innocent people and he would rather see her dead than with another man. La Esmeralda actually got framed for the murder of Phoebus when it was really Claude Frollo that attacked him. So because of his actions to keep La Esmeralda to himself, he almost killed her. Then the man that saved her, (which is his adopted son) holds her in the sanctuary to protect her. While she is at Notre Dame, Claude Frollo sends a horde of angry Truands to rush the tower and attack Quasimodo because he was jealous of him because La Esmeralda likes Quasimodo more than him.