The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Themes

You've probably heard the old spiel about not judging a book by its cover. Well, the saying exists because people do tend to judge covers. Sometimes, an entire identity is constructed around a cove...

"Love is a many splendored thing." "Love lifts us up where we belong." "All you need is love."We can't tell if we're quoting different songs or just Moulin Rouge, but the point is that love does a...

Let's talk about the F-word.We mean fate, of course. It comes up a lot in The Hunchback of Notre-Dame; in fact, Victor Hugo tells us in his preface that the entire book is written on the idea of fa...

Pretty much nothing goes right for our main characters in The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, at least while they're alive. We guess that goes with the territory in a tragedy.There's a lot of suffering in...

We're gonna level with you, folks: sex is a major player in The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.Or at least, the desire to have sex is a major player. The problem is, that desire is usually unrequited. Wha...

Time is not on anyone's side in The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. Time wears history away, it wipes away peoples' existences, it leads to inevitable decay and change… basically, time paves things over...

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame begins at the Palace of Justice and ends at the gallows at Montfaucon. We also get two trial scenes, a scene of the pillory, a scene of the gallows, a scene of torture,...

In case you haven't picked up on it, people in the Middle Ages could be pretty superstitious. Satanic goats, baby-eating, coins turning into leaves, some guy named "Beelzebub"… people sure were i...