The church of Notre-Dame de Paris is still no doubt, a majestic and sublime edifice. Hugo is said to have written the novel to complain about how the architectural wonder of Notre-Dame had been degraded in his own time since the French Revolution. Notre-Dame de Paris referred to the great cathedral at the centre of the story, though one could argue Paris itself is the most important character, as represented by its famed edifice. The title of the novel as Victor Hugo published it in French did not mention a hunchback. It steals attention from the real central character. It makes a preternatural monster out of a character suffering a deformity. The novel is associated with other dark nineteenth-century classics like Frankenstein, Dracula and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Thanks in part to movies based on it, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame calls up images of Gothic horror in the public imagination. CRITIQUE | THE TEXT A deformed masterwork
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