![]() ![]() ![]() After he realizes the two people he ever loved were gone, Quasimodo disappeared from Paris, never to be seen again. He pushes his wicked master off of Notre Dame, realizing that Frollo is responsible for her death, and he dies on the pavement below. Near the end of the novel, when Esmeralda has been given over to the executioner by Frollo, and hanged, he is heartbroken. He later saved Esmeralda from execution and gave her sanctuary in the church. When pitied with a drink of water by her whilst tied down on the town pillory, he falls in love with Esmeralda, the gypsy girl. His heart is pure, only acting violently when provoked or ordered to by his master, Claude Frollo, whom he is faithful to. He is also deaf and has unintelligible speech. He is hated by the public and shunned for his ugliness. Hideously deformed with a giant hunchback, teeth that protrude like tusks, and a single usable eye, Quasimodo lives a mostly reclusive existence within the cathedral of Notre Dame. ![]() Quasimodo was an abandoned baby left at Notre Dame and adopted by the archdeacon, Claude Frollo. ![]() Misunderstood Outcast Quasimodo is the main protagonist of the Victor Hugo classic novel, Notre Dame de Paris (often translated in English as The Hunchback of Notre Dame). ![]()
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