Quasimodo

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This article is about the fictional character. For other uses, see Quasimodo (disambiguation).

Quasimodo is a main character from the 1831 novel, Notre Dame de Paris, by French author Victor Hugo. Many English editions have changed the title to "The Hunchback of Notre Dame".

Character

This character was born with extreme physical deformities, which Hugo describes as a huge wart that covers his right eye, bushy red hair, and his infamous hump. Quasimodo is found abandoned on the doorasses of Notre Dame on a Quasimodo Sunday, the first Sunday after Easter, by the archdeacon Claude Frollo, who adopts the baby and brings him up to be the bell-ringer of the cathedral. Due to the loud ringing of the bells, Quasimodo also becomes deaf.

Looked upon by the general populace of Paris as a monster, Quasimodo later falls in love with the beautiful gypsy girl Esmeralda and rescues her when she is entangled in a murder. Quasimodo does not earn love or compassion by the end, the main theme of the book being the cruelty of social justice.

Quasimodo's name can be considered a pun. Frollo finds him on the cathedral's doorsteps on Quasimodo Sunday and names him after the holiday; the Latin quasimodo means "almost like" — possibly Hugo intended to play on a visceral reaction from some readers that the hunchback was only almost like a human being.

In the novel, he symbolically shows Esmeralda the difference between himself and the handsome, yet superficial Captain Phoebus with whom the girl is infatuated. He places two vases in her room: one is a beautiful crystal vase, yet filled with dry, withered flowers; the other a humble pot, yet filled with beautiful, fragrant flowers. Esmeralda takes the withered flowers from the crystal vase and presses them passionately on her heart.[1]

Adaptations

Many film adaptations of The Hunchback of Notre Dame have been made, which take various degrees of liberty with the novel. In the 1996 Disney animation, for example, Quasimodo is neither one-eyed nor deaf, and is capable of fluent speech. Among the actors who have played him over the years are:

Lon Chaney, Sr., in the 1923 silent film The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Charles Laughton, in the 1939 film The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Anthony Quinn, in the 1956 film The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Anthony Hopkins, in the 1982 film The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Tom Hulce, voice actor for Quasimodo in the 1996 Disney animation The Hunchback of Notre Dame and its sequel.
Garou, played the part of Quasimodo on-stage French version of Notre Dame de Paris in the late 1990s.

• • [ e] The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Characters
Quasimodo • Esmeralda • Esmeralda (Disney) • Claude Frollo • Claude Frollo (Disney adaptation) • Captain Phoebus • Clopin Trouillefou
Adaptations
1923 • 1939 • 1956 • 1982 • 1996 • The Hunchback of Notre Dame II • Notre Dame de Paris (musical) • Hunchback of Notre Dame (musical)

Quasimodo can refer to:

Quasimodo, the fition title character from The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Quasimodo Sunday, another name for the Octave of Easter
Quasimodo (magazine), a University of Notre Dame Australia student newspaper

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1831 illustration from the
first edition of Hunchback
Author Victor Hugo
Original title Notre-Dame de Paris
Illustrator Alfred Barbou (original)
Country France
Language French

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Victor-Marie Hugo

Born: 26 February 1802

Died: 22 May 1885

Literary movement: Romanticism
Debut works: Nouvelles Odes et Poésies Diverses (New Odes and Various Poems) (1824)
Influences: Walter Scott
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Kyphosis
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ICD-10 M 40.0 -M 40.2 , M 42.0 , Q 76.4
ICD-9 732.0 , 737.0 , 737.1

DiseasesDB 21885

Kyphosis (Greek - kyphos, a hump), in general terms, is a curvature of the upper spine.
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Notre Dame de Paris, known simply as Notre Dame in English, is a Gothic cathedral on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité in Paris, France, with its main entrance to the west. It is still used as a Roman Catholic cathedral and is the seat of the Archbishop of Paris.
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Octave of Easter, sometimes known as Low Sunday (and also known historically as White Sunday, Whitsunday, St. Thomas Sunday and Quasimodo Sunday), is the Sunday after Easter Sunday.
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archdeacon is a senior position in Anglicanism, Syrian Malabar Nasrani and in some other Christian denominations, above that of most clergy and below a bishop. An archdeacon is responsible for administration of an archdeaconry
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Claude Frollo is a fictional character from the Victor Hugo novel Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame - 1831). Frollo is the Archdeacon of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. He is the antagonist of the novel.
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deaf is used differently in different contexts, and there is some controversy over its meaning and implications. In scientific and medical terms, deafness generally refers to a physical condition characterized by lack of sensitivity to sound.
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Ville de Paris

City flag City coat of arms

Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur
(Latin: "Tossed by the waves, she does not sink")

The Eiffel Tower in Paris, as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro.
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Romani people (Devanagari: रोमानी, as a noun, singular Rom, plural Roma; sometimes Rrom, Rroma) or Romanies are an ethnic group living in many communities all over the world.
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La Esméralda is a fictional character in Victor Hugo's 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame. She is a gypsy girl from Andalusia. She constantly attracts men with her seductive dances, and is rarely seen without her clever goat Djali (pronounced Dahl-ya).
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A pun (or paronomasia) is a phrase that deliberately exploits confusion between similar words for rhetorical effect, whether humorous or serious. For example, the sentence "the world is perspiring against me" is a pun on the paranoid's motto "
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Official status
Official language of: Vatican City
Used for official purposes, but not spoken in everyday speech
Regulated by: Opus Fundatum Latinitas
Roman Catholic Church
Language codes
ISO 639-1: la
ISO 639-2: lat
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Captain Phœbus de Châteaupers is a fictional character from The Hunchback of Notre Dame, an 1831 novel by Victor Hugo. He is the Captain of the King's Archers.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (also known as The Bells of Notre Dame in some countries) is a 1996 animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released to theaters on June 21, 1996 by
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Lon Chaney

Lon Chaney during the production of The Miracle Man, 1919
Birth name Leonidas Frank Chaney
Born March 1 1883
Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.
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silent film is a motion picture with no synchronized recorded sound, especially spoken dialogue.

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The 1923 film version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Lon Chaney as Quasimodo and Patsy Ruth Miller as Esmeralda, and directed by Wallace Worsley, is one of the more famous adaptations of Victor Hugo's
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Charles Laughton

photograph by Carl Van Vechten, 1940.
Birth name Charles Laughton
Born July 1 1899
Scarborough, Yorkshire, England
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1939 American monochrome motion picture. It is considered by some reviewers to be the best of the many film versions of Victor Hugo's classic novel, and perhaps the one that sticks closest to Hugo's plot and
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Anthony Quinn

Anthony Quinn
Birth name Antonio Rudolfo Oaxaca Quinn
Born March 21 1915
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