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{{Q|All my life, you've told me the world was a dark, cruel place! But now I see that the only thing dark and cruel about it is people like you!|Quasimodo to Frollo as he prepares to kill him.}} | {{Q|All my life, you've told me the world was a dark, cruel place! But now I see that the only thing dark and cruel about it is people like you!|Quasimodo to Frollo as he prepares to kill him.}} | ||
Though Quasimodo's very first appearance was in 1831 in Victor Hugo's novel, ''Notre-Dame de Paris'', this incarnation of the character first appears in the 1996 film, ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'', in which he is raised by Judge Claude [[Frollo]] inside the cathedral and forbidden from ever leaving, on the basis that such a heartless society would never accept him. Frollo's words almost come true when Quasimodo does sneak out to attend the Festival of Fools, where he is ridiculed and tortured by the cruel peasantry until a kindhearted gypsy girl, Esmeralda, defies Frollo and defends Quasimodo from the cruel crowd. Quasimodo begins to fall in love with Esmeralda, and it is this love that leads him to rebel against Frollo's tyranny, which ultimately leads to a showdown between Quasimodo and Frollo atop the balconies of Notre Dame. Following Frollo's demise, Quasimodo is hailed a hero and accepted into | Though Quasimodo's very first appearance was in 1831 in Victor Hugo's novel, ''Notre-Dame de Paris'', this incarnation of the character first appears in the 1996 film, ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'', in which he is raised by Judge Claude [[Frollo]] inside the cathedral and forbidden from ever leaving, on the basis that such a heartless society would never accept him. Frollo's words almost come true when Quasimodo does sneak out to attend the Festival of Fools, where he is ridiculed and tortured by the cruel peasantry until a kindhearted gypsy girl, Esmeralda, defies Frollo and defends Quasimodo from the cruel crowd. Quasimodo begins to fall in love with Esmeralda, and it is this love that leads him to rebel against Frollo's tyranny, which ultimately leads to a showdown between Quasimodo and Frollo atop the balconies of Notre Dame. Following Frollo's demise, Quasimodo is hailed a hero and accepted into society at last. | ||
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