In The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo, Esmeralda’s behavior demonstrates her simplistic views on love, and how she idealized having this in future. When rescued from Phoebus, she “looked at him intently for a few seconds, as if charmed by his handsome face and grateful for his timely rescue.” (p. 49). After this brief encounter, she decides that she is in love with Phoebus, and wants to marry him. She shows this when she says, “‘I know a better name, Phoebus...Oh a sun! A god!’ Her upper lip trembles.”(p. 68). This behavior of hers shows how she views love, and how she believes it to be black and white, man loves women, they get married, the end. She does not understand the struggles and pains that come with being devoted to another