Victor Hugo's The Hunchback Of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is set in medieval France. To be more specific, the story takes place in Paris. Every one has seen the classic Disney movie The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Like most Disney movies, the actual story is much darker and more brutal. In the novel, the author goes into great detail about the culture of medieval Paris. Victor Hugo goes to great lengths to talk about the architecture of the time period. He also talks about the cities justice system, as well as the thoughts and feelings of the people. He even goes into small details about the health system. There is much to compare to the time period. Victor Hugo made it his goal to make his novel as historically accurate as he could. When he gets the chance, he names the date

More than a century later, Philip Augustus finally finished it. Unfortunately, the ground that it was built on was unstable. The ground level was slowly raised and swallowed up the once visible foundation. Later on, enemies of the monarch attacked a large part of the cathedral during the French revolution and left scars on the building. Although nature did its fair share of tearing down the building, most of the destruction was done by men. By the time of the novel, the cathedral was missing many statures and even a flight of eleven steps leading to the front entrance. Victor Hugo states that the Cathedral of Notre Dame is not one type of architecture. People throughout the ages kept trying to improve the style of the church, only causing more destruction and damage. Hugo claims that each time period left a little bit of itself on the church. After he describes the cathedral itself, he then describes Paris around it. During the time of the novel, Paris had been separated into three parts. The first part was called the Cité. The Cité was the most populated island. It had the most churches, including Notre Dame. The second part was called the Ville. This is where all the palaces were, including the Louvre and the City Hall. The third and final part was called the Université. This is where all the colleges were, including the Sorbonne. Victor Hugo states that even though the city had grown immensely, the beauty of the

Health and medicine in medieval France was very reliant on the help of the lord. When Frolo was a child, his parents died of the plague of 1466. In 1466, nearly 40,000 people died in Paris because of this plague. It travelled around Europe for more than a century. The disease ravaged around Europe before finally moving to Russia years later. This illness is believed to have wiped out one third of the entire population of Europe. There was no cure for the plague. The crowds believed that it was gods will, that god was punishing them for all of their sins. The only thing that they could do was sit back and punish themselves while they died. Doctors during medieval times in France didn’t really do much of anything besides ask for help from the lord, and push people to their limits. As I mentioned before, Esmeralda was taken to a torture room to be forced to confess her crimes of killing Phoebus. She refused to confess to a crime she did not do, so the judge called in a doctor to pull her limbs away from her. Also, Phoebus gets stabbed multiple times, and somehow survives. Doctors during the medieval times did not have any real knowledge on medicine. They believed that if they were supposed to live, then god would make them live. Most of the time, treatments for wounds and illness would only make things worse. In medieval Paris, to treat a stab wound, the doctors would not