After Quasimodo tries to kidnap Esmeralda at the behest of Frollo, Quasimodo is punished by being displayed in public and beaten. Esmeralda comes to help Quasimodo during this punishment, providing him with much-needed water to drink. Quasimodo falls in love with Esmeralda for her kindness.
Claude Frollo sends his adopted son Quasimodo to kidnap Esmeralda from the streets. Esmeralda is rescued by Captain Phoebus, with whom she instantly falls in love to the point of obsession.
Esmeralda's looks earn her a ton of unwanted attention. Mostly, this comes from Frollo, who is so taken by her beauty that he attributes it to the devil and sets out to either possess her or destroy her. But Esmeralda's appearance also earns her the animosity of the jealous Fleur-de-Lis and her friends.
During an assignation with Esmeralda, Phoebus is stabbed by Frollo and Esmeralda is arrested, tortured, and wrongly convicted for murder and witchcraft.
A major reason why the plot and characters weren't as good this time around is because the short is far too short at a meagre 63 minutes. On the other hand, the main positive was a surprisingly good performance from Jennifer Love-Hewitt, as Quasimodo's love interest, Madelleine, I just loved her personality.
What is the controversy with the Disney hunchback?
Despite overall being a success upon release, the film was controversial for many different reasons. Parents felt that the film's mature themes were too dark for children to see. Meanwhile, fans of the original novel felt that the film stripped away and simplified all that made the story meaningful.
What is the tragic ending of The Hunchback of Notre Dame?
Shortly thereafter Esmeralda is hanged, and Quasimodo, in his grief and despair, pushes Frollo from the cathedral tower. The novel ends many years later, when two skeletons—that of a hunchback and that of a woman—are found embracing in Esmeralda's tomb. Hugo reports that Phoebus also came to a tragic end: “He married.”
The first is during the Festival of Fools, where she performs on stage in a rather sexy red dress. Some compare her to a stripper in this scene (especially when she twirls around a spear she uses as a makeshift pole).
Quasimodo, in turn, helps Esmeralda secretly escape the cathedral and later bravely saves her from being burned at the stake, and weeps over her when he believes she is dead. During their fight with Frollo, Esmeralda is nearly killed by Frollo because she will not let Quasimodo fall to his death.
Everything is a business, and the Disney Princesses world is one. Esmeralda was removed as she wasn't marketable enough for the franchise's standards, as the sales of The Hunchback of Notre Dame's products weren't good, and because the movie dealt with themes that were not entirely suitable for children.
She was a ravishing young Gypsy girl living a vagabond life as a prostitute. Taunted, despised and even envied by fellow Parisians, her services were lusted after by the wealthy and powerful with obsessive fervor.
Of course, white Roma exist and it is obvious that in Hugo's mind, Agnès/Esmeralda was nothing but a white woman “with a tan”. But the recurring use of actresses, in later adaptations, whose whiteness is portrayed as approximate points to a commodification of Romani ethnicity.
Esmeralda repeatedly spurns Frollo's advances, and when Frollo captures Esmeralda toward the end of the novel and gives her a choice between him and execution, Esmeralda chooses execution. She is hanged on Frollo's orders.
Quasimodo falls in love with Esmeralda for her kindness. Later, Esmeralda is arrested for the murder of the soldier Phoebus (which she did not commit) and sentenced for murder via supposed witchcraft.
Frollo's belief in fate becomes fanatical when he falls in love with Esmeralda and becomes sexually obsessed with her. Although Esmeralda does nothing to invite his attention, Frollo believes that she has bewitched him and thinks that it is his destiny to either seduce her or kill her.
Quasimodo sneaks out of the cathedral during the Festival of Fools, where he is crowned the "King of Fools". While there, he meets Esmeralda, with whom he falls in love.
The most famous scene in the The Hunchback of Notre Dame is when Quasimodo saves Esmeralda from execution, rushes her to the cathedral and cries, “Sanctuary!” Though the act is pretty dramatic (he swings in and out on a rope), it's based on a real religious custom.
Madellaine is the deuteragonist of the 2002 film, The Hunchback of Notre Dame II. In the end of the sequel, she becomes Quasimodo's girlfriend and potential wife.
Writing is Thinking on Tumblr. By the way, has anyone ever wondered why Quasimodo is white with red hair and blue-green eyes when neither of his parents share these traits? Well, the answer is simple. According to the writers of the film, Tab Murphy and Irene Mecchi, these two are NOT Quasimodo's real parents.
Jasmine's physical features are also greatly highlighted and she is one of the most sexualized princesses in the Disney franchise. She uses her body to help save Aladdin multiple times.
She's the love interest of both Quasimodo, the protagonist, Captain Phoebus, the tritagonist and Frollo, the villain. Although Esmeralda ends up with Phoebus and not Quasimodo, she is one of the few heroines not to be obtained by the main character; the first being John Smith.
Whereas his affection for Jehan causes Frollo to behave generously, his lust for Esmeralda causes him to behave destructively—he hounds Esmeralda to death because he cannot satisfy his lust and destroys himself in the process.
However, The Hunchback of Notre Dame is the rare case in which the protagonist, Quasimodo, does not get the girl at the end, at least not in Hugo's novel. Quasimodo is in love with Esmeralda in the novel, but unfortunately, she is hanged at the end of the novel.
Not only that, he has agreed to let Archdeacon Claude Frollo spy on his meeting with Esmeralda. This decision proves his undoing, since as the couple prepare to have sex, the jealous Frollo attacks Phoebus and stabs him in the back.
