1. Don’t look at your face, girl, be careful. The hearts of handsome young people are often ugly, and some people's hearts cannot hold love. Girl, pines and cypresses are not as beautiful as poplar trees, but they can retain their green color in winter.

Alas! What's the use of saying this? Ugly people are born wrong, beautiful people are beautiful, April will only turn its back to January. Beauty is supreme, beauty is omnipotent, and beauty is the only complete thing. Crows only fly during the day, owls only fly at night, and swans can fly during the day and night.

Appreciation: I like this passage very much, it is beautiful and lyrical. This is also the voice that Quasimodo sometimes expresses when he likes Esmeralda, and it is also the main theme of the whole work.

2. Please listen to the music of the bell tower orchestra, and imagine the whispers of half a million people, the endless whining of the Seine, and the sound of the wind spreading over the entire sound system. The endless sighs, the distant and low quartet of the four forests on the horizon hills like the shells of huge pipe organs.

Just like in a middle-tone painting, you eliminate all the too hoarse and too sharp sounds in the central bells; then, please tell me, what other sounds in the world are more powerful? Richer, more joyful, more golden, more dazzling.

Better than this chime of bells, better than this melting pot of music, better than these many three-hundred-foot-high stone flutes making all kinds of sonorous sounds at the same time, better than this being just a band. The city is better than this stormy symphony!

Appreciation: This is the last section of "A Bird's Eye View of Paris". It is a tribute to the tolling of all the bells in Paris at sunrise. It is Hugo's self-proclaimed epic work and is generally praised by readers and writers. In his own country, Hugo's reputation as a poet was greater than his reputation as a novelist.

Therefore, when a poet writes a novel, it is inevitable that his writing will be full of poetry. However, here, it does not blend well with the gloomy and tragic tone of the book. Destiny is like the huge shadow of the bell tower of Notre Dame that envelopes each volume, pushing the protagonist to the doomed ending with the force of violent wind and rain. And this passage is like a bright spot in the shadow, the moment of calm before the storm.

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Creative background

In France, the Bourbon dynasty, which was overthrown by the bourgeois revolutionary regime, in 1815 with the support of foreign feudal forces Restoration. It was not until 1830 that the "July Revolution" broke out in France, ending the feudal rule of the Bourbon Restoration Dynasty.

Under the Restoration Dynasty, the French court and church worked together to oppress the people. In Paris at that time, the religious forces were evil and dark, feudalism and other systems were very cruel, and human nature was distorted and degenerated under the suppression of feudalism. All classes of society, especially the lower classes, are in a position of deep sympathy.

The oppressed people rose up to resist, launched a heroic struggle against the two forces, and finally won. Hugo felt the darkness and cruelty of feudal rule and created "Notre Dame de Paris" to reflect real life through Parisian society in the 15th century.

The title of "Notre Dame de Paris" refers to the place where the story takes place - Notre Dame de Paris. In 1829, Victor Hugo began to create "Notre Dame de Paris" in order to let people at that time understand the value of this Gothic building.

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