ABSTRACT

Notre-Dame de Paris is regarded as the first of Hugo’s romantic novel, which narrated a story of the 15th century in a strange and contrastive way. In this thesis, the author will make a contrastive analysis between two characters in Notre-Dame de Paris in Quasimodo and Claude. This paper will contrast Quasimodo’s beauty and Claude’s ugliness in four aspects: their appearances, their actions, their characteristics and their views on value so as to enable readers to recognize these two characters better and have a deeper understanding of the novel, thus helping people to know what the true value is and what real beauty is.

Key words: Contrastive Analysis  Ugliness  Beauty  Characters

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

ABSTRACT

中文摘要

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION-1-3

1.1 INTRODCUTION TO THE AUTHOR.-1

1.2 INTRODUCTIN TO THE NOVEL.2

1.3 THE PURPOSE AND SIGNIFICANCE-2

1.4 THE STRCTURE OF THIS THESIS.-2-3

CHAPTER TWO LITERATUREREVIEW.-4-6

CHAPTER THREE A CONSTRASIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN QUASIMODO’S BEAUTY AND CLAUDE’S UGLISEENESS-7-13

3.1 AN ANALYSIS OF THEIR APPEARANCE.--7-8

3.1.1 Quasimodo’s Appearence.-7

3.1.2 Claude’s Appearence.-8

3.2 AN ANALYSIS OF THEIR ACTIONS-8-10

3.2.1 Quasimodo’s Actions-8

3.2.2 Claude’s Actions-10

3.3 AN ANALYSIS OF THEIR CHARACTERISTICS-10-11

3.3.1 Quasimodo’s Characteristics-10

3.3.2 Claude’s Characteristics-11

3.4 AN ANALYSIS OF THEIR VIEWS ON VALUE-11-13

3.4.1 Quasimod’s Views on Value-11

3.4.2 Claude’s Views on Value-13

CHAPTER FOUR CONCLUSION-14

BIBLIOGRAPHY-15