Quasimodo

Not to mention his despicable treatment of Quasimodo and consuming lust for Esmeralda.

There is no motley cast, of course, no churchmen, no Quasimodo, no Esmeralda.

It’s a Quasimodo style of victory rather than that of an Olympian.

In an interview with The Hunchback Of Notre Dame directors Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise revealed that Mandy Patinkin auditioned for Quasimodo, and that it went incredibly poorly.

Quasimodo’s disability is clumsily handled by an able-bodied actor and an unimaginative costume department.

That is the reason why Esmeralda, Quasimodo, and Claude Frollo are so close to the hearts of viewers even today.

The story centers around Quasimodo, a disfigured orphan played by sophomore Evan Balasubramaniam and raised as a secretive recluse by Archdeacon Claude Frollo, played by junior Jordan Klotz.

Although Esmeralda does not love him, and in fact believes him a coward rather than a true man — unlike Phoebus, he failed in his attempt to rescue her from Quasimodo — she takes pity on his plight and marries him.

A popular focus of the citizens' attentions, she experiences their changeable attitudes, being first adored as an entertainer, then hated as a witch, before being lauded again for her dramatic rescue by Quasimodo.

He briefly enters the cathedral by ascending one of the towers with a borrowed ladder, but Quasimodo sees him and throws him down to his death.

He orders Quasimodo to kidnap her, but the hunchback is captured by Phoebus and his guards, who save Esmeralda.

It is revealed in the story that the baby Quasimodo was left by the Gypsies in place of Esmeralda, whom they abducted.

When Frollo laughs during Esmeralda's hanging, Quasimodo pushes him from the heights of Notre Dame to his death.

When Quasimodo sees the Gypsies, he assumes they are there to hurt Esmeralda, so he drives them off.