The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Book 9, Chapter 5 summary
Book 9, Chapter 5 of 60 · 3 min to read the chapter
In Chapter 5, Dom Claude learns that La Esmeralda and Phœbus are alive, shuts himself away, and watches the girl with growing desire and jealousy toward Quasimodo. After weeks of isolation and tormenting images, he leaves his cell at night, knowing how to reach the church and carrying a key to the tower stairs.
What happens
- News that La Esmeralda and Phœbus survive destroys the exhausted peace Dom Claude finds in accepting her death.
- Claude shuts himself in his cell for weeks and refuses entry even to the bishop and his brother Jehan.
- From his window, Claude watches La Esmeralda with Quasimodo and interprets their gestures through his own jealousy.
- At night, memories of her wounded, tortured, and exposed body intensify his desire.
- One night, Claude leaves with a lamp, knowing where the church entrance key is kept and carrying the tower staircase key.
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Claude now regards Quasimodo as a possible rival. His shame reveals how strongly this suspicion disturbs his view of himself.
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What does Claude see from his cell window?
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