Analysis Notre-Dame de Paris: The significant theme of fate in "Notre-Dame de Paris" is strongly ennumerated in several ways: the general trend towards fatalism in plot and character (especially Frollo) and the motif of the fly in the spider web, strongly smelling of fate, but moreso interpereted as the fly caught on a journey towards a light, or freedom. This image so skillfully displays in the truest Hugoesque style this particular struggle of man, desperately …showed first 75 words of 1300 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1300 total…more deeply into. If you are interested in further learning about Hugo in this regard, I have read a truly excellent book which discusses his major novels and does a fine and thorough job of analysing them. It is called "Victor Hugo and the Visionary Novel" by Victor Brombert. It is from this book from which I have extracted most of my knowledge about Hugo's works, so check it out if you get a chance.