Question regarding Frollo...Mother Gothel.
Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2015 2:33 pm
So I´m watching right now Hunchback, a movie that, thanks to most of you I discovered as a masterpiece and now it´s one of my top 5 favorite Disney movies.
Once I opened a topic asking if Mother Gothel somehow loved Rapunzel; arguments were made and in the end we could each take the answer we like the best.
In case of Frollo there´s no denying he didn´t love Quasimodo at all. However, there´s still the case of him raising Quasimodo. He raised a human being by himself; sure, we can all guess he hired people to help him (when was a baby mostly) but what we´re presented in the movie tells us he did everything himself. And that´s quite a task.
He took care of him as a baby, fed him, dressed (yes even if what he wears it´s something simple; but there was Winter), taught him to talk and even educated him.
Even in the scene where Quasimodo´s been humiliated at the festival when he asks for help he turns the face not wanting to see; to me he didn´t enjoy that cruelty. Let´s remember the scene before when his latest captain was being tortured. When he heard him scream he loved hearing it. And when Phoebus asks to release him and he tells him that "a lesson needs to be learned" I do believe it; yes it was awful but that´s how he was punishing him for disobeying him.
So, what do you get of this? I myself don´t know.
Once I opened a topic asking if Mother Gothel somehow loved Rapunzel; arguments were made and in the end we could each take the answer we like the best.
In case of Frollo there´s no denying he didn´t love Quasimodo at all. However, there´s still the case of him raising Quasimodo. He raised a human being by himself; sure, we can all guess he hired people to help him (when was a baby mostly) but what we´re presented in the movie tells us he did everything himself. And that´s quite a task.
He took care of him as a baby, fed him, dressed (yes even if what he wears it´s something simple; but there was Winter), taught him to talk and even educated him.
Even in the scene where Quasimodo´s been humiliated at the festival when he asks for help he turns the face not wanting to see; to me he didn´t enjoy that cruelty. Let´s remember the scene before when his latest captain was being tortured. When he heard him scream he loved hearing it. And when Phoebus asks to release him and he tells him that "a lesson needs to be learned" I do believe it; yes it was awful but that´s how he was punishing him for disobeying him.
So, what do you get of this? I myself don´t know.