Analysis of Setting

Analysis of Setting

            During the beginning of the book “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” the setting takes place in Paris during the winter time in the middle ages. (To be exact the book starts on January 6 1482) This book starts with the double holiday of the feast of fools and the epiphany. The current economic setting for the book so far does not seem to be very wealthy because there are citizens that are stealing belongings from others when they are paying attention to the festivities that are going on in the feast of fools and the epiphany. Many of the citizens seem not to mind in taking part in some of the foolish activities such as joining along in the Fool’s Pope where one citizen achieves the title of Fool’s Pope for a day, to receive this title the citizen must make the most outrageous face in a competition between other citizens to win and the crowd members are the ones who vote on who wins the competition.

The socio economic setting is that we see that this area in Paris is suffering with large amounts of citizens in poverty which leads some citizens to turn on each other where they loot and steal from others while they are not paying attention.  The historic reference in my part of the book is that the third person narration tells us much information about the hall but though we are not able to see it in person due to the fact that it was severely burned in the 16^th hundreds.