Hunchbacks Trial Is Unfair

In the novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo talks about how the hunchbacks trial is unfair and about Quasimodo's punishment is for kidnapping La Esmeralda. Quasimodo is deaf and so is the judge so neither of them know when they are being talked to. Once Quasimodo is being interrogated, he starts to answer questions that have been asked previously while the judge is asking new questions. The audience is laughing so the judge assumes he is being rude and sends him to the pillory for an extra hour. Evidence that supports this claim is when Hugo wrote, “But, first of all, as we have already observed, Master Florian did not care to have his deafness noticed. Secondly, he was so stone deaf that he did not hear one word that the clerk