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In the real novel, La Esmeralda dies a horrible death, all alone (except for her dead mother at her feet).
Through an underhanded act, Phoebus learns of Esmeralda's crush on him. This causes him to jump into action and arrange a rendezvous for the two of them later that night. It is during this rendevous, when things get hot, that the archdeacon jumps out of a closet, stabs Phoebus, and runs off. Esmeralda faints and is found by the authorities with her knife, goat, and the body. She is arrested for murder and witchcraft.
She is then tortured for her confession while Claude secretly watches. Claude is so aggravated by her suffering that under his cassock he slices up his chest with a dagger to restrain himself from running to her aid. She is then sentenced:
..."Gypsy girl, on such a day as it shall please our lord the king, at the hour of noon, you shall be dressed in a smock, and go barefooted, with a rope around your neck, to be taken in a tumbrel to the great door of Notre-Dame, and there you shall do honorable penance with a wax candle of two pounds weight in your hands; from there you shall be taken to the Place de Greve, where you shall be hanged and strangled on the town gibbet,and your goat likewise; furthermore, you shall pay the official three gold lions, in reparation for the crimes by you committed, and by you confessed, of sorcery, magic, prostitution, and murder upon the person of Sieur Phoebus de Chateaupers. May God have mercy on your soul!" book8 chap3
While she awaits her death in a dungeon, Claude comes to visit her. Here he introduces himself and describes all his feelings for her (very scary). Esmeralda only responds with her calls for Phoebus. This drives Claude crazy. He tells her that Phoebus is dead (he is actually alive). The next morning she is brought out into the square to be executed. However, on her way to the gallows she is rescued by Quasimodo who takes her to the cathedral for sanctuary. While in Notre-Dame for the next four years Quasimodo and her do not have tea together and chat endlessly. In fact:
She knew not what to make of this strange friend whom chance had given to her. She would often reproach herself for not feeling grateful enough to close her eyes to his deformity, but decidedly she could not accustom herself to the poor bellringer. He was too ugly. book9 chap4
During her stay, Esmeralda dreams of Phoebus while Claude actually stays away. That is until his urges overcome him and one night the archdeacon enters the gypsy's room.
"Begone, monster! Begone, murderer!" she said in a low voice, that trembled with hate and dread.
"Mercy, mercy!" murmured the priest, pressing his lips to her shoulders.
She seized the scanty hair of his head and tried to squirm away from his kisses as if he were biting her.
"Mercy!" he repeated the wretched man. "If you only knew the my love for you! It is fire, molten lead, it is a thousand daggers in my heart!" And he held her arms with bestial force.
"Let me go!" she cried wildly, "or I'll spit in your face!"
He let her go.
"Vilify me, strike me, be angry with me, do what you will, but for mercy sake, love me!"
Then she struck him with all the fury of a child. She curled her fingers to tear at his face. "Begone, demon!"
"Love me, love me! Pity!" cried the poor priest, grappling with her and answering her blows with kisses. book9 chap6
Once again Quasimodo comes to her rescue, and gives Claude a beating. Esmeralda hardly shows any thanks. Although, her good luck is about to come to an end.
While the Truands storm the cathedral to rescue Esmeralda; Pierre and Claude take her and Djali out the back door and row across the river behind Notre-Dame. Upon landing Pierre takes off with Djali, leaving the gypsy with Claude. Quickly, Claude grabs Esmeralda and hauls her to the gallows.
It is here before that Claude explains his final proposal to her. Esmeralda must choose between death or Claude's bed. In this dire situation, facing death, Esmeralda does the one thing Claude tells her not to do, mention Phoebus!
His eyes were sparkling with rage and licentiousness, and his lascivious lips were reddening the young girl's neck. She struggled in his arms, but he kept covering her with his frothy kisses.
"Don't bite, monster!" she cried. "Oh, you hateful, poisonous monk! Leave me! I'll pull out your vile gray hair and throw it by handfuls in your face!"
He turned red, then pale, then let go of her, and gazed at her sorrowfully.
She now thought she was victorious and continued, "I belong to my Phoebus. It is Phoebus whom I love. It is Phoebus who is handsome. You, priest, you are old and ugly. Go away!"
He shrieked, like some wretch under a branding iron.
"Die then!" he cried, grinding his teeth. book11 chap1
Claude looses it and tells the Recluse to hold Esmeralda while he goes to find the authorities. Of course the Recluse is Esmeralda's mother and through Esmeralda's baby slippers this fact comes to light. Her mother tries to hide her in the cell. But the authorities find her in there, come into the cell, pull out Esmeralda, and drag her to the gallows. At the gibbet her mother bites the executioner. The recluse is then thrown to the ground and dies. Esmeralda is hung on the spot.
All at once the man at the gibbet kicked away the ladder with his heel, and Quasimodo, who for some moments had not breathed, saw swinging from the end of the rope, about two yards from the ground, the unfortunate girl, with the man crouched upon her shoulders. The rope twisted around several times, and Quasimodo saw the girl in writhe with horrible contortions.
