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Why Judge Claude Frollo is the Best Disney Villain [The Hunchback of Notre Dame]

Claude Frollo might not be technically the most evil villain of Disney. The likes of Maleficient or Horned King exist after all. But there is significantly more to judge Claude Frollo than just being evil. One of the theme of the movie is that you shouldn't judge people only based on outward appearance. What's truly make them good or not is what is inside. This mainly connects to Quasimodo who looks on the outside but is actually a nice kind hearted soul on the inside. Yet he is rejected by society and made a mockery when he tries to fit. This only makes the ending more satisfying when he is finally accepted after proving that he is a good man and not a monster. On the other hand, Claude Frollo looks like a normal man but he is really a monster underneath, a wolf in sheep's clothing. Frollo may be good or reasonable in how he speaks and represents himself, it's all the ways that he hides his evil and monstruous side from the rest of the world and himself. Thaat makes him such a good compelling villain. One of the first things standing out with Frollo compared to other villain both in Disney animations and in general is that he is a member of the church and thus sees himself as a good man fighting evil. However, Frollo's idea of becoming holy means seeing more evil in everyone else therefore self justifying himself as the holliest. Everything can be bad except him. Of course this is nonsense. Almost all Frollo's actions contradict this idea, especially due to the fact that Frollo is more selfish than most of the people. Because he always sees himself as the holiest person in town, he must vilify everyone else in order to make himself look like the best. He has lowered the bar of what makes not only your holy but also what mesk you worthy of death and punishment.
One of the reason why he acts so agressively throughout the movie is because in order to maintain the illusion that he is holier than everyone else, he must constantly proof that he is better than someone else so the rest of the world believes that he is. Frollo represents the wors tkind of people in society, those putting himself on top by pushing others below them to artificially increase their height. The pening alone might be the greatest opening of any Disney animated movie. Part of that is how intimidating they make Frolo as soon as he appears. On of the first thing Frollo does in the entire movie is to kill someone on screen, that being Quasimodo's mother. Not only it's rare for an actual Disney villain to kill someone, but do it on screen. You would think that him murdering an innocent women would make Frollo having to live with this guilt for the rest of his life. Yet he consistently tries to ignore this fact and burry it deep down as if he never committed the crime. His first thought upon seeing Quasimodo is that the child is hideous. So he decides that he should not exist in this world then he wants to kill him, justifying it by reducing the baby to something inhuman so he can get away with it. However his self inflicted illusion of holiness is broken briefly when he is called out by a man who knows deep down that he is holier than him. This is one of the only moments in Frollo's life where he reconsiders his thoughts and actions, the idea of God and that the saints of old are watching him. HIs eternal soul may be at risk, which is enough to snap his senses. Some villains either try to overcome their flaws, either burry them. In Frollo's case, it's all about burrying them.

Frollo abuses his powers, saying that he is so holy that no action he committs could ever be bad. He put himself on such a pedestral that he believes that he could do no wrong. If something goes wrong due to his actions, he will find someone else to use as a spacegoa and place the blame on. He keeps his station power not because he deserves it but because he manipulates other into thinking they are lesser than him. As for Quasimodo, he doesn't take care of him because he loves him but because he is afraid of what might happen if he doesn't. Frollo sees Quasimodo as a disgrace to society and thus he msut be locked away forever. But Frollo must maintain his " pureness" and thus decided that it's the rest of the world that will hate Quasimodo and sees him as this horrible creature but not him. He pretends that he actually doesn't hate Quasimodo And thus he manipulates Quasimodo into thinking he is the good guy and the rest of the world is the villain. He tricks people into this illusion Even the kind hearted people are not calling out Frollo because they are too afraid that someone supposedly holy is not. Despite claiming to have the high ground, Frollo enjoys when his enemies suffer. That's a man lacking morals. Furthermore he hates it when people he dislike treat those he dislikes with kindness.When he watches Quasimodo get assaulted, he is satisfied because he feels justified that he was right. So he is furious when Esmeralda dares to defend him as she represents a threat potentially ruining his illusion. Speaking about Frollo, one of the major elements of the story is Frollo's lust for Esmeralda. Disney had the guts to make one of their villains main traits being lustful. Unlike mindless ambition of evil and destroying the world, lust is realistic, something that can come prey on anyone. Even someone who think of himself as holy desperatly wants to ignore his lust for Esmeralda.
He still convinces himself that someone like him couldn't have such unholy thoughts, pretending once again that his flaws don't exist. Then we get to the masterpiece, the song " Hellfire ", one of the best Disney songs. It's one of the few times we get an in depth deep dive into the thought process of how the villain himself thinks he is. Not a lot of Disney songs has the same level of depth as this one. In this song, Frollo first proclaims how great and pure he is. He pre establishes that what other say don't matter because he is already perfect. Frollo geniuly believe that he is the good person he has hardwired himself to believe and yet at the same time, he knwos that these lustful feelings he has are not good. It's impossible to be holy, perfect if you have in the same time bad lustful feelings. Frollo refuses to see any errors in himself so he blames Esmeralda for his own lust even through it's his own lack of self control and morality that causes him to lust for her. Frollo puts a heavy emphasis on the word sin when he finally admits his guilt. He says this with such hesitation and dread. Even when he reluctantly admits his guilt to himself he still refuses to take full responsability, now choosing to blame Satan for giving him these thoughts. On top of the amazing dark lyrics, the symbolism in this song is insanely good, especially : 1 : the red robed figures representing the Saints of the past who appear and look upon Frollo from above and judging him for his unholy ways before transforming into flames that surround Frollo, flowing into the fireplace as if they are pulling him to his ultimate fate, perfectly representing what will happen if he doesn't turn from his evil ways. Later when the guard shows up in a glowing white light conveniently placed at the opposite side of the room, far away from Frollo. He brings the word that Esmeralda has gone.
This should be a weight lifted from Frollo's shoulders but instead to catch the given opportunity to give up his lust he actively chooses to ignore this and chase after his desires instead and lastly, he asks God to have mercy on him; demontrating that when he admits his flaws, he moves closer to the light and away from the evil. He can still reject evil and do good instead. Throughotu the whole song we can see that Frollo is a man at war with himself. But instead of seeing the errors of his way and trying to change for the better, he chooses to double down and cover up his flaws pretending that there is someone else's fault. He disguises his evil by projecting it to the gypsies, pretending it's in the name of justice. Futhermore, he places the blame of burning Paris onto Quasimodo, saying that all of that was because he let Esmeralda escapes. He burns houses and kills people because he has, according to him, to undo Quasimodo's mistake. When trying to guilt trip Quasimodo, he tried to use the lie he often told, saying that Quasimodo's mother was the one who really hated him and that he saved him. But by mentionning Quasimodo's mother, it reminds him about the only moment he ever felt afraid for his soul, that his actions may not be pure. After mentionning that he stops trying to guilt trip Quasimodo and leaves. These sprinkles of potential redemption hiding within Frollo makes him such a good villain. I find that villains always failing in their plans are not that great villains. Every top tier villain has at some point has even to have a partial success, making the villain even more hateable.
During the finale, Frollo is willing to cancel the death sentence on Esmeralda only if she accepts to become his. Additionally, a brief line that adds an extra layer of depth on top of this, is that further connects this to Frollo's overarching illusions and lies to himself that he is pure and that he belives that if he makes Esmeralda his, he will be saving her from evil and redeeming her. Both ways are evil. All his actions combined are what make Frollo so despictable and further makes the scene where Quasimodo breaks free and saves Esmeralda so epic and satisfying. Letting a villain have temporary success just make their downfall even more satisfying. But Frollo is now done seeing Quasimodo ruining his plans. So he now wants to kill him and he must justify his hatred into evil desire for death by vilifying Quasimodo and unloyal and insolent.

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During the finale, Frollo is willing to cancel the death sentence on Esmeralda only if she accepts to become his. Additionally, a brief line that adds an extra layer of depth on top of this, is that further connects this to Frollo's overarching illusions and lies to himself that he is pure and that he belives that if he makes Esmeralda his, he will be saving her from evil and redeeming her. Both ways are evil. All his actions combined are what make Frollo so despictable and further makes the scene where Quasimodo breaks free and saves Esmeralda so epic and satisfying. Letting a villain have temporary success just make their downfall even more satisfying. But Frollo is now done seeing Quasimodo ruining his plans. So he now wants to kill him and he must justify his hatred into evil desire for death by vilifying Quasimodo and unloyal and insolent. Frollo's death is one of the most poetic and well written of any Disney villain. Not only he died because of his own actions but we see all his buried evil come to surface in the finale, revealing his true nature. It was extra evident in how he no longer calls even Quasimodo by his name, reeducing him to the hunchback. Once he unburries all his darkness, he crosses the line from an evil man convinced that he is good to an evil man who cannot hide his evil. Now that he prooved that he is no longer redeemable, God judges him unworthy. In this moment, Frollo realizes that he failed and all his live choices flash to him. But now it's too late.


How To Write A Realistic Villain - The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Disney already had history books to write the story. They obviously added the talking gargoyles. Frollo is placed in the perfect setting to justify his evil actions. Frollo uses his position as Minister of Justice to justify his cruely and oppression. His actions are driven by twisted beliefs that he is upholding divine justice. He trully believes he is doing God's work. He belives that Eminari people like Esmeraldo are sinners. So he hunts them down, seeing this as his duty to cleanse Paris. He feels like it's justify to kill people that he sees as evil or unclean. Hunchback of Notre Dame is actually based on some historical dynamics. Disney's decision to adapt the hunchback of Notre Dame was a departure from their typical light hearted fair.

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