God Help The Outcasts Analysis

In the track “God Help the Outcasts,” Esmerelda sings a song of prayer, asking God for help. It shows us how helpless and desperate Esmerelda is, how hopelessly trapped she was in the cathedral and how hopeless the situation of the gypsies seems like. The composers made this song into a prayer, metaphorically describing how no one on earth will have helped them. The part of the song where the other characters in the cathedral sing shows how genuine Esmerelda’s prayer is. The others ask for wealth and glory, while all she asks is for freedom, for the oppression of her people to end. While the others sing, they sing loud and demanding, but when Esmerelda sings, she sings softly, pleadingly, also proving how genuine her prayer is.
The track “Heaven’s Light” and “Hellfire” are twin tracks in the movie. These are two songs with similar song structure and theme, however they both have different messages. Heaven’s Light is sung by Quasimodo, of how he fell in love with Esmerelda. He sang of how it felt like heaven, how ecstatic he felt because of …show more content…
A well-drawn movie has consistent styles, is detailed and realistic, includes nothing unnecessary and leaves no empty spaces. The Hunchback of Notre Dame exemplifies all of these descriptions. The art of the backgrounds and the characters were consistent throughout the entire movie, following a similar color scheme of green, purple and red. The art was well detailed, such that you can see the texture of each material allowing the viewers to imagine what the objects may feel like. It was easy to imagine how imperfect the roads were, how rugged the building bricks were, how rough the wood of a table was, and how silky Esmerelda’s dress was. The backdrops of each scene was detailed enough to display the condition of the area, yet there is no excessive clutter that would overpower the subject of the