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Jehan is Claude Frollo’s younger brother and a student at the University in Paris. Jehan is adopted by Frollo at a young age, after their parents die from the plague. Although Frollo provides the best possible education for Jehan, Jehan squanders his time at university and spends all his money drinking and visiting prostitutes. Jehan is notorious for his involvement in many brawls on campus and does not respect Frollo, despite the many sacrifices Frollo has made for him. Instead, Jehan believes his older brother is mad and foolish and only visits him when he wants money. Like Frollo, however, Jehan is prone to extreme emotions and is very impulsive. While Frollo represses this side of himself, Jehan gives in to all his emotions and sensual urges and does so with relish. He loves pleasure and wants to live a life of debauchery. This is demonstrated when Jehan finally decides to give up his respectable education for good and become a “truant.” Jehan’s extreme personality and impulsive nature are eventually his downfall when he joins the riot against Notre Dame and throws himself into the fighting. He is killed by Quasimodo, who defends the cathedral during this riot.
Jehan Frollo Quotes in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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Book 4, Chapter 2
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He realized there were other things in the world besides the speculations of the Sorbonne and the verses of Homerus, that man has need of affection, that without tenderness and love life was just a harsh and mechanical clockwork, in need of lubrication.
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Book 7, Chapter 4
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He, who wore his heart on his sleeve, who observed none of the world’s laws except the law of nature, who allowed his passions to escape through his inclinations, and in whom the reservoir of strong emotion was always dry, so many fresh drains did he dig for it each morning, he had no idea of how the sea of human passions rages and ferments and boils once it is refused all outlet, of how it accumulates and increases and flows over, of how it scours the heart and breaks out into inward sobs and dumb convulsions, until it has torn down its dykes and burst its bed. Jehan had always been deceived by Claude Frollo’s austere and icy exterior, that chill surface of precipitous and inaccessible virtue. That this seething, raging lava bubbled deep beneath the snowclad brow of Etna had never occurred to the cheerful student.
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Jehan Frollo Quotes in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The The Hunchback of Notre Dame quotes below are all either spoken by Jehan Frollo or refer to Jehan Frollo. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Book 4, Chapter 2
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He realized there were other things in the world besides the speculations of the Sorbonne and the verses of Homerus, that man has need of affection, that without tenderness and love life was just a harsh and mechanical clockwork, in need of lubrication.
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Book 7, Chapter 4
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He, who wore his heart on his sleeve, who observed none of the world’s laws except the law of nature, who allowed his passions to escape through his inclinations, and in whom the reservoir of strong emotion was always dry, so many fresh drains did he dig for it each morning, he had no idea of how the sea of human passions rages and ferments and boils once it is refused all outlet, of how it accumulates and increases and flows over, of how it scours the heart and breaks out into inward sobs and dumb convulsions, until it has torn down its dykes and burst its bed. Jehan had always been deceived by Claude Frollo’s austere and icy exterior, that chill surface of precipitous and inaccessible virtue. That this seething, raging lava bubbled deep beneath the snowclad brow of Etna had never occurred to the cheerful student.
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