7. Quasimodo on Trial

QUASIMODO ON TRIAL
TRIAL 2 - QUASIMODO AND DEAF COURT ( SILENT MUSIC )
Second of the trials. It turns out that the judge is as deaf as Q. The trial becomes humorous because the judge doesn't know what's going on any more than Quasimodo does. The rowdy gallery mocks the trial and the judge loses control a bit, becomes confused. Q. joins the frivolity with a little dance to entertain the court, but the judge does not find it funny and sentences Quasimodo to a hard whipping. Q. has a moment of confused sadness, knowing he has lost the crowd; and then they take him to a cart for the . . .
PROCESSION TO PILLORY
. . trip to his whipping. Q. is put in the cart, but someone has the idea that he should pull it himself. He is harnessed up and some of the crowd is pulled to the pillory by Quasimodo.