Talk:Claude Frollo/@comment-26579445-20150814012656/@comment-6032121-20160202160004

To original poster, let me post an elaborate answer:

He is being racist and genocidal and that's evil, but it's not like he was wrong all the way. Frollo, as a minister of Justice, was tasked to protect the city, and for that he wanted to eliminate the thieves. And, though  they're not "monsters" and they're not an "inferior race" deserving to be exterminated, most Gypsies we see in the film seem to be thieves and conmen, and the Court of Miracles in the novel (and it's partially kept in the movie, especially if the lyrics of the song — "the scoundrels of Paris collect in a lair"… — are taken into account) was as much a refuge for parisian thieves as it was specifically a refuge for the gypsies. Thus, Frollo's specific and irrational hatred of the Gypsies seems to me as having "glided" of his original job.