*One of the themes of the book, which commences with the words spoken by Claude Frollo 'the one will kill the other,' [Book 5: Chapter 2], talks about architecture and the effect the printing press will have on it. Hugo argues that before the printing press that architecture was the way humanity recorded ideas, and now that books have become common, that architecture will now no longer serve this purpose. | *One of the themes of the book, which commences with the words spoken by Claude Frollo 'the one will kill the other,' [Book 5: Chapter 2], talks about architecture and the effect the printing press will have on it. Hugo argues that before the printing press that architecture was the way humanity recorded ideas, and now that books have become common, that architecture will now no longer serve this purpose. |