Heaven's Light and Hellfire
The song was intended to contrast the song "Heaven's Light", which was sung by Quasimodo moments earlier, expressing his feelings of love for Esmeralda, while "Hellfire" focuses on Frollo's internal conflict between his feelings of lust and his conscience and hate for the gypsies.
The two songs, which are sometimes referred to collectively as Heaven's Light/Hellfire (for example on the soundtrack where it is track 7), describe two opposing views towards the same woman. Quasimodo sees Esmerelda as Heaven's Light while Frollo sees her as a Hellfire.
It could be considered as a dark reprise to the earlier song.
Simon Brew of Den of Geek! argues that throughout the song, Frollo goes through a similar kind of torture that Quasimodo puts himself through in Heaven's Light.
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