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Essay On The Torture Chamber

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paragraph #1 - analyzing the torture chamber and the events that occurred there While giving a performance on stage Christine Daeé disappears, and Raoul is determined to save her from Erik this time. To get Christine back, Raoul meets a man who calls himself "the Persian". The Persian and phantom have a history, the two used to live in the same country and once long ago the Persian saved phantoms life and still holds it against him. However, Since the Persian knows phantom he supposedly knows about some of his traps. Therefore, the Persian was willing to help Raoul get past phantoms traps to rescue Christine. Unfortunately, the Persian made a mistake and he and Raoul fell into the torture chamber. The torture chamber is described from the Persians perspective, " We were in the centre of a …show more content…

All six walls were lined with mirrors from top to bottom. .... In one of the corners, the iron tree... the iron tree with the iron branch from which one might hang oneself." (Leroux 234). This is significant because if the reader remembers back to the very first chapter when phantom had not been introduced yet, a man named Joseph Buquet was hung below the stage on the third mezzanine with a Punjab lasso. The connection can be made that Joseph was taken into the torture chamber by Erik and Joseph had fallen for the illusion that the room provides and he hung himself. In addition to this, the reader knows that Erik has many traps within the opera house. The most menacing being the torture chamber, which is described as a desert. It is not said why Erik chose the setting of his torture chamber to be a forest but I suggest that it is because of the fact that phantom was creative in the way he did things. For example, having Christine pick either the grasshopper knob or the scorpion knob instead of her verbally answering the question. In the torture chamber, Erik used effects like a heat lamp, a broken drum, and a

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