Gaston Leroux Essays

After thirty years, Say Anything directed by Cameron Crowe was able to retain the title of being a classic film. The creators of this film aimed to pack several characteristics in this film that allow it to be considered a classic film. This includes having a sturdy plot, and an uncommon story backed up with noteworthy dialogue between the main characters. Say Anything began with introducing each main character, which allowed the audience to understand the type of person they were. It was established

The Voice of the Young The Gambia, often referred to as the smiling coast of Africa because of the way it is shaped on the map of Africa, is my home, my country of birth and citizenship. With a population of less than two million, two-thirds of which are young, The Gambia is devoted to promoting the rights and welfare of her children. As such, a number of organizations for children exist all over the country. One of the best things that ever happened to me was joining the Voice of the Young, a child-led

Fantôme de l’Opéra delves deep into the recesses of the deranged yet genius mind of Erik, the Opera Ghost. Created by French novelist Gaston Leroux, Leroux writes about a tortured man known as the Opera Ghost or the Phantom who falls in love and becomes obsessed with a young chorus girl after tutoring her in singing. When felt challenged for her affection by a childhood friend, the Phantom begins killing anybody who he believes will keep her from him. Captivated by Leroux’s story, filmmaker Carl

Barring the novel’s title, the word “phantom” is never again used in reference to Erik in Gaston LeRoux’s The Phantom of the Opera; in other words, the choice of the word phantom appears to be an entirely deliberate ploy to convey a reality of Erik’s nature. To examine LeRoux’s motivations in selecting such a word in his title, one must examine the etymology of the word in its original French form, fantôme. In spite of its contemporary meaning of “a ghost or apparition,” the word is derived from

In Gaston Leroux’s story, The Phantom of the Opera, Christine's attraction to both the Phantom and Raoul leads to turmoil and difficult decisions as shown through repetition when referring to both. Firstly, on the roof of the Opera house, Christine tries to prove to Raoul that the Phantom of the Opera really exists. After expressing how terrifying her experience with him was, she, in a trance-like state, says “but his voice filled my spirit with a strange, sweet sound” (Leroux 38). The author's

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

Love is a choice, a feeling, a kind of belief and a kind of responsibility. I get this thesis from two different places. In the movie “Beauty and the Beast” and the novel “Phantom of the Opera,” we can see this theme when we analyze the similarities and differences between the characters of the Beast and Erik, and Belle and Christine. In the movie “Beauty and the Beast”, the Beast choice Belle, he do not choice any other girls. He just loves Belle. Why? Maybe because of Belle is very beauty, but

I am interested in the Arts and Science program at McMaster for many reasons, but a few of them include self-discovery, an influential community, and an exceptional education. I have always been devoted to following my dreams and have always desired a fulfilling education, which I know will be available to me in this program. For a while now, I have been struggling to narrow down an exact plan for my future. It has been a difficult decision for me to choose a specific undergrad program because by

Broadway Musicals Through out the years Broadway has produced many wonderful musicals. Many of these musicals are based on comedy, or carry a highly comical tone. However, Broadway is probably most well-known for its more thought evoking, solemn musicals. Topics for these musicals rang anywhere from the obscurity of cats dancing in a junk yard, to the barricades of nineteenth century France. Here are some of the most influential and best known musicals: Cats, The Phantom of the Opera,

The reemergence of the grotesque in the arts was only one of a remarkable range of new expressive models through which the grotesque was extended, expanded, and reinvented in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These cultural vehicles for the grotesque included such disparate developments as psychoanalysis, photography, mass media, science fiction, ethnography, weapons of mass destruction, globalization, and virtual reality. The modern era witnessed an explosion of literary imagery that in various

In her 1939 novel And Then There Were None, Dame Agatha Christie writes, “I have devised for my own private amusement the most ingenious ways of carrying out a murder,” (Christie 178). The speaker in this case, Justice Wargrave, may just as well be Christie herself. The inventive author once said, “I enjoy thinking of a detective story, planning it, but when the time comes to write it, it is like going to work every day, like having a job” (“Agatha…” UXL). Christie set out to twist the form of