The Phantom of the Opera Essays

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 Laemmle creates the Americanized, silent film The Phantom of the Opera. Due to the

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

This film/musical was not what I expected when I found out that it was the sequel to “The Phantom of the Opera” I was excited when I found out about it but was disappointed once I watched it. A few reasons I think that it disappointed me are: The dramatic change of character in Meg and Raoul. Meg, who in the first film was Christine 's best friend, Is now like a completely different person. She has changed so much in the ten years. She was once Christine’s loyal friend and an overall quiet person

The daytime class contains fewer students than the nighttime class, so I broke the daytime class into three groups. Each group was required to act out one scenario; the scene with Messieurs Debienne and Poligny signing the Opera House to Messieurs Richard and Moncharmin was omitted. One student was absent, so the Comte de Chagny was cut from the Christine’s shining moment. The groups consisting of three people, five people, and three people had approximately twenty-five minutes to discuss how they

Internal Turmoil We are able to see the outer realities of all the characters in the play, Phantom of the Opera, but we can only see glimpses of the character’s inner realities. The Phantom and Christine are two characters who have an abundance of internal and external turmoil to talk about. The Phantom has experienced a great number of events throughout his life. He has been living alone in the basement of the opera house his whole life, so he doesn’t know how to interact with people well, other than

together within the performances of The Phantom of the Opera and Cats both composed by Andrew Lloyd Weber. The opulent gothic context, the external realistic style, and the ability to explore musical theatre with a higher soprano singing from The Phantom of the Opera contrast with the bleak modernistic context, internal realistic style, and the ability to explore musical theatre with an alto pitched singing from Cats. In the context of The Phantom of the Opera musical the inspiration was sourced from

French journalist Gaston Leroux’s amazing Gothic novel, The Phantom of the Opera had strong words “Erik is not truly dead. He lives on within the souls of those who choose to listen to the music of the night.” Gaston was a journalist and graduated Law school inheriting millions of Francs. However, due to misspending, he almost reached bankruptcy and started working as a full time journalist and author of various books like The Phantom of the Opera. The novel originally written in French has been transcribed

In the book Phantom of the Opera, Erik is a man who has a lot of power; he would use his power to hurt and manipulate people. He was a man of trade and had the ability to manipulate people with his amazing skills as a lover of magic. Many people wondered how he had gotten to that point, but they soon realized when they noticed how ugly he was. His mother and father never loved him because of how unattractive he was. He looked like the face of death, from what many people called him, without a nose

I’m going to start with a definition of adversity. Adversity is difficulty and misfortune. In the following paragraphs are examples of people who had diversity and a quote about adversity. And how they worked through it. In almost any example of an adversity the thing that keeps people going for their loved ones. Because people do the best and more when they do it for someone else. It's easier to keep going and not self pity when there's someone else to fight for. To take that next step, when it

Will Kushinada-hime and Persephone find a way to be able to live a peaceful life with their families without having to worry about the dangers villains cast upon them? In The Legend of Yamata-no Orochi, Kushinada-hime, the daughter of an elderly couple was to be sacrificed to the monster Yamata-no Orochi. The monster has already devoured Kushinada-hime’s eight other siblings and her parents are determined to save their only remaining child. A man named Susano-o comes to their village and sees them

However, due to how the music and drama is written in this opera as exotic elements, Death in Venice is closer to pure exoticism. According to Locke, pure exoticism is "the process of evoking… a social milieu… that is not entirely imaginary and differs profoundly from the home culture in attitudes, customs, and

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

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

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, and Les Misérables. Cats it's a musical solely based off of the works of T.S. Eliot. It takes place in a rubbish pile somewhere, in some unknown city. The peculiar thing about this rubbish pile is that it becomes alive with cats shortly

Auctioneer: lot 666 blah blah big mystery blah blah phantom blah blah blah Chandelier: WOOSH Opera House: TRANSFORMED Raoul: I 'm gay! I mean, erm, immensely beautiful with my swooshy hair SWOOSH Carlotta: Worship me! Managers: Looky! Hot ballet girls! Madame Giry: No touchy! Carlotta: I 'm sick of managers who love ballet girls, I quit! Managers: BLINK BLINK Now what? Madame Giry: Christine can sing it. Christine: SINGS Audience: Ooooh, aaaaahh… Raoul: I wonder if Christine will still love me if

This was the perfect time for Andrew Lloyd Webber to write his long-anticipated major romantic story The Phantom of the Opera. Webber contacted Cameron Mackintosh and proposed this new musical. “Widely considered one of the most beautiful and spectacular productions in history, playing to over 145 million people in 41 countries, 183 cities in 17 languages” (Really

This book is about a ten year old boy named Alonzo King. Alonzo is fascinated by monsters and the show monsters at midnight. No one in his town believes in monsters but him and a teacher named Mr. Blake. His birthday is on Halloween and he wants to be known as the boy of a thousand faces. He paints his face and takes pictures with a Polaroid camera to see how many different faces that he can make. The whole town starts talking about an unknown image known as “the beast”. Alonzo had become the talk

the Opera. La Sorelli, a principal dancer, isin her dressing room when a group of young ballet dancers run in after their performance.The entire group is terrified because they claim to have seen the ghost. They discuss thefear that the ghost instills in even the bravest people and the rumored appearance of theghost. Joseph Buquet has told the best account of seeing the ghost. Another ballerina,Meg Giry, speaks up and tells the girls that the ghost has own private box at the Opera, of

“Broadway master” because his musical Phantom of the Opera surpassed his own record for the musical Cats to now hold the record for the longest running musical on Broadway as well as London’s West End ( Snelson 1). Cats has been translated into eleven languages and has grossed over a total of two billion dollars. What is even more impressive is the fact that ever since Evita opened in 1979, there has always been an Andrew Lloyd Webber show