I kissed her alive Erik tells Daroga that even his mother was so appalled by his ugliness that she never allowed him to kiss her. She used to run away Here Erik once again reminds us of Freud. This was not Erik kissing Christine. This was the kiss of death on the forehead of life. But what happens when death kisses life? This one kiss wipes out all his hatred. The horrible ghost fell to his knees, crying and freed both Christine and Raoul. When the Death Instinct kisses the Life Instinct, death dies and life lives on.
The Phantom of the Opera shows that love has the power to annihilate the formidable ghost of hatred. Love has created light out of darkness; if there were no love, there would be no universe. Some writers have used the metaphor of a building to describe the human mind.
The first floor or structure of that building is called the Id, which represents irrational unconscious desires while the third floor, the SuperEgo, represents the moral voice or conscience of that individual. The middle or the second floor is occupied by the manager, the Ego, which tries to fulfill the desires coming from the depths of the first floor while keeping in mind the outer realities and the moral edicts issued by the conscience sitting on the top floor.
Interestingly, in The Phantom of the Opera, the ghost constantly sends its instructions to the manager of the opera house. These instincts constantly fight to dominate over the second and the floor floors.
In traditional metaphysics, the man is a still more complex reality. Erik falls in love with Christine but expresses his feelings in harmful and at times disastrous manners, such as sabotaging performances and taking Raoul captive. He is childish and gives the impression that he is usually one to have things his way a tendency that is evident in Raoul as well.
Christine is the main female protagonist of the novel. Christine is originally from Sweden. Her mother died while she was young; her father, with whom she had a very close relationship, died a few years later, but he passed down his passion for music to Christine and told her tales of an angel of music.
Erik manipulates Christine into thinking he is the angel of music, and is thus able to gain her trust. Christine is the love interest of both Erik and Raoul, and Erik's jealousy over her love for Raoul is a major source of conflict throughout the novel. Raoul is the Viscount of Chagny and Christine's childhood friend.
When they meet years later, after Raoul watches Christine's performance at the Opera, they fall in love, get engaged, and make plans to elope. However, Erik, who also loves Christine, grows jealous of Raoul; conflict arises as the two men compete for her, despite Erik's feelings being unrequited.
He is rash, impatient, and often speaks his mind without considering the relationships that he has built with the people around him, particularly in regard to his brother Philippe and his lover Christine. Philippe is Raoul's older brother.
As both of their parents have died, Philippe is owner of the family estate and wealth, and takes care of Raoul. He opposes Raoul and Christine's relationship and marriage, causing them to keep their engagement secret.
Madame Giry is the box keeper of the Opera. According to his account of himself in the novel, the Persian served as the chief of police daroga in the court of the Shah of Persia during the years that Erik was there. He refers to these times as "the rosy hours of Mazenderan". Being kindhearted, he helped Erik escape from Persia when the Shah-in-Shah ordered him executed, a trick that involved presenting a body washed up on the shore as Erik's.
He later traveled to Paris and took up living in a small, middle-class flat in the Rue de Rivoli, across the street from the Tuileries, on the modest pension he received from the Persian government. He became known as a fixture of the Opera, considered an eccentric Persian and allowed to wander backstage where he pleased.
He has a Persian servant whose name is Darius. He is described in the novel as having an " ebony skin, with eyes of jade ", and he wears a short astrakhan cap along with normal dress clothes. Leroux writes that he has " a noble and generous heart " and is very concerned for the fate of others. The Persian first appears during Christine and Raoul's mad flight from the rooftops and warns them to go a different way.
He leads Raoul through the passages of the Opera House to Christine's dressing room, where they go through the revolving door hidden in Christine's mirror and travel down through the passages under the Opera. Bless you, underwhelming Phantom musical. The Persian is also featured in the animated Phantom of the Opera movie!
Posted July 14, at am notes. Home Throw me a thought! Permalink "I have only seen the Broadway version of the phantom and I haven't read the book yet. He also tell you the end of the novel and what happened. He was a police-chief in the court of the Shah when Erik was in Persia. We love Darius.
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