Fearing that she will leave him, he decides to kidnap her permanently, but when Christine requests release after two weeks, he agrees on the condition that she wear his ring and be faithful to him. On the roof of the opera house, Christine tells Raoul about her abduction and makes Raoul promise to take her away to a place where Erik can never find her, even if she resists.
Raoul tells Christine he will act on his promise the next day, to which she agrees. However, Christine sympathizes with Erik and decides to sing for him one last time as a means of saying goodbye. Unbeknownst to Christine and Raoul, Erik has been watching them and overheard their whole conversation.
The following night, the enraged and jealous Erik abducts Christine during a production of Faust and tries to force her to marry him.
Raoul is led by a mysterious opera regular known as 'The Persian' into Erik's secret lair deep in the bowels of the opera house, but they end up trapped in a mirrored room by Erik, who threatens that unless Christine agrees to marry him, he will kill them and everyone in the Opera House by using explosives.
Christine agrees to marry Erik. Erik initially tries to drown Raoul and the Persian, using the water which would have been used to douse the explosives, but Christine begs and offers to be his 'living bride', promising him not to kill herself after becoming his bride, as she had both contemplated and attempted earlier in the book.
Erik eventually releases Raoul and the Persian from his torture chamber. When Erik is alone with Christine, he lifts his mask to kiss her on her forehead and is given a kiss back. Erik reveals that he has never received a kiss, not even from his own mother, nor has he been allowed to give one, and is overcome with emotion. He and Christine then cry together and their tears 'mingle'.
Erik later says that he has never felt so close to another human being. He allows the Persian and Raoul to escape, though not before making Christine promise that she will visit him on his death day, and return the gold ring he gave her. He also makes the Persian promise that afterward he will go to the newspaper and report his death, as he will die soon and will die 'of love'. Indeed, sometime later Christine returns to Erik's lair, buries him somewhere where he will never be found by Erik's request and returns the gold ring.
Afterward, a local newspaper runs the simple note: 'Erik is dead'. Christine and Raoul who finds out that Erik has killed his older brother elope together, never to return. Passages narrated directly by the Persian and the final chapter piece together Erik's life: He was the son of a construction business owner, deformed from birth.
He ran away from his native Normandy to work in fairs and in caravans, schooling himself in the arts of the circus across Europe and Asia, and eventually building trick palaces in Persia and Turkey. Eventually, he returned to France and, wearing a mask, started his own construction business. After being subcontracted to work on the foundations of the Palais Garnier, Erik had discreetly built himself a lair to disappear in, complete with hidden passages and other tricks that allowed him to spy on the managers.
Leroux uses the operatic setting in The Phantom of the Opera to use music as a device for foreshadowing. She uses the example of how Leroux introduces Danse Macabre which means 'dance of death' in the gala scene which foreshadows the graveyard scene that comes later where the Phantom plays the fiddle for Christine and attacks Raoul when he tries to intervene. Drumright points out that music is evident throughout the novel in that it is the basis for Christine and Erik's relationship.
Christine sees Erik as her Angel of Music that her father promised would come to her one day. The Phantom sees Christine as his musical protege, and he uses his passion for music to teach her everything he knows.
Stylistically, the novel is framed as a mystery novel as it is narrated through a detective pulling his information from various forms of research. But, it seems that the mystery novel persona was a facade for the real genre being more of a gothic romance.
In his article, Fitzpatrick compares the Phantom to other monsters featured in Gothic horror novels such as Frankenstein's monster, Dr. Jekyll, Dorian Gray, and Count Dracula. The Phantom has a torture chamber where he kidnaps and kills people, and the walls of the chapel in the graveyard are lined with human bones.
People are frightened by him because of his deformities and the acts of violence he commits. The novel features a love triangle between the Phantom, Christine, and Raoul. Raoul is seen as Christine's childhood love whom she is familiar with and has affection for.
He is rich and therefore offers her security as well as a wholesome, Christian marriage. The Phantom, on the other hand, is not familiar. He is dark, ugly, and dangerous and therefore represents the forbidden love. However, Christine is drawn to him because she sees him as her Angel of Music, and she pities his existence of loneliness and darkness. By the time Leroux published The Phantom of the Opera , he had already gained credibility as a crime mystery author in both French and English speaking countries.
He had written six novels prior, two of which had garnered substantial popularity within their first year of publication called The Mystery of the Yellow Room and The Perfume of the Lady in Black.
This serialized version of the story became important when it was read and sought out by Universal Pictures to be adapted into a movie in Based on the critical reviews of two modern day readers of the book, Sean Fitzpatrick and Cathleen Myers, the novel is praiseworthy for its drama, but overall it does not rise to the standards of great literature.
Version: v 1. The project is done in anime-style, and the story is based on the famous play Phantom of the Opera. The action takes place at the Paris Opera House. An incredibly dramatic love story awaits the characters. The Gothic poem was written back in The game directly continues the story of the same name.
Many years after the events of the original, a detective arrives in Paris. He longs to solve the mystery of this ghost. An incredible Adventure awaits the hero who enters the Opera House, and a frightening truth lurks within the walls of this ancient building. Gameplay is based on exploration, reading notes and memos, and exploring the characters of various characters. Each character has a personal character and keeps his own secret.
The protagonist will witness an incredibly sensual and burning love, combined with hatred and contempt. A beautiful era full of beauty and mysticism. The soundtrack is represented by the classic soundtrack that perfectly emphasizes the gloomy tone of Adventure.
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