Phantom Of The Opera Jealousy

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Ms. Morton
ENG3U
5 August 2015
Violent Acts in the Name of Love as Seen in The Phantom of the Opera Love can make people commit violent acts that they would normally not consider. The Phantom of the Opera is a novel written by Gaston Leroux, which combines love and violence to explore relationships between men and women whose personal experiences of love are vastly different. It is about a man named Erik, also known as The Phantom of the Opera. He has a devil’s appearance and angel’s voice. His shameful face made his parents hate and ignore him. They made him wear a mask to hide his face and keep him away. Erik feels he is separate from society, Erik feels strong sense of inferiority, choosing to close his heart and live alone in the darkness. …show more content…

The Phantom sings to Christine as an angel. He teaches her how to sing, and he uses his beautiful voice to control Christine and make her love him. Erik’s desire for Christine becomes more powerful when Christine divulges that she is in love with Raoul. The feelings of jealousy are strongly developed in Erik’s mind, which brings him to a rage. He becomes so jealous of the perfect man, Raoul, who has everything he wants, especially Christine’s love. With his strong jealousy in mind, Erik’s hatred starts to burn like a fire after he finds Christine’s secretly in a relationship with Raoul. He takes Christine away and makes a request that Christine should marry him; Christine is in a panic and refuses his love. The Phantom plans to take revenge to hurt Raoul. When Erik’s heart is filled with bitterness, Christine becomes fearful. Her angel of a voice becomes a devil who threatens her and her love. She no longer admires him but is afraid of him. Erik wishes for someone to cherish him but he is afraid to be hurt. He uses extreme measures to love Christine because he has never been taught how to love people and has never had love in his …show more content…

The Phantom of the Opera contains a love triangle: the Phantom loves Christine while Christine’s childhood friend, Raoul, loves her, too. Christine is stuck in the middle, as she loves both, Raoul and Erik. Raoul’s feelings towards Christine are genuine. Erik’s feelings for Christine are genuine as well, although it looks very different than Raoul’s love. When Christine does not challenge Erik’s love early on in the story, he feels nothing but pure affection for Christine. He unselfishly teaches her to sing, and he provides comfort to her when her father dies. Erik doesn’t know the difference between love and obsession and thinks that his obsession towards Christine is love because he has never been loved. Erik’s love for Christine is, without a doubt, sincere and true. He is desperate for acceptance and for someone to love him as seen when he says, “I love you Christine. Marry me, be my wife, and love me” (143). The Phantom says with sincere eyes and even with sorrows, which beg for Christine’s love. However, when Christine and Raoul meet again after several years, Erik sees that Christine was still in love with her childhood friend. Erik decides that the only way to win Christine was to force her to love him. However, he then realizes that her love for Raoul will never fade. This throws him into a rage, and he is ready to kill himself and everyone in the opera house if he

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