In many ways, Erik gives Christine his music: the most intimate gift he has to offer.
#THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA MASK ORIGIN HOW TO#
Under the Phantom's tutelage, Christine learns how to use her voice more expressively and with a unique tone that causes her to be singled out for a lead role (instead of simply singing in the chorus). Initially, Christine mistakes Erik for this Angel. Christine's father told her stories of the "Angel of Music," who appeared to all worthy musicians at some point in their lives to provide divine inspiration. Throughout the novel, musical performance is used to symbolize deep spiritual experience. Satisfied emotionally, and feeling accepted and loved for the first time in his life, Erik behaves as though he is already married, and lets the men go as a favor to someone he loves. She holds his hand, kisses him on the forehead, and shows him some of the basic human decency he has longed for since childhood. To save Raoul's life, Christine agrees to marry Erik, and in fact she commits emotionally to this decision even though she does not love him. Late in the book, after he releases the Persian narrator and the other men he kidnapped, Erik agrees to take the men to the surface as a favor to his wife. What he desires above all else is to be loved, appreciated, and accepted for his own sake.
Although Erik is attracted to Christine physically, sex is not his primary motive for wanting to marry her. Throughout their "courtship," Erik supervises them closely.Įrik's fixation with Christine is not simply a matter of physical desire. Unfortunately, a week into the game Raoul realizes he really is in love with Christine. Marriage (Allegory)Įrik is obsessed with Christine and wants to marry her, yet he encourages her to pretend to be engaged to Raoul for a month before he leaves on a scientific expedition to the North Pole. Erik is almost completely delusional near the end of the novel, due partly to the infected bullet wound that eventually claims his life. de Chagny becomes completely disoriented and confused in the torture-chamber, and Erik himself becomes increasingly unhinged as his obsession with Christine leads him to kidnap and torture the Persian and M. Using his trap-doors to move silently and mysteriously through the Opera-house, Erik plays pranks on the staff and singers, causing them to question their memory. The credulous Christine at first believes she is hearing her father's "Angel of Music," or perhaps her father himself, although in reality it is Erik. Many people have occasion to question their sanity throughout the book. It is Christine's willingness to take his hand and kiss him on the forehead that breaks through to Erik and inspires him to act with kindness and compassion. His own mother would not kiss him, but rather forced him to wear a mask. He is therefore alienated from human society despite his ongoing attempt to join it. Yet the mask also sets him apart from other human beings, with whom he does not interact directly. Erik's masks - and he has several - allow him to pass briefly in human society without being noticed.
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