And in her heart she felt the need to show him that he was not alone and to kiss him.
She came towards him wanting not just to release Raul but to release him from his darkness and his feeling of hate and despair for the world and himself, showing that he can be loved, that she does love him and that he can love too, in her heart he is still her angel, she cannot help but do as her heart told her. She was probably heartbroken seeing not only Raul being threatened in that way, but Erik being tortured by his own hate and despair. Christine kissed Erik (the phantom) with passion and she even touched the deformed side of his face with tenderness! She truly wanted to kiss him at that moment. It would be hard to love someone like that for anyone.Īnswer: It can be seen in so many different ways. We are led to believe that this is a love triangle, but this is an incel man forcing love on to an unsuspecting woman, and when she chooses another man he acts out in his typical fashion, putting them both in danger. By the end of the show, Christine is terrified of him and is begging Raul to protect and hide her from Eric. At every point where things don't go his way, Eric throws a tantrum and ruins things for everyone in the Opera House. Eric brought her down into his home under the pretense of having her sing for his music, then suddenly turned his tone into a romantic one and showed her and lifelike mannequin he made of her - that's incredibly creepy. Raul on the other hand, was her dear childhood friend, who represented memories with her father.
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He continued this gaslighting throughout the movie / play, outright stating several times that he was her Angel of Music.
I won't provide spoilers here, but more information about "Love Never Dies" can be found at: (musical).Īnswer: First of all, Eric pretended to be a guardian angel sent from her dead father to teach her to sing. Andrew Lloyd Weber wrote a sequel to " The Phantom of the Opera" called " Love Never Dies." In it, we learn that the Phantom did, indeed, remain in Christine's life. She probably always shared a connection to Erik, who possessed for her a depth of love she could never know from any other man. From the ending of the film, we learn that Christine remained wife to Raoul, but it is unclear how happily her life turned out. Christine ultimately makes the only choice society makes available to her - the safe and sane choice. He is unstable, driven to madness by a world of light he can never know. And yet, as his role turns from that of protector and teacher to one of lustful suitor, he comes to represent darkness, passion, lust, obsession, and danger. He has been to her like a guardian angel. Then there is Erik, the Phantom, with whom Christine has had a long time bond. There is Raoul, who represents safety, light, and a sort of romantic, adolescent view of what true love should mean. Christine lives as a sheltered child-like woman in a highly patriarchal Victorian society. Here is my best attempt at a brief summary. Chosen answer: This is a very short, but very complex question about which dissertations are written.