Phantom of the opera

Name : Amir Haziq Bin Zainudin

Class : 1Bestari
School : Sultan Alam Shah
Title : Phantom of the opera

Theme
Appearance and reality
What we see may not be what is true. Erik appears hideous but he is a
multi-talented genius. Unfortunately, people only see his ugliness, and
this ruins Erik’s life. He is forced to hide behind a mask from his
childhood days because people cannot accept him as he is. Only
Christine is willing to see beyond physical reality. She sees that Erik is
not just the monster he has been forced to become, he is also a lonely,
deeply hurt man who only wants to loved for who he is. This what
everyone wants.

Rejection corrupts
When Erik is rejected and treated like a monster, he actually does turn
into a monster. Hurt and angry, he becomes selfish and manipulative in
order to survive. He makes use of people like the directors. He is cruel
and violent when people do not give him what he want. When Carlotta
insists on singing after he warns her not to, he simply destroys her
career by humiliating her during a performance. He even causes the
death of an innocent woman, but he does not care one bit.

Sacrifice
Sacrifice is the highest, noblest form of love. When we give up our
own comfort or safety for the sake of someone else, we show how
great our love for that person is. Christine gives up her happiness for
the sake of raoul, and also because she understands how lonely and
desperate Erik is to be loved. We also see that sacrifice has the power
to change people. When Christine agrees to marry Erik, he is so
touched by her compassion for him and her willingness to sacrifice her
own happiness that he lets her and the others go. Christine’s sacrifice
prompts Erik to make a sacrifice too and he lets his prisoners go.
Love
Like sacrifices, love is powerful too. Christine’s love for Raoul and her
sympathy toward Erik makes her choose to sacrifice her happiness for
them.

Compassion
Compassion can save even the damned. Erik may be an evil monster, but
a little compassion from Christine melts his heart. He shows that even
after years of hatred and selfishness, his sense of human kindness is
not dead. His suprising softness at the end does, in some way, redeem
him.

Sypnosis
A dancer at The Paris Opera House claims to have seen the Phantom,
supposedly a ghost that haunts the opera house. Another dancer, Meg
Giry, warns them not to speak about the Phantom. Madame Giry, Meg’s
mother who is a doorkeeper at the opera house, tells the girls that
Joseph Buquet, a stage worker, has been found dead. The two new
director, Monsieur Armand Moncharmin and Monsieur Firmin Richard,
receive a letter from the Phantom demanding Box 5 for his personal
use as well as 20 000 francs. They think it is a bad joke. La Carlotta,
the lead singer, falls ill and Christine Daae, her understudy, takes her
place. Christine is an immediate success. Raoul, a handsome young
nobleman, is in audience. He remembers Christine whom he met in
Brittany four years earlier, and goes to see her in the dressing room
after the show. Christine pretends not to know him. She tells him to
leave. He waits outside, then goes back to her room. Standing outside,
he hears a man’s voice in Christine’s room. The director get a second
letter from the Phantom. This time, he also insists that Christine
should sing instead of La Carlotta. They ignore this latter too. Madame
Giry warns them to take the Phantom’s demand seriously. They refuse
to listen to her. Christine writes to Raoul to say she wants to meet him.
They meet in the Tuileries Grdens. She teels him about the Phantom.
She says the Phantom is her music teacher. La Carlotta is angry. She
will not agree. That evening, the Phantom disrupts La Carlotta’s
performance, and cause a chandelier to crash down on the audience. A
woman killed. La Carlotta is so afraid that she never sings again. The
opera house closes for two weeks. Christine disappears, then sends a
letter to Raoul to meet her secretly. She tells him that the Phantom
has taken her to his home on the lake under the opera house. Hw=e
wants her to marry him. Roul insists that Christine must marry only
him. Christine must marry only him. Christine begs Raoul not to see her
again, otherwise, the Phantom will kill him. The Phantom has been
listening to their conversation. The mysterious Persian appears and
helps them get away safely. Raoul’s older brother advises him to forget
Christine because of her lowly status. The director, afraid, finally
reserve Box 5 for the Phantom and leave the money he requested
there for him. Christine is kidnapped during the show. The Persian and
Raoul look for her. The Persian leads Raoul to the Phantom’s
underground lake. They are trapped in the room of mirrors. The
Phantom forced Christine to marry him. She agrees when he says the
Persian and Raoul will die if she does not. Christine kisses the Phantom
on the mouth. He is deeply moved. He decides to let her and the man
go. Madame Giry goes to see the Persian. He tells her what happened.
Christine and Raoul are never heard of again. The Phantom commits
suicide.

Main Character
Erik
The person who is called as Phantom of the Opera. He wears a mask
because he has a terrible face, has no nose and has just two black

holes in his yellow face.

Characters
Raoul
The one who love Christine very much and wanted to marry her. He is
young and handsome. He goes against his brother’s wishes and vows to
marry Christine. He does not let wealth, power or status stand in the
way of his love to Christine. Raoul is ready to take on the Phantom
although everyone else is terrified of him. He dashes off to rescue
Christine when the Phantom kidnaps her during a performance.

Christine
The women who also loved Raoul but their relationship have been
interrupted by Erik known as The Phantom Of The Opera. She is a
young and pretty woman. She sings like an angel. She comes from
Norway to Paris to become the best singer in the world. She was all
alone after her father dies. She was in dilemma when Erik wanted to
kill Raoul if she doesn’t accept his love.
The Phantom
He is an intelligent man. He is Shrewd, cunning and manipulative. He is
selfish and reckless in getting what he wants. Other than that, he is
vengeful. He is Passionate and deeply emotional. The Phantom is the
person that has an ugly face. He uses people’s fear of ugliness to get
what he wants by ‘turning’ himself into Phantom or Ghost.

The Persian
He is always in the Opera House and knows about Erik. He also knows
about Erik’s bad intention to Christine. One day, The Persian helped
Raoul and Christine by showing the right stairs to escape. He is a
person that has a mysterious figure who seems to know Erik well. He is
the one who follows Erik from Persia to France.
ABOUT Opera House in Paris
The Opera House in Paris is a very famous and beautiful building. It is
the biggest Opera House in the world. Work on the building began
1861, finished in 1875, and cost forty-seven million franc.

It has seventeen floors, ten above the ground, and seven under
the ground. Behind and under the stage, there are stairs and passages
and many, many rooms-dressing-rooms for the singers and the dancers,
rooms for the stage workers, the opera dresses and shoes…There are
more than 2,500 doors in the building. You can walk for hours and never
see daylight, under the Paris Opera House.

And the Opera House has a ghost, a phantom, a man in black

clothes. He is a body without a head, or a head without a body. He has
a yellow face, he has no nose, he has black holes for eyes…

This is the story of the Phantom Of The Opera. It begins one day
in 1880, in the dancers’ dressing room…