Characters- phantom of the opera

In the phantom of the opera, the first main character is the phantom that can be called as Erik. Erik plays as a very weird, evil and haunting the opera, as for example “the dancer talk about Erik in the dressing room, they were very scared because the chief stagehand, Joseph Buquet is found hanged”. To be obvious, he was killed by Erik who dissatisfied with the new directors. Erik was born in a small town outside of Rouen, France but sadly he was born hideously deformed. The most unacceptable event in his life is when her mother also doesn’t want to see his face since he was child because of ugliness. Due to that he becoming a very mysterious person and isolating himself. “People can hear his voices but cannot see his face. It was in Christine’s dressing room,Christine told”.

Besides,Erik is brilliant because he was the designer of The Opera house with many passages. He can be in every part in the opera house, wall to wall and he also can live underground lake and he build his house under the beneath of the opera house. In contrast, he also can be good men for example the ways he treat madam Giry, madam Giry knows that Erik is a human being and need loves like the other man. Thus, Erik will bring Madam Giry roses, until her becoming loyal to Erik.

Besides that, Christine daae is the other main character. She is a young, Swedish soprano. She can be described as loyal person and she is very passionate towards her career. “She left Sweden to be an opera singer”. In addition, she loves Viscount Raoul de Chagny her friend since she was child and they have been love until she becoming an opera singer. Furthermore, Christine also plays as an arrogant and selfish person because she can't accept a love proposal from Erik at first. However, she changed her minds after she looks Erik torturing her boyfriend when he captured Raoul and the Persian. Furthermore, Viscount Raoul de Chagny is a very young, rich and handsome guy. Hence, most girls are trying to seduce him but he refused to so since he is Christine's childhood friend and love interest.

Therefore, we can assume him as loyal and not betraying Christine. In the novel, he plays as a high status man who mingles with all the artistes in the Opera including Christine and likes to enjoy and soprano performances.

The Persian and the directors in the novel can be assumed as the supporting characters. However, they hold and play a very contrast characters. The directors are not believed in any mysterious ghost and tend to act like nothing would be happens when Erik sent a warning letter. They are likely greedy since they wanted box no 5 which Erik’s belong to be sold. Thus, something bad happened when the chandelier fell down and killed the audience. Additionally, the Persian is a loyal and holds a character as a guard in Erik’s house. Besides he is also helpful since he guided Raoul to the Erik’s house under the opera house.

settings- phantom of the opera

Settings are important for readers to get ideas toward the storylines. Besides, readers will be more eager to capture and analyze what is the story is all about. Thus, it is important for writers indicate any setting in their literature works. Consequently, in the novel “Phantom of the Opera" there are three important settings to be shared which are:

Place

Opera House which located somewhere in rural area of French, the town is beautifully amazed with nature settings by a seaside town of Perros-Guirec,Perros. Essentially, it also belongs to Erik and Mme tTime who both are spend almost every nights and time in the opera house. Furthermore, This house can be describe as big as palace which has seventeen floor, ten above the ground and seven under the ground behind, under the stage, there are stairs and passages. There are many rooms such as dressing room for the singer and dancer, room for the stage worker, the opera dresses and shoes. Amazingly, there are more than 2500 door in the building.

Social

The social setting take place after reviewing some factors, a town which consists of members that like to watch opera performances, besides the society can be illustrated as still applying their traditional values and customs especially things which regards with the power of black magic and myths. Furthermore, based on the social setting it will somehow relate with the historical setting. As for example, Paris is the most popular place with arts, opera and always associated with romantic city due to society who loves watching Opera that full of elements of romance. To be surprised, readers can see people in different status show their interest on watching opera by sitting together when the opera starts.

TIME

Broadly speaking, It can be stated that time setting in the novel is during the late nineteenth – century. This is due to the statement in the novel “The Phantom of the Opera opens at the Paris Opera-House in the late nineteenth-century, with the production of “Hannibal” (the elephant-tamer, not the face-eater)”. The Opera House was built in 1861 and finished in 1875 with cost forty seven million France. The story begins one day in 1880, when the people in the Opera House are really scared with the ghost in the Opera House. They never see the ghost, but they can hear his voice. Besides, the traditions of watching opera performances and listening to the Sopranos Songs are popular during at the particular time.

thesis statement- phantom of the opera

Thesis statement is the author’s view of the story. It is his stands about as he wrote the storyline. In this novel, the author emphasizes the elements of love that can be seen through the characters of Christine Daae and Raoul de Chagny. In the story, Raoul met Christine by the sea on a holiday in Brittany and falls in love with her ever since. Four years later, when Christine works as an opera singer in the famous Paris Opera House, they meet again and their love blooms as the time goes by. As the love blooms for these two people, there is another man that wants Christine love and he is willing to do anything to win Christine’s heart even if he had to kidnap Christine.

Unfortunately for the ‘Phantom of the Opera’, Christine did not return his love and this leads to another theme in the story which is sacrifice. When Christine Daae is kidnapped by Erik, Raoul went after her for the sake of his love one. Daae realize that there was nothing angelic about Erik and willing to sacrifice for Raoul by agreeing to marry the phantom. This shows that both Christine and Raoul are willing to sacrifeice for each other no matter what happened between them. Besides that, Gaston Leroux also emphasizes on the issues of love between different social class people. For example, Raoul’s elder brother, Philippe dislike the relationship between Christine Daae and his brother because of the fact that they came from a different social class. Raoul came from a very respective family while Christine Daae is just an ordinary opera singer. But somehow, Raoul did not respond to his brother’s advice and still holding up to his love for the young opera singer. The author also raised the matter of tragic and tragedy which took place in the opera house itself.

The tragedy starts when somebody found Joseph Buquet’s body hanging in the opera house and people knew that it was the phantom that killed the opera worker. Then, the phantom create chaos when he dislikes the singing of La Carlotta and change her voice into

toad and that night, the great chandelier went down and killed one woman. That night, too, many people were hurt and cause La Carlotta to never sing again. The final tragedy that took place in the novel is when Christine Daae was kidnapped by the phantom and he forced her to marry him. Then, came to tragic events where Erik was found dead as a result of heartbreak upon learning the true love between Christine Daae and Raoul de Chagny. That is the author’s stand of the story ‘Phantom of the Opera’.

synopsis - phantom of the opera

Every story needs a synopsis for the readers to get an overview of the story itself. My groups did a presentation on the novel ‘Phantom of the Opera’. We had chosen this novel because of the mysterious story and characters that was created by famous French novelist, Gaston Leroux. Nowadays, there are many version of the novel itself in terms of the storyline, and it has been made into theater, play, and movie. Although there are many version of the story, but we had chosen the original version from Gaston Leroux.

The story happened in Paris Opera House somewhere in 1880. In the opera house, there lived a ghost that haunts everyone including the dancers, workers, directors, box keepers, audience and the singers. Yes, the beautiful opera house singer is the one that has been haunted the most by the ghost that lived seven feet under the opera house. The phantom himself had been giving Christine Daae a singing lesson each night and had been the ‘Angel of Music’ for her ever since. The truth is that he wants Christine to love him as much as he loves her. But sadly, Christine Daae finds her true love in Raoul de Chagny, the high class family in the society. Upon knowing Christine’s love for Raoul, Erik gets angry and he is willing to do anything that would win Christine’s heart. The feeling of envy towards de Chagny brings Erik to create chaos in the opera house.

Basically, the phantom can do numerous acts that would be considered as a warning should anybody disobey his wish or commands. The phantom killed Joseph Buquet for talking bad about him and this proves that the phantom dislikes being talked about. The climax starts when Christine Daae performs on the Faust night, the lights suddenly went out, and the audience heard a woman’s scream. It is Christine’s voice and when the lights came on again, Christine Daae was not there on the stage.

She is missing without a trace. Raoul and the Persian went after her and they were looking all over the place. Suddenly, they found a secret door which they assume to connect with Erik’s secret place. Unfortunately for them, they were trapped in Erik’s torture chamber. Erik let Christine watch the suffering of her loved one and forced to marry him if she wants Raoul and the Persian to be free. Christine sacrifices herself for the sake of her love towards Vicomte de Chagny. She kissed Erik with all her heart and promise to marry him should he free Raoul and the Persian.

Erik realizes the true love between the opera singer and Raoul de Chagny and he were deeply touched by the sincere heart of Christine Daae. Erik felt guilty for all his evil action towards everyone in the opera house. Three weeks after he releases Christine and Raoul, he died of heartbreak and nobody ever saw him again. Nobody in Paris ever saw Raoul and Christine again and perhaps they live happily ever after somewhere in the North.

phantom of the opera - the author

BIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITER.

Students who studying literature is compulsory to make some research about writer’s biography to get some ideas about the factors that will influence of their writing. Thus, students will be clear why and how the writer wanted to write about something events which happened around them during those particular years.

In the novel phantom of the opera, the writer is known as Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux. He was born on 6 May 1868 in Paris, France. Fundamentally, he was a well – known French journalist and author of detective fiction. However, in the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, such as the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney; and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical. Besides, it was also the basis of the 1990 novel Phantom by Susan Kay which is very popular around Europe.

Leroux went to school in Normandy and studied law in Paris, graduating in 1889. In 1890, he began working as a court reporter and theater critic for L'Écho de Paris. His most important journalism came when he began working as an international correspondent for the Paris newspaper Le Matin. Surprisingly, he suddenly left journalism in 1907, and began writing fictions as his passions. In 1909, he and Arthur Bernède made a further step by forming their own film company, Société des Cinéromans to simultaneously publish novels and turn them into films.

Then,he first wrote a mystery novel entitled Le mystère de la chambre jaune (1908; The Mystery of the Yellow Room), starring the amateur detective Joseph Rouletabille. To be proud, Leroux's contribution to French detective fiction is considered a similar to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's in the United Kingdom and Edgar Allan Poe's in America. Sadly, Leroux died in Nice on April 15, 1927, due to the urinary tract infection.

what is literature analysis?

WHAT IS LITERATURE ANALYSIS AND THE ELEMENTS OF IT.?

Literature can be defined as artworks which include stories, poems and plays, especially those that are considered to have value as art and not just entertainment. Literature analysis is an argument by the readers toward writer’s work on literary review. Basically it may involve research on analysis of secondary resources. Usually, a literary analysis will involve a discussion of a text as writing, thus the term literary, which means “having to do with letters”. Thus, it will basically involve with the usage of certain concepts that are very specifically associated with literature. Furthermore, the basic concepts can be divided into several elements which are Plot, Setting, Narration/point of view, Characterization, Symbol, Metaphor, Genre and Irony/ambiguity. Besides that, the other key concepts for instance, Historical context , Social, political, economic contexts will be blended into literary texts as the literary reviews.

WHAT IS AN ANALYSIS?

An analysis of a literary work may discuss several important rudiments such as how the various components of an individual work relate to each other, how two separate literary works deal with similar concepts or forms and lastly how concepts and forms in literary works relate to larger aesthetic, political, social, economic, or religious contexts. However, in this report it will focus on the basic and most important elements in any literary works which are thematic statements, plots, characters, and moral values.

advertisment - 1 st tutorial

My dearest friend :)


During my 1st tutorial, my lecturer Assoc Prof. Datin Dr Norizan asked to re -publish an advertisement. Therefore we can practice our skills to write and polishing our creativity.

so, what do you think about my advertisment?

hope you will like it : )

with love,
adam amin

Blog Questionnaire - Posting 6

BLOG QUESTIONNAIRE-SKBP 1023

Age: 22 Years old

Lecturer : Assoc Prof Datin Dr Norizan Abd Razak

1. Do you enjoy blogging? Yes

please explain why:

As a student in this age, blogging is a part of learning technology and where language students are able to share their thought and knowledge through information gathering online. I am optimist blogging will be an effective medium for new generation of students' to express opinions as well as to discuss upon new ways of learning with people globally to figure out the best ways to boost students' potential and creativity. Besides that, through blogging students are able to search relevant educational materials to be learn by other students intensively.


2.Based on your experience what is the benefit of blogging?

They are vast benefits of blogging especially for students. Basically they will know to use updated technologies upon language studies. As we are aware, language students will not only depending on paper to opposing their knowledge. Blogging is among interesting path for students gathering opinions since it is user friendly and free to be used. Furthermore, lecturers can observe their blogs content and materials anywhere and everywhere since internet will make blogging more exciting. students will be able to upload related pictures or videos upon particular topic to make the topic more captivating and understandable.



3.Do you need more assistance to set up your blog ? If YES Please explain on what aspect :

Yes, i need more assistance to ensure my blog will be more interesting and able to attract people around the world to read and commenting upon my thought. Therefore, i do hope my blog will be hitting more frequently and people can give some beneficial comments to improve English usage among students and figuring new and fresh ideas to maintain and improve marks as well as to ensure Malaysian students will be more competence within international students

4.Do you have any memorable/favorite topic in your blog? If YES Please list which topic ?

Yes, and to answer this question, i am particularly like to write about E-komuniti project since i was in that seminar and i am personally think that it is such a brilliant effort to narrow gap among people in our beloved country. Besides that, i do prefer all the postings that had been given by my lecturers since it is related to my studies especially for this particular subject. Concordance topic for example give students that language is not just a language to communicate but also will consider technologies to analyzing texts and masterpiece. Additionally, when the students been asked to find articles about blogging we found out tremendous advantages can be found on blogging.

5.List 5 advantages of blogging for you

• Students can share information upon any topics
• Students can give some comments upon particular issues
• The topic can be shared globally by international students
• Materials and information can easily found via internet
• Blogging can be interesting ways of learning as it is interactive medium of thought.
  

6.List 5 disadvantages of blogging

• students need at least a computer or laptop
• Require internet coverage as an important elements to blogging
• Some information can just simply plagiarized by other party
• The content somehow are hardly to be understand.
• Lack of skills to make our blog readable
  

7.Will you continue blogging after the course?
If Yes or No Please explain why :

Yes, i will always updating my blogs and sharing new information upon new style of learning. therefore, it will not be a waste after learning such a very good teaching. Besides that, through blogging i can reach more contacts who is interested on education improvements.


8.Do you think that blogging improve your writing?

yes, i am strongly agreed that blogging can improve writing if it will consider educational purposes. Besides through blogging, students can improve their language and style of writing by reading other blogs which is emphasizing the importance of educations. Apart from that, blogging also will improve students' vocabulary since new terms can be learned through materials searching via internet.

9.Do you think that we should continue with blogging activity for the next batch of students?

Yes, therefore they can learn such a very beneficial ways to improve their language skills as well as to ensure themselves to be more computer literate.

10.Will you recommend your friend to blog?

My anwer is yes, due to the reasons of achieving new standard of learning.

11.Can you teach a friend to set up his or her blog?

I am proud to learn this subject as i can share my knowledge to the others. There are no barries to learn as long as we have the desirable to get knowledge and improve ourselves.

Concordance - posting 5

My Dearest friend,

i would like to explain about "Concordance" in language context. Basically, what is concordance? so, let me give some descriptions of it as i've learned from my Language and IT class conducted by Assoc Prof Datin Dr Norizan.


Concordance is an alphabetized list of the most frequently occurring words in a book, excluding common words such as "of" and "it." The font size of a word is proportional to the number of times it occurs in the book. Hover your mouse over a word to see how many times it occurs, or click on a word to see a list of book excerpts containing that word.

therefore, it will be more easier for us as a reader or researcher to figure out words counting as well as reducing tensions and saving more time consumptions.

in recent times, "concordancer" has been invented as a software and plug - in tools which will help to the usage of corncodancing.

Below is some articles which regard to the article:

With Concordance, you can

• make indexes and word lists
• count word frequencies
• compare different usages of a word
• analyse keywords
• find phrases and idioms

Concordance is being used in

• Language teaching and learning
• Data mining and data clean-up
• Literary and linguistic scholarship
• Translation and language engineering
• Corpus linguistics
• Natural language software development
• Lexicography
• Content analysis in many disciplines including accountancy, history, marketing, musicology, politics, geography, and media studies

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LINGUISTIC INSIGHTS FROM CONCORDANCING

Concordancers are certainly not tools that computer novices can be turned loose on without proper preparation beforehand. In many instances, both students and teachers must be made aware of the methodological considerations underpinning use of such software. Inherent limitations in the database are rarely intuitively understood. Why, for example, should the word 'potential' never occur in a corpus of biology readings, yet occur repeatedly in a corpus of physics texts, always as a property of energy? The relationship between raw data and output is not obvious to all, and the very existence of the text base, its particular bias, and its relevance to the students must all be explained and emphasized.

Formulation of productive queries is particularly difficult for language learners, who may need assistance until they have become familiar with the technique. Misspellings which spoil productive searches are common, and successful use of wild cards requires near-native competence in anticipating word derivations. It is also difficult for language learners to independently phrase queries so that they will expose subtle patterns in the language. Such patterns will likely have to be pre-considered by the teacher/facilitator, and until students have got the hang of concordancing, heuristics for getting at patterns will likely have to be worked out in advance and spelled out to students as well.

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Therefore, as language is dynamic and will always facing changes, such software and more research upon new technologies for linguist usage are very important. English and language is so fascinating to be learned as language will narrow barriers. Concordance is among beneficial software for educational purposes.

E-komuniti - an effort for people (posting 4)

Hai friends,

i am glad took an opportunity to join a seminar held by E-Community Research Center. A center of excellence on bridging digital divide appointed by EPU Malaysia.You might wonder what E-komuniti is all about right? Let me share some information, E-Komuniti is an project to narrow gap of internet usage for those in rural areas.Therefore, it is such a brilliant efforts as i do certainly believe that they should be aware upon the advantages of using internet.

Thank you so much Prof Datin Dr Norizan for this mesmerizing experiences!

Apart from that, the seminar had gathered experts to discuss on certain issues regarding internet usage for people's benefit.

I am totally impressed with the ideas of tele-centers which been explained by Prof Datin Dr Norizan and also one of her student's presentation upon blogging as to reduce writing apprehensions.

Telecenters By Datin Norizan

Basically, the research is based in Kedah where 85% of them are living in rural areas. Thus, the needs to introduce IT and internet for them are necessary to help bridging "world" through the new technologies in a context of Malaysia.

However some barriers occurring within the process:

1) they are poor to have a computer.
2) No skills and no ideas for using computer and internet.
3) There's no intentions of using internet

As been aware of that particular factors, efforts are needed to persuade those people to use internet according to their interest.

"Interest" here means that they can use wide advantages of internet to search information regarding weather, current technologies of fishing as well as global rate of fish pricing since most of them earn living as fisherman.

Blogging as beneficial activity to reduce writing apprehensions.

The talk was given by one of the Datin's student which is Madam Azianura. I thought the ideas of why students are lack in writing skills are due to the writing apprehensions.

some factors may lead to these reasons:

• Scared to write
• Hands cramp
• Hate writing
• Produced shorter essays
• Ideas hairdly developed

Thus, i am strongly agree that blogging can improve writing skills as stated by Madam Azianura
" Learn from mistakes, it is a best teacher". Besides, there is no obstacles to write via blog but teachers will always perfom as a guider! we should appreciate our teachers friends! :)

see you in the next posting :)

With Love,
Adam Amin