Moral values-phantom of the opera

Moral values are important in any literary texts as it will somehow bring some positive elements in literary works. In the novel “phantom of the opera” Gaston Leroux emphasizes on the factors of loyalty, love, sacrificing and friendship. Sacrificing is the most significance values can be seen in the novel when the main character, Christine Daae is willing to sacrifice his life for her Raoul upon seeing him being tortured by The Phantom in his torture chamber. She is willing to marry Erik (The Phantom) only if he releases Raoul and The Persian. From the story itself, the writer tries to convey that love can make people sacrifice for each other, even if they have to suffer.

The other moral values that can be found is that we as human being should not alienate people based on physical appearance. For example, the character Madam Giry refuses to mistreat Erik the same way as other people does. She accepts the presence of The Phantom in the opera and becoming a very good friend to Erik. She realizes that Erik is just a human being who deserved loves and life partner and she is not excluded Erik like others did.

Besides, based on the story the readers might get some clear justification on how to treat person that we love. Erik somehow failed to behave as rational person by kidnapping Christine just because of his envious toward Christine’s relationship with Raoul. Hence, people especially readers should understand that love could not been forced since love should comes naturally like how Christine loving Raoul.

In contrast, phantom of the opera also raised issues which regard with moral values for instance loyalty toward person. In the novel, Moncharmin and Richard, the managers of the opera house show excellent examples toward their commitment on career. They are working harder to ensure the opera performance going smoothly and ignoring Erik’s warning letter.

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.