Phantom of the Opera Eriks Beauty and Ugliness

A detailed Summary of Phantom of the Opera Eriks Beauty and Ugliness

In the novel, Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux, we are introduced to a character

known to everyone as the mysterious Opera Ghost. His character in this book is very complex.

Although the Opera Ghost is very ugly physically and mentally, through his actions, we can find

During the masked ball we are given, what the reader believes at the time, a very good

physical description of the Opera Ghost. At the masked ball the Opera Ghost does a perfect job

imitating death. "The Grim Reaper himself must have posed for it," the on looking crowd would

comment. But the hideous thing that he wears upon his head is, in fact, only a mask. What he

hides underneath the mask is more wretched than anything imaginable to men. The Opera Ghost

physical pain, but a torture in which a victim would go mad, and in their madness, they would kill

dressing room. He starts to hear a beautiful sound that seems to coming all around him. He sees

never let him kiss her, she would throw his mask at him and run away,"(263). Poor Erik's life

themselves. On the outside of each one of these chambers there is a place the Opera watches his

say, 'poor, unhappy Erik' and from then on I was only a poor dog,"(263). "I (Erik), told her that

extremes at once,"(103), Raoul tells, without knowing of the ugliness of the character from which

felt her tears dropping on my forehead..., I took off my mask and she didn't die..., I then heard her

as, "Made up entirely of death,"(138). He was so disgustingly ugly that,

Approximate Word count = 517
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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