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Day 27 - A pairing that you loved and ended up hating?
Christine/Roule “The Phantom of the Opera”
With the black & white movies and the stage musical, Christine was set up as the damsel and Roule was clearly the hero; and when I was 12 I was willing to go with that.
Then I read the book and came to understand that The Phantom was a real man (with a name!) who hurt and loved and lived while Roule was a whinny baby who was told he couldn't have the toy he wanted.
Christine seized Raoul's arm and clutched it with a strength which no one would have suspected in so frail a creature.
"Then you were listening behind the door?"
"Yes, because I love you everything ... And I heard everything ..."
Christine entered, took off her mask with a weary movement and flung it on the table. She sighed and let her pretty head fall into her two hands. What was she thinking of? Of Raoul? No, for Raoul heard her murmur: "Poor Erik!"
At first, he thought he must be mistaken. To begin with, he was persuaded that, if any one was to be pitied, it was he, Raoul. It would have been quite natural if she had said, "Poor Raoul," after what had happened between them. But, shaking her head, she repeated: "Poor Erik!"
What had this Erik to do with Christine's sighs and why was she pitying Erik when Raoul was so unhappy?
Day 27 - A pairing that you loved and ended up hating?
Christine/Roule “The Phantom of the Opera”
With the black & white movies and the stage musical, Christine was set up as the damsel and Roule was clearly the hero; and when I was 12 I was willing to go with that.
Then I read the book and came to understand that The Phantom was a real man (with a name!) who hurt and loved and lived while Roule was a whinny baby who was told he couldn't have the toy he wanted.
Christine seized Raoul's arm and clutched it with a strength which no one would have suspected in so frail a creature.
"Then you were listening behind the door?"
"Yes, because I love you everything ... And I heard everything ..."
Christine entered, took off her mask with a weary movement and flung it on the table. She sighed and let her pretty head fall into her two hands. What was she thinking of? Of Raoul? No, for Raoul heard her murmur: "Poor Erik!"
At first, he thought he must be mistaken. To begin with, he was persuaded that, if any one was to be pitied, it was he, Raoul. It would have been quite natural if she had said, "Poor Raoul," after what had happened between them. But, shaking her head, she repeated: "Poor Erik!"
What had this Erik to do with Christine's sighs and why was she pitying Erik when Raoul was so unhappy?
