Some Afterthoughts

There’s no denying that Mr. Gaston Leroux successfully catches my mind! His descriptions of the incidents are of a suspense style, his descriptions of the inner feelings of the characters are of magical power of arousing readers’ empathy, and his descriptions of the constructions are of magnificent majesty!

Compared with the famous adapted musical drama, Raoul appeared less like a Captain Phoebus, a stupid but handsome guy who abused his power, but more like a Armand Duval, a sensitive child hurt by the vague and hesitating attitude of his beloved one. Christine appeared less charming and pitiable, but more cowardly and mysterious. The changes of feelings of characters may possibly come from the changes of the descriptive angle, as more attention was drawn to Raoul rather than Christine in this novel.

In the musical drama, I thought Raoul nothing but a nobleman thinking if he loved a woman, that woman must love him too, which made me disgusting and compare Vicomte Raoul with Phoebus, the arrogant captain of easy virtue who should win the beautiful maid Esmeralda’s heart. Such comparison makes me feel Christine more pitiable and attracting, but her love is blind and her lover is unworthy of it. But when I read this fiction, I realized that Raoul was a considerate lover as well as a steadfast man, respecting her lover’s thoughts instead of being particular about her social status. As for his actions that hurt Christine, they were just out of the consideration of her safety, for he knew that such an “angel of music” was a deception of a devil that may possibly tempt Christine to death. The sensitive child was yearning for Christine’s love, just as Armand Duval yearning for Camille’s love. Both of them were loveable, and they also won their lovers’ admiration, but also because of this kind of character, tragedies occurred between them. I have thought about more than once that what if the phantom was the lover of Raoul. The phantom was thirsty of others’ love and attendance, which can be easily gained from Raoul. If Raoul were with the phantom, he would get his fantastic experience of the angel of music, and would care for the pitiable phantom heart and soul, which may make every three of them happy, since Christine didn’t want to get married or engaged at all!

However, tragedy is tragedy, and my fantasy may embarrass the men. Let me continue to read the book and find more different interesting settings from the musical drama!

2016-06-20

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