STORY MAP OF PHANTOM OF OPERA

TITLE CHARACTERS AND

THEIR

ROLE
The Phantom Opera.

Almost certainly qualifies as a candidate Erik

for the title of the least-read novel
Erik, otherwise known as the Phantom, is the
whose story is best-known. Thanks to a
tragic titular character of the novel. He is
never-ending supply of adaptations into
physically deformed and may be interpreted
other media, it would be almost
either as a tragic hero or a tragic villain. Erik
impossible to find any person who can’t
falls in love with Christine but expresses his
provide a basic summary of the book’s
feelings in harmful and at times disastrous
plot. Adaptations of the story range
manners, such as sabotaging performances
from actual operas, to silent movies, to
and taking Raoul captive.
parodies—running the gamut from Brian
DePalma’s sublime rock musical
Phantom of the Paradise to a stage
version that mashes up Leroux’s outline
with Star Wars characters (called
Phantom of the Empire).

Christine Daae

Christine is the main female protagonist of the

novel. Christine is originally from Sweden. Her
mother died while she was young; her father,
with whom she had a very close relationship,
Raoul de Chagny
died a few years later, but he passed down his
Raoul is the Viscount of Chagny and passion for music to Christine and told her
Christine's childhood friend. When they tales of an angel of music. Erik manipulates
meet years later, after Raoul watches Christine into thinking he is the angel of music,
Christine's performance at the Opera, they and is thus able to gain her trust. Christine is
fall in love, get engaged, and make plans to the love interest of both Erik and Raoul, and
elope. However, Erik, who also loves Erik's jealousy over her love for Raoul is a
Christine, grows jealous of Raoul; conflict major source of conflict throughout the nove
arises as the two men compete for her,
despite Erik's feelings being unrequited.
 Madame Giry (Mme. Giry)
Philippe de Chagny
Madame Giry is the box keeper of the
Philippe is Raoul's older brother. As
Opera. She is loyal to Erik and even
both of their parents have died,
displays fondness for him, as he leaves her
Philippe is owner of the family estate
gifts and promises to help her daughter
and wealth, and takes care of Raoul.
succeed if Madame Giry obeys him. At
He opposes Raoul and Christine's
one point, she is fired by the managers of
relationship and marriage, causing
the Opera, but she regains her position
them to keep their engagement
after Erik intervenes.
secret.

The Persian

Meg Giry Eventually the Persian was relieved of

his duties for helping Erik, but
Meg is Madame Giry's daughter. She is nonetheless he continued to receive a
Christine's friend, but she also helps pension after having moved to Paris to
her mother in doing Erik's bidding. She keep an eye on Erik. He is skeptical of
is described as being relatively self- Erik's promise to do no more harm and
centered, with black eyes and hair, and so resolves to help Raoul find Christine
a very thin body. before Erik does anything else.

Mercier
Carlotta
The acting-manager. He is involved in
the investigation of Christine's Carlotta is the spoiled and vain
disappearance. Spanish prima donna whose
performance is sabotaged by Erik. At
Erik's demand, she is replaced by
Christine.

Gabriel
Remy
The superstitious chorus master. He is
The managers' secretary. He is also also involved in the investigation of
involved in the investigation of the the disappearance of the Christine.
disappearance of the Christine.
 SETTING

Based on a series of stories and

rumors told about the Palais
Garnier, an opera house in
Exposition
Paris that remains open today.
In the prologue to the novel, There was an Opera House in France which
Gaston Leroux talks about the has seventeen floors, ten above the ground
research he did to prove that and seven under the ground. Behind and
the legend of the Phantom is under the stage, there were so many dressing
true in preparation to his rooms for the dancer and the singer, rooms
for the workers and rooms for the opera
writing. Leroux maintained that
shoes and dress. Some people say that there
he believed the phantom was
was a phantom in the Opera House. He was a
real until his death.
body without a head, or a head without a
body. He had yellow face, he had no nose and
he has black holes for eyes.
Climax

The Opera’s singer named La Carlotta was ill.

Monsieur Firmin choosed Christine Daae to sing in
the Opera House. She was a young singer from
Norway who has a good voice. Raoul, the Vicomte
de Chagny said to her brother Philippe that he Rising Action
interested with the new singer. He ever met her
Annie Sorelli run into the dressing room and said
when he was on holiday in Brittany and he fell in
that she saw the phantom in the passage.The other
love with her from that moment. Raoul came to
girl said that Joseph Buquet also saw him two days
Christine’s dressing room but Christine said that she
ago. Meg Giry forbid her friend to talk about the
didn’t know him. It made Raoul be angry and
phantom because the phantom didn’t like it. She
unhappy. A minute later, Raoul went back to the
knew about it from her mother. Meg’s mother was
door of her dressing room and he heard a man
doorkeeper for some box in the Opera House,
talking to Christine, but when he entered the room
included Box 5 which was always attended by the
there was no man there.The next day, Christine
Phantom. Sometimes she talked with the phantom
sent a letter to Raoul. She apologized to Raoul
but she never see the real body of the phantom.
because of the incident last night and she wanted to
Suddenly, Madame Giry run into dressing room
meet him. After that meeting Christine doesn’t sing
and said that Joseph Buquet died an hour ago with
in the Opera House. Two days before the Opera
a rope around his neck.
opens again, Raoul got a letter from Christine. She
said that she wanted to meet him in tenth floor of One day, the Opera House had new directors,
the Opera House. After they meet, Christine Monsieur Armand Moncharmin and Monsieeur
explains to him that the Phantom took her to his Firmin Richard. The new directors didn’t believe
house in under the Opera yesterday. She said that about the ghost although they had received a
the Phantom was a human. His name was Erik. He letter from the phantom. The letter told about the
was very ugly but clever person. The phantom loved phantom wanted the directors to not to sell tickets
her and he wanted to marry her, so Christine in Box 5 and he also wanted 20,000 francs a month
wanted Raoul to leave her but Raoul refused it and but the directors didn’t notice the letter from
he wanted to run away with her. phantom.
Falling Action Denouement

Then Christine kissed Erik. It maked Madame Giry came to the Persian
Erik shocks and he was very happy. It was the house. She wanted the Persian to tell her
first kiss. He never get it from anyone also his about the incident a week ago. Then the
mother. Erik cried and he went down on the Persian said that the Phantom has
floor at Christine’s feet. After that Erik said to already died. He saw his body three days
Christine that she was free at that time and ago. The Persian also explained about
she could marry Raoul. Erik asked Christine to the Phantom life. After that Madame
go from his house and took Raoul and the Giry asked about Raoul and Christine,
Persian also. but he didn’t know about them. Perhaps
they took a train to the north and live a
quite, happy life together.

Lesson

One of the main moral teachings of the story is that love

between two people cannot be forced. It also highlights
the need for every human to be loved. These two
concepts meet in the form of Erik (the Phantom), who has
a fierce, one-sided and possessive love for Christine
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