In the movie The Phantom of the Opera‚ you can see symbolism practically everywhere. It is a huge part of the movie‚ in my opinion. They are either very eye catching. Some were barely visible. One symbolic quote is‚ “Masquerade! Every face a different shade. Masquerade. Look around‚ there’s another mask behind you!” Throughout the movie‚ mirrors have been used as a symbolic piece. When you look into the mirror‚ you see yourself through your own eyes. What we perceive in that reflection can either
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begins explaining how one of the stagehands‚ Joseph Bouquet‚ was killed by the infamous Phantom of the Opera. After a while the Prima Donna of the Opera‚ Carlotta‚ got “sick” and needed to return home to get better‚ this incident gave Christine Daaé the chance to become the Prima Donna as she dreamed. She made a great triumph the night she made her first performance. What no one knew was that Erik‚ the Opera Ghost himself‚ was the one taught her how to sing‚ acting as the Angel of Music that Christine’s
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The Phantom of the Opera is a film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s magnificent musical. The story is about an opera ghost who drives everyone in the opera house crazy. The owner of the opera house quits and is soon followed by his lead singer. A beautiful young girl named Christine takes over the lead. She claims she has been taking lessons from a man whose name she does not know. Her secret tutor turns out to be the opera ghost. Although the original lead decides to come back‚ the opera
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The phantom of the opera is a long lived novel written by Gaston Leroux in the early 1900’s with a French background. This classic work enjoys worldwide fame as a tragic love story containing amazing special effects on film and on stage as well as stunning music. Gaston Leroux wrote the horror novel "Le Fantome de l’Opera‚" published in 1911. Leroux had heard stories of ghosts haunting the Paris Opera House and decided to base a novel around these tales. He even boasted having researched the opera
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The future ruler of United Kingdom is about to pop into this world any time soon‚ and his or her parents‚ not to mention the whole world‚ are already excited. Indeed‚ Kate Middleton and Prince William seem like the eager and loving about-to-be parents that they are that it’s almost hard to imagine that they almost didn’t end up together. Remember their controversial split in 2007? Four years after William and Kate started dating‚ the two had split in March 2007‚ not giving any reason why. Reports
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examining the libretto The Phantom of the Opera‚ the interactions and attitudes of the characters‚ and the language used‚ I will show how the Phantom’s obsession over Christine‚ although at times destructive‚ leads to his change from an evil and selfish villain‚ to a remorseful and compassionate hero. To understand the psyche of the Phantom‚ one must first have a brief overview of the play. In 1984 Andrew Lloyd Webber‚ transformed the original The Phantom of the Opera novel (written in 1911 by
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The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux Characters Erik/Opera Ghost/Phantom (P:1) the story’s main character‚ an exquisite singer who hides his disfigured face behind a mask. Erik wreaks havoc on the opera house‚ he knows everything nook and cranny and is able to hide‚ vanish‚ or move freely between walls and floors. Raoul‚ Vicomte de Chagny (P:2) is the younger brother of Philippe. He has carried a flame for Christine since their youth‚ and becomes jealous of Erik‚ who also wants to share in
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debated the what the actual climax of the play could be. The many points in which Hamlet ’s internal battle to ascertain himself into a position of determination in avenging his father ’s death befuddle Shakespeare’s audience. There are numerous points which could be asserted as the true climax‚ but which can be considered ultimately veritable? “That is the question.” We must ask ourselves this when assessing the claimed climax ’s authenticity. Websters dictionary defines a climax as (1) the turning point
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The Phantom of the Opera is a classic story in which we are presented with a character (the Phantom) and his oddities‚ and are actually given the choice whether to like him or to loathe him. In the Story the Phantom is a character who has an impaired judgment and a disfigured face from birth‚ henceforth disenabling him from distinguishing between right from wrong and coping with society’s norms. It is these mental and facial impediments coupled with his violent and gruesome choices that drive him
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Brittany Pacheco Writing 3: Opera Opera‚ starting out the Baroque period‚ stemmed from Humanism in the Renaissance era. Opera went back to wanting to make people have a emotional response to the music they were listening to through the musical devices that they used to write the music. They were becoming obsessed again with the Greek style of music however‚ they wanted to make it better and so they came up with some of their own new developments for example‚ one device they used was the stile
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