Would you rather be single or be with the wrong person? In the novel The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, the Swedish singer Christine Daae is torn in a weird love triangle between two men: the handsome, rich, yet controlling and jealous Raoul, the Viscount of Chagny and the mysterious, talented, yet ugly and violent Erik, the Opera Ghost. Raoul was Christine’s childhood sweetheart and he wants to win her back. Erik is a masked man that slowly falls in love with Christine, while he hides within the Opera House and teaches Christine how to sing better. Both men are full of jealousy and would be really bad lovers so if I were Christine I would choose neither. I wouldn’t choose Erik because he is very unattractive and a serial killer; nor
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In one part of the book, Christine has the need to prove Erik wrong and show him that Raoul is nothing more than a friend, when she invited Raoul to Perros in order for Erik not to get jealous. Raoul and Erik are capable of killing out of pure anger and envy. Erik put Raoul in a torture chamber and wanted to kill him because he was jealous of his relationship with Christine. Raoul was also willing to commit murder and kill Erik just to get him out of the way and getting Christine. He threatens to kill Erik when he is talking with Christine in the roof of the Opera House. She was telling him how she was abducted by Erik. When she finished telling her story, Raoul got up and said, “I will kill him. In Heaven’s name, Christine, tell me where the dinning-room on the lake is! I must kill him!” (Leroux, 63). I don’t like jealousy. It is a toxic feeling that doesn’t disappear with time. I believe that in a relationship being slightly jealous could be healthy but being so jealous to the extent of wanting to kill the other person is extremely emotionally unhealthy. I wouldn’t like it if every time that I talk with one of my guy friends, my boyfriend would get angry at me and jealous. Being with someone who thinks like Raoul and Erik would be extremely difficult, annoying and irritating. I don’t want to feel the need of proving anything to my boyfriend in order for him to don’t feel jealous, like Christine with Erik in Perros. I want him to trust me and believe
In one part of the book, Christine has the need to prove Erik wrong and show him that Raoul is nothing more than a friend, when she invited Raoul to Perros in order for Erik not to get jealous. Raoul and Erik are capable of killing out of pure anger and envy. Erik put Raoul in a torture chamber and wanted to kill him because he was jealous of his relationship with Christine. Raoul was also willing to commit murder and kill Erik just to get him out of the way and getting Christine. He threatens to kill Erik when he is talking with Christine in the roof of the Opera House. She was telling him how she was abducted by Erik. When she finished telling her story, Raoul got up and said, “I will kill him. In Heaven’s name, Christine, tell me where the dinning-room on the lake is! I must kill him!” (Leroux, 63). I don’t like jealousy. It is a toxic feeling that doesn’t disappear with time. I believe that in a relationship being slightly jealous could be healthy but being so jealous to the extent of wanting to kill the other person is extremely emotionally unhealthy. I wouldn’t like it if every time that I talk with one of my guy friends, my boyfriend would get angry at me and jealous. Being with someone who thinks like Raoul and Erik would be extremely difficult, annoying and irritating. I don’t want to feel the need of proving anything to my boyfriend in order for him to don’t feel jealous, like Christine with Erik in Perros. I want him to trust me and believe