Christine originally started at the Paris Opera House as a ballerina but was needed to fill in for
Carlotta when she was ill and then became an opera singer. Christine’s conflict in the story is choosing between her childhood best friend Raoul or the Opera Ghost Erik when the ghost kidnaps her. Christine is the protagonist because she encounters a major decision when dealing with her conflict.
One of the antagonists is the Opera Ghost (Erik). Most of the people in the Paris Opera house know him as the Opera Ghost. He gives Christine singing lessons and …show more content…
In 1890 he became a full time journalist. In the early 1900’s he began writing novels. His first success was Le
Mystère de la chambre jaune, or the Mystery of the Yellow Room. The Phantom of the Opera appeared before publication and only recived moderate sales. It did not become internationally successful until Andrew Lloyd Webber made a musical of it. Leroux died April 16, 1927 in Nice,
France.
Leroux’s writing style is ancient. All of his books were written in the late 1800’s or early 1900’s so at the time his writing was considered modern but compared to today his writing is not how writing is today. Most of his books are creative horror stories. Leroux does use great amount of dialect, and without it you wouldn’t truly be able to understand the characters. You learn most of the characters thought and feelings through their dialect. Without it there wouldn’t be as much of a story line.
Leroux says that the story is based on a real ghost story of a Paris Opera House. There was a mysterious death of a signer. The story started to include supernatural elements and the Phantom.
Leroux put I the prologue of the book that the ghost was real and that the events didn’t go