little worth talking about that you can ‟t see it side-face; and the absence of
that nose is a horrible thing to look at. All the hair he has is three or four long dark locks on his forehead and behind his ears
”p.9. The evidence shows how horrible the appearance of Eric is. It makes other
people thought that whatever Eric did were horrible things. He also hated everybody because of their action. This condition built Eric
‟s personality as a hateful person.
After falling in love with Christine, Eric wanted to try his new life as normal as everybody else. Eric dreamed to have a wife like other people. He wanted to
have a happy family like other people, too. He realized that people did not like him, so Eric hid his whole life but not for his love, Christine. He wanted to come
out from his cell. Eric dreamed of having such a normal life like other people. He was so poor, because one of his promises was only wanted to have a normal life,
as free as he let Christine go with Raoul and he died in his own cell. “I want to live like everybody else. I want to have a wife like everybody
else and to take her out on Sundays. I have invented a mask that makes me look like anybody. People will not even turn run in the streets. You will be
the happiest of women
”p.215. This quotation showed that he wanted to do everything for Christine, even if
he had to change his appearance. He tried to change everything because he thought that people did not like him and Christine did not like him, either. He had
to change his physical appearance in order to change their life.
b. Selfish
Eric was a selfish person. He only cared about himself, he tried to possess his money and the box five the place to perform in the Opera House. People did
not know much about Eric ‟s life, they only knew that Eric was the Opera ghost.
He was a selfish man because he forced the manager in Opera House to give all of the money to him and he would not share the box five in the opera house.
“I have now received a reply from those gentlemen to my letter asking for an explanation, and this reply proves that you know all about my
memorandum book and, consequently that you are treating me with outrageous contempt. If you wish to live in peace, you must not begin by
takin away my privatebox
” p.36.
Eric showed that he was a selfish man in the climax of the story. Eric knew that Christine did not love him but he kidnapped Christine and forced her to marry
him. Eric did not care of Christine ‟s feeling only, but he also did something cruel
in order to possess that girl. In fact, Christine tried to kill herself and Eric was angry so he asked her not to try again.
Eric‟s love to Christine is great, he always thought of how to possess Christine. His love was selfish because he never
thought about how to make his lover live happily with him. Instead, he forced his lover to be with him.
“I tried to commit suicide The monster went out last night, after carrying me here fainting and half chloroformed. He was going to his banker, so he
said... When he returned he found me with my face covered with blood...I had tried to kill myself by striking my forehead against the walls
” p.218.
c. Cruel
Eric was a cruel person because he killed somebody. Eric was unable to live a normal life because of his disfigurement and he had to live underground to be
hidden away from people. Eric was not a sociable person so he did not have friends in the society because he lived alone and struggled for a long time. He
could kill somebody with no pain. What he knew was only how to survive his life.
“Joseph Buquet is dead”“It‟s the ghost” little Giry blurted, as though in spite of herself; but she at once corrected herself, with her hands pressed to
her mouth: “No, no—I did‟t say it—I did‟t say it—p.140
The evidence showed that the speaker was so scared of the ghost. They all knew that the killer was Eric the Ghost.
Eric planned to kill so many people, Eric expressed his wish to marry Christine and live as a comfortable bourgeois life after his work had been
completed. He had stored a massive supply of gun power under the opera, and should she refuse his offer. He planned to explodee everything including them.
“She told us in a few hurried words that Erik had gone quite mad with love and that he had decided to kill everybody and himself with everybody if she
did not consent to become his wife ” p.216-217.
2. Christine Daeé
Christine Daeé is also the protagonistt or main character in the story because Christine is the center character that connects the relationship between Eric and
Raoul. Their relationship is triangle love relationship. Christine was an upcoming opera singer who received music lesson from the ghost of Eric. She is young,
beautiful, and sympathetic who could sing like an angel. Christine believes in the angel of music. She cannot stand on herself because she always depends on
somebody else like her Father, Music of angel and Raoul.
a. Innocent
Christine Daeé is a very innocent girl. She believes that when her father died, he had promised her that from Heaven, he will send the angel of music to
her. Unfortunately, she believes that the angel of music is Eric, because he is the teacher of her music lesson in the Opera House. At first, she wonders of the music
