The Phantom of the Opera

Synopsis

The Phantom of the Opera is a Gothic novel by Gaston Leroux. Christine a girl who sings chorus in the Paris Opera house, hear and start talking with a heavenly voice. The voice belongs to Erik, a mentally disturbed musical genius and one of the architects of the opera house. In spite of his deformed face, he starts loving Christine. Meanwhile Christine’s old childhood friend and lover Raoul enters the opera house and coming to know about Erik.

Erik kidnaps Christine and asking for her love. Christine gets attracted to her abductor and falls in love. Erik wearing a mask and ask her to remove it. Christine looks at the deformed face and thinks there is another mask and trying to remove. Erik asks her to love and threatens to kill Raoul who is under his custody while trying to defeat the kidnap.

To save Raoul, he agrees to be living bride of Erik and giving commitment to bury him after his death. As committed, Raoul is saved by Erik and Christine kisses Erik after removing his mask. Days after Erik dies of heart break and Christine buries him.

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