

He could kill them both by the touch of a button, but he gave Christine a choice. They made their way past many traps, but in the end their fate would be decided by Erik. Raoul teamed up with the mysterious Persian (whom many people thought was the Phantom) to rescue Christine. He kidnapped Christine on stage (first - he turned off the opera lights so no one could see what he was doing - when they popped back on she was gone). He chased after them and spied on them as they talked to each other, Erik learned from this that Christine thought he was a "monster." He felt betrayed and when Christine made plans to run away with Raoul, he made sure that these plans would not go through. There he saw Christine with the Vicomte Raoul de Chagny, a man Erik had told her she could never see. Christine bargained with him to let her go to The Masquerade the opera was showcasing. Christine then unmasked him to reveal his hideous face.Įrik was enraged at Christine and said that she was not free to leave his lair. She found Erik seated at the piano playing a piece of music from his " Don Juan Triumphant". Erik's response was this "If I am, it is because man's hatred has made me so." At this Christine fainted and awoke in a bedroom filled with dresses, shoes, makeup, mirrors, etc. Erik taught and spoke to Christine through the walls of her dressing room and when she finally saw him, she was not pleased by the fact that he wasn't an "Angel" but a man, Christine was curious of why he wore a mask and finally deduced that he was in fact "The Phantom Of The Opera" that everyone was talking about. While at the opera Erik fell in love with a young singer called Christine whom believed that he was "The Angel Of Music". Joseph Bouquet had seen and talked about him freely and for this the Phantom hung him. Erik was often seen or heard by many of the opera staff and came to be known as "The Opera Ghost" or "The Phantom of The Opera", although many people who claimed to see him actually hadn't. Erik escaped this island and somehow made his way to the Paris Opera House, where here he secretly lived in the cellars (which were once used as a torture chamber). Erik was born with a rare deformity and due the scorns and jeers of mankind he went insane and had to be placed in a asylum for the criminally isane, which happened to be located on an island.
