Phantom of the Opera Eriks Beauty and Ugliness

In the novel, Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux, we are introduced to a character known to everyone as the mysterious Opera Ghost. His character in this book is very complex. Although the Opera Ghost is very ugly physically and mentally, through his actions, we can find much beauty. During the masked ball we are given, what the reader believes at the time, a very good physical description of the Opera Ghost. At the …showed first 75 words of 532 total…

…showed last 75 words of 532 total…enemy, Viscount Raoul de Chagny. “I(Opera Ghost), felt her tears dropping on my forehead..., I took off my mask and she didn’t die..., I then heard her say, ‘poor, unhappy Erik’ and from then on I was only a poor dog,”(263). “I (Erik), told her that she could marry her young man..., it was like cutting my own heart into little pieces,”(264). Through Erik’s selfless love for Christine we find his beauty.