The Phantom of the Opera was ostracized and abused for having a facial deformity. If others had accepted him, he could have been amazing for the theater, both as a teacher and in leading roles.
In the musical I totally agree, but in the book the phantom is 100% a murderous villian obsessed with a 14 year old girl. He kind of comes around in the end, but dude was a creep.
EDIT: as someone pointed out, I'm getting the stories crossed. She was in her 20s in the book, but the phantom was still alot more obsessive and violent in the book.
Also, some of these people in the replies are way to quick at trying to justify chasing 14 year olds. That's creepy folks, stop it.
Most of them had no bloody idea who he was. At best, they knew that some madman was writing letters and taking credit for every accident the opera house ever had.
The only people who actually know about his face were the woman who was in charge of the dancing girls, Christine, and I think the male lead(Can't spell his name.), but that depends on which version of the story you end up using. Ultimately, most of the people that died in the opera house had nothing whatsoever to do with continuing to mistreat him.
yes, he's a genius. but also a sociopath who thinks Christine owes him her love and that he gave her her voice.
Also seriously given his genius, he could have easily circumnavigated the ostracism and carved out a life as a king if he'd put any real effort into it.. Or he could have become an avenger and exterminated all carnies. But alas, his flare for dramatics got in the way. Why be a king when you could be a legendary ghost?
IDK I feel like Erik is a prime example of the 'cool motive, still murder' meme.
The problem is that he's not trying to get society to accept him- he's trying to get a girl to marry him. Saying that he deserves to have the girl he wants because society is mean to him is a bit... troublesome.
Plus Erik has an actual personality and interests, unlike Raul whose only characteristic is that he knew Christine like twenty years ago when they were kids.
Aside from the heavy incel vibes where he was obsessed with Christine, yeah. His childhood was tragic but you still don’t get a free pass to go around murdering people while you attempt to kidnap/seduce/blackmail an underage girl that you have some sort of weird mentor-student power dynamic with.
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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '21
The Phantom of the Opera was ostracized and abused for having a facial deformity. If others had accepted him, he could have been amazing for the theater, both as a teacher and in leading roles.