Romantic Love:
No matter how the world changes,love is an eternal topic.The love triangle among Erik,Christine and Raoul,is the core content of this story.It tells us a moving love story and at the same time reveals the author's mood, thus it becomes the potential theme of the works.All of these persons' love are contacted with each other which not only make the narration be authentic, but create melancholy mood. These characteristics have strong artistical influence on readers or audiences.
Next,we will analyze the artistic charm of this play from five aspects in details.
The Artistic Charm
Gothic style Romantic Love Classic image Touching Movement Enlighteng Movement：
In opera music, depict characters express the drama of conflict has a strong artistic appeal. The drama shows the theme of motivation and symphonic music idea, reflects the music of scripwriter's charm.And it is so hard not to be drawn to the melodies which suit both refined and popular tastes. (This part will be specified in next section)
The Artistic Charm
Phantom of the Opera can be said to reflect the post-modern charm of a play,first of its successful adaptation of Gaston Leroux of the original novel,not only retains the original style and make it more suitable for stage performance,enhancing the look of the work can be followed,clever play within the play,the audience hovering between reality and fantasy.
Gothic style:
With its pervading atmosphere of menace, tinged with dark humour,the Phantom of the Opera offers a unique mix of gothic horror and tragic romance .Mysterious castles, mansions, remote areas, murder, treachery, superstitions, curses, secrets...a series of gothic literary elements create a gloomy temperament for readers.And in this story, where the characters are vivid, the plot suspensive, we are mesmerised by the scriptwriter .
Enlightenment For Us：
Since we have seen the Erik's tragic destiny,we have to pay attention on it.On the one hand,we cannot decide what we are look like,but we can contral what we do.Sometimes life is cruel,it forces us to be numb and cold.And someone will choose negative actions just like the ghost of the opera.However,believe it or not,an optimistic action can bring us good fortune.On the other hand,we should take more care of others to make the world full of warmth,because living in the real world,everyone needs love.
Classic image:
As the main character of the drama,the figure of Erik fully reflects the complexity of human nature.Erik is a brilliant talent,an multi-talented aritist ,a great architect,but also a poor man who is lack of love.He is both the angel of the music and the devil who kills the innocent people.In fact,it is no other than Erik, the authentic,mysterious and dangerous man,who make this work become a canon. And such a character finally could stand in the exquisite hail of literature just like Quasimodo or Heathcliff.