Both responses are unexpected, and thus yield unexpected result, bringing the story to completion with far greater emotional satisfaction than most narratives can boast, outside of fairy tales. Christine gives up her own happiness to save her beloved, going beyond what is required of her to offer herself as his “living bride” the Phantom responds to her offer by releasing her and Raoul, shamed by her kindness.
It’s clear from a bare summary that the dramatic turning point of the story is the final ultimatum and how the two characters respond to it. Only the compassion of Christine prevents him from killing her fiance, letting the two of them go, and thus dying alone. Maddened by jealousy, the Phantom unleashes a reign of terror upon the Opera house, before kidnapping the object of his obsession. Complications ensue when her childhood sweetheart returns to her the night of her triumphant debut and the romance is rekindled.
The Phantom of the Opera, a quintessential Gothic melodrama, tells the story of a deformed genius, rejected and hated throughout his life, who secretly tutors a gifted singer mourning the death of her father, convincing her he is the ghost of her dead father, becoming obsessed with her in the process. Phantom of the Opera and the Problem of “Shipping” Facade of the Palais Garnier, the famous opera house that inspired and provided the setting for the famous Gothic tale.
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