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 Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:43 pm
"He gestured for me to take his seat by the fire, the same, slow. rather elegant unfurling of his hand and wrist which he often drew me toward him when he sang. There was something infinitely powerful and irresistible in that movement; something that made me feel I would follow that hand even if it led me over the edge of the world."
---Christine's Thread---
Discuss her character, and the magic that comes with it.
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 3:29 pm
I honestly dislike her with a passion
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Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 5:46 pm
However far away, I will always love you.
However long I stay, I will always love you.
I believe she is a young girl who was cursed into childhood by the death of her father. She has yet to grow up after many years from her fathers death, and somehow I believe that she refused to continue aging until her father's Angel of Music came to take the role of father, and helped to raise her.
This of course was tarnished when she found out that Erik was not someone there to raise her, rather, a man in love. So, she was snapped out of childhood quickly by his, intentions. He was being sensual to a woman who he did not realize still believed herself to be the young girl telling stories in an attic of her father's. I believe she would have been a wonderful woman if only she had managed to grow herself up.
As a woman she proved childish with her indecision. When two men claimed her for their own, she just smiled ignorantly and accepted it, not realizing how horrible it could turn out to be until a man ends up hanging in the middle of a stage, or (book) an 'angel' forces her nails into his face violently, angrily misusing her fear to hurt her more.
I couldn't hate an ignorant child, however much it annoys me to know that she played along with both of them. She wasn't a scheming whore, she just didn't know her options.
Whatever words I say, I will always love you,
I will always love you.
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Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 2:32 am
I don't hate Christine at all. A sensible woman at that period would've done the same thing. What's better? A content love with someone who will provide for you, or being with someone a tad insane who you can only feel pity for? I'm pretty sure most people hate her(usually the musical version) because she didn't end up with Gerik. Boo bloody hoo.
I think she's a bit out of touch with reality because her father implanted these fantasies in her head and she never grew out of it (due to her father's death). Her naivety makes her look a little stupid, but I think she has wit and a determination to make everyone happy (hence, in the book she wanted to sing last time for Erik). In the musical version, the poor girl is torn between the two guys. She has to make the choice to turn in her angel (who will probably die if caught) or be trapped with him forever (and it's NOT going to be romantic).
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Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 2:25 pm
I agree with you guys! Christine was forced to stay in her childhood becuase of her father's death. He told her all of those stories and she believed them all. She believed that there really was an angel of music who after her father died, would come and save her. Her fther ruined her lofe by telling her those stories and by dying.
Then adding two men who both love you, Poor Christine!
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 8:36 pm
Christine, to me, is an innocent young woman who is actually a child at heart.
Her Father was the reason she was this way, and when he died she dicovered reality and was forced to become pityable little thing.
Then, Erik lifts her up from what she is. He coaxes her genious for song and then falls in love with her.
Damn. Gaston Leroux is such a smart man to have came up with such a compelling story
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Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 2:08 pm
Norofel However far away, I will always love you.
However long I stay, I will always love you.
I believe she is a young girl who was cursed into childhood by the death of her father. She has yet to grow up after many years from her fathers death, and somehow I believe that she refused to continue aging until her father's Angel of Music came to take the role of father, and helped to raise her.
This of course was tarnished when she found out that Erik was not someone there to raise her, rather, a man in love. So, she was snapped out of childhood quickly by his, intentions. He was being sensual to a woman who he did not realize still believed herself to be the young girl telling stories in an attic of her father's. I believe she would have been a wonderful woman if only she had managed to grow herself up.
As a woman she proved childish with her indecision. When two men claimed her for their own, she just smiled ignorantly and accepted it, not realizing how horrible it could turn out to be until a man ends up hanging in the middle of a stage, or (book) an 'angel' forces her nails into his face violently, angrily misusing her fear to hurt her more.
I couldn't hate an ignorant child, however much it annoys me to know that she played along with both of them. She wasn't a scheming whore, she just didn't know her options.
Whatever words I say, I will always love you,
I will always love you.
I couldn't have said it better myself. Though I do dislike her, and LOATHE Raoul.
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