Erik truly loves Christine and wants her to be happy, so he releases her from her promise and sets her free with Raoul. Erik, the Opera Ghost, dies three weeks later.
He decides that he does not want to force her to live an unhappy life with him knowing she dose not truly love him so he lets her go to with Raoul. We can also say that the Phantom wouldn't have let her go if he didn't truly love and care about her and her wellbeing.
After a while, Erik fell in love with Christine. His isolation had made him obsessive over her and he tried to drag Christine down into the depths with him, unable to comprehend her own freedom. But Christine showed Erik her kindness and love, he realized how wrong he was to hold her prisoner and sets her free.
As he returns to the his home, Gérard confronts Erik about releasing Christine. Erik refuses because he loves Christine and believes given time she would love him too.
Erik only begins an active character arc when he makes the decision to let Christine go (and even that was entirely predicated off Christine's decision to show him compassion and love).
When he returns, he finds Christine waiting for him, like "a real living fiancee" and he swore she tilted her forehead toward him, and he kissed it. Then he says he was so happy that he fell at her feet, crying, and she cries with him, calling him "poor, unhappy Erik" and taking his hand.
The day before her wedding, Christine had an affair with the Phantom, thus becoming lovers and between the two, Gustave was born. He was very close with his mother, more close with her than his stepfather. All his life, Christine told him that Raoul was his father, without revealing who his birth father was.
Relationships. She was married to Raoul but is really in love with the Phantom. She had intercourse with the Phantom one night after finding him finding in the darkness, making Gustave not Raoul's child but instead the Phantom's.
A phan favourite, Karimloo has a dedicated following, the most ardent of whom will know that he also made a cameo in the 2004 Phantom film as Christine's Father, Gustave Daaé.
Gustave Daaé II is the son of Christine Daaé and Erik (The Phantom), and the step-son of Raoul de Chagny. He first appeared in the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, Love Never Dies.
The Phantom's real name was eventually introduced into the comic strip as Kit Walker. Was Erik, the phantom in 'The Phantom of the Opera' based on a real person at all? Some sources say yes, others say no. Leroux himself claimed on his deathbed that his story was true.
What is the age difference between Erik and Christine?
Generally, stage Christine's are presented as being in their 20s while Erik frequently appears to be around 35-45 at the oldest, though older men have played the part as well.
In the original Lloyd Webber musical, there's no indication that she returned, but when Love Never Dies was written, there was a retconned reunion wherein Christine found him in hiding (the original London production specified that it was the night before her wedding to Raoul, the revised production leaves it more ...
How old was Christine when she died in Phantom of the Opera?
Ok, this is entirely false. Christine was NOT 63 years old when she died. She was thirty. She was twenty during phantom of the opera, and ten years later, making her thirty, she died at Coney island.
Christine shows him love — she's the first person in his whole entire life who does — and his heart cracks open and he feels love in return. The Phantom has to let Christine go because love has taught him to think about someone else's welfare, not just his own.
In the original novel, Leroux tells us that the phantom was born disfigured and haunts the opera house to satisfy his love of music without being seen. The 1943 film changed this explanation to say that he had acid splashed in his face.
Meg Giry is one of the fictional characters from Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera. In the story, she is Madame Giry's oldest daughter.
That troublesome plot: Christine Daae is a member of the ensemble at the Opera Populaire -- and possibly an undiagnosed sufferer of Stockholm Syndrome.
What was the age difference between Christine and the Phantom?
In the same regard, due to the Phantom's childhood connection with Madame Giry, it's also safe to say that the Phantom is at least 15-20 years older than Christine. So to recap, a 30-40-year-old man has been preying upon a 15-20-year-old girl, kidnaps her and reveals a twisted scenario of secretly marrying her.
Her unwillingness to leave him, though, is the result of both fear and pity. Raoul, who only sees Erik as a threat, does not understand Christine's attachment to her oppressor. Christine herself seems at a loss to explain it, noting that she needs external guidance to make the final decision to leave.
That's when he falls in love with Christine Daae, not because she can sing, but because she's so damn full of love that she can find it in her to give a little to this pitiful creature who has done nothing but manipulate her; because she can give up everything that makes her own life worth living to save the life of ...
And Raoul doesn't do that. He falls in love with Christine for who she is. Sure, they have mutual memories and he likes the way she sings, but his love for her is so much more than that. He wants to be with her because he loves her, not just her voice.
