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⌈ Secret Post #815 ⌋

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[but why not the men?]

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I agree that the relationship of Erik and Christine is fucked up. However, to say that Erik doesn't love her? Wrong, he loves her. But it's more like what would happen if Boo Radley fell in love with someone, he wouldn't know how to react to the crush or the person. Or, it could just be what happens when someone loves someone too much. Would you accuse Othello of not loving Desdemona? No, I think, the problem was that he loved her too much, in his own words, he was "one that loved not wisely but too well... not easily jealous [ok, in Erik's case, very easily jealous], but being wrought perplex'd in the extreme" (Othello V.II). Yes, it is the mark of maturity and of respect to be able to admit that someone doesn't love you and to let them go. But love? It is more the mark of love to drown oneself in the Seine if turned down by what one believes is one's true love than to continue on or to leave town so as to never have one's shame be seen by one's townfolk again, either way to essentially remove oneself from the picture. Please remember the time and place as well. These were all (with the exception of Raoul who is new to the scene) people who had been raised on theatricality. For crying out loud, this is the same generation (the older ones of them at least) that died or got exiled on the barricades in the Bloody Week because it became apparent that the Third Republic was coming to kill the Commune. Though not the same idea exactly, it is the same theatricality that prompted Erik to threaten Raoul's life and the lives of the Opera House above.

That being said, Erik does have his issues, one of which includes his thought that he's never going to get anyone to even like him on his own merits. Therefore, he behaves in childish way a lot (The way he says, things like "Erik didn't do it," as the Persian is trying to sort out what Erik's done exactly.) Erik does need someone who can be both a parent to him when he needs it and a lover. (Think like Angela Lansbury's Mrs. Lovett to her Sweeney Todd). He also needs someone who can be delighted by his geeking out over tech stuff, or to swat him over the head when he gets too carried away with it. Christine is a petite prima donna: she can't do any of this (lending, of course, the fact that she's sixteen and probably was never expecting to have to deal with Erik). But their match is so bad for both of them that it's not even funny. Christine and Raoul are a better match, and should go off their way and be annoying little creatures together if they want, like a melodramatic Jane and Bingley, with less personality! I personally ship either book!Erik/movie!Mme. Giry, or various other ships, but think that Erik deserves someone with a lot more willpower and personality and a firmer head on his or her shoulders than Christine. Erik's tragedy is that he couldn't chose to have his crush on someone - anyone for that matter - else.