Eve And Pandora
Christine makes the right decision when she unmasks Erik. In doing so, this
reveals the basis of his love; truly, he does not love her, he desires her only to fulfill
himself. In reaction to her, when his mask comes off, he declares, So I shall keep
you here!. . . . (Leroux, 123). Realizing she will not stay, he holds her back, now
that you know my hideousness, you would run away for good. . . .(123). True love
does not imprison a person underground, for love! . . . (119). Even more, after
announcing his desire for marriage, he tells Christine what will happen if she
refuses, ...answer...no, every body will be dead and buried! (211) This means that
if she chose no, he would kill everyone, more accurately, she would be the
instrument of their demise for If you turn the grasshopper...we shall all be blown up
(235). If he really loved her, he would not have reserved killing her as a last... Show
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Eve is the wife of Adam in the Bible and Pandora is the first woman in Greek
mythology. All three, these two and Christine, share a similar unmasking. Their
overall stories, although, clash over the outcome of the unmasking. Eve, ate from
a forbidden tree, corrupting her nature and dies or becomes separated from God,
deceived the Devil who spoke through a snake; Pandora, when she opens the box
that Zeus told her not to, out of curiosity, releases all the terrible evils he [Zeus]
could think of. (Genesis 3:23, Pandora p. 2) On the other hand, Christine releases
truth not evil; although, it appears as evil as it causes trouble for her and Raoul, as
a result, the truth of Erik s love comes to light. Freed from the deceptions of Erik,
she sees him for what he truly is and as Leroux has it, this allows for Christine s
eventual escape to Raoul. Unmasking Erik, first, brought pain and horror at the
revealing of truth, yet, it brought about the freedom of