She is Christine's friend, but she also helps her mother in doing Erik's bidding. At one point, she is fired by the managers of the Opera, but she regains her position after Erik intervenes. She is loyal to Erik and even displays fondness for him, as he leaves her gifts and promises to help her daughter succeed if Madame Giry obeys him.
Madame Giry is the box keeper of the Opera. He opposes Raoul and Christine's relationship and marriage, causing them to keep their engagement secret. As both of their parents have died, Philippe is owner of the family estate and wealth, and takes care of Raoul. He is rash, impatient, and often speaks his mind without considering the relationships that he has built with the people around him, particularly in regard to his brother Philippe and his lover Christine. However, Erik, who also loves Christine, grows jealous of Raoul conflict arises as the two men compete for her, despite Erik's feelings being unrequited. When they meet years later, after Raoul watches Christine's performance at the Opera, they fall in love, get engaged, and make plans to elope. Raoul is the Viscount of Chagny and Christine's childhood friend. Christine is the love interest of both Erik and Raoul, and Erik's jealousy over her love for Raoul is a major source of conflict throughout the novel. Erik manipulates Christine into thinking he is the angel of music, and is thus able to gain her trust. Her mother died while she was young her father, with whom she had a very close relationship, died a few years later, but he passed down his passion for music to Christine and told her tales of an angel of music. Christine DaaeĬhristine is the main female protagonist of the novel. He is childish and gives the impression that he is usually one to have things his way (a tendency that is evident in Raoul as well). Erik falls in love with Christine but expresses his feelings in harmful and at times disastrous manners, such as sabotaging performances and taking Raoul captive. He is physically deformed and may be interpreted either as a tragic hero or a tragic villain. However, in the musical adaptations, she is older, curvy, more beautiful, blonde, with blue eyes and she is Madame Giry's only daughter.Erik, otherwise known as the Phantom, is the tragic titular character of the novel.
In the original novel, Meg looks completely different than she does in Lloyd Webber's adaptations: In the novel is described as a 15 year-old teenager (being the eldest of Madame Giry's daughters) with "eyes black as sloes, hair black as ink, a swarthy complexion and a poor little skin tretched over poor little bones". In Lloyd Webber's adaptations, this personality is only shown in the sequel when Meg becomes jealous of both: Christine and her child Gustave and does anything in her hands to surpass them, even if murder has to do it. In the original novel, Meg is unlike the musical adaptiation, but more like the sequel makes look: Unlike the musical, she has always been an attention-seeker and it is never revealed that she befriends Christine Daaé.
Despite feeling remorse of this, she just leaves the docks with her mother leaving The Phantom, Gustave and the dying Christine, who confesses him who his real father is. After hearing this, in a blind rage Meg shoots at Christine leaving her deadly wounded. Then The Phantom tells her to stop, not to make the same mistakes he did, "not everyone can be Christine". After being cornered by the trio, Meg proceeds leaving Gustave alone but not before attempting to commit suicide. And part of this happens because Gustave has a musical talent just like her mother, Christine and leaves The Phantom surprised.Īt the Final Performance in Phantasma, as Meg feared, Christine surpasses her and to prevent this to happen again with Gustave, she kidnaps him and attempts to kill him in the island's docks, but Christine, The Phantom and Madame Giry are willing to stop Meg. However, The Phantom gets more impressed by Christine than Meg. When Christine arrives to Coney Island with her new husband Raoul and their child Gustave, Meg gives them a falsely friendly welcome and doing what she can to be the best in the show. However, Meg's goodness and balance begin to fall after receiving the news that Christine Daaé (the only one who could surpass her) is coming to Coney Island, the place where Phantasma is being presented and that leaves her paranoid knowing that her place as a celebrity would be ruined. After the events at The Opera House in Paris, Meg works with her mother for The Phantom's project Phantasma and Meg dreams with being a superstar in the project.