Phantom of the Opera

I have watched this play recently for the first time of my life. I heard many comments about it, some negative and some positive. The main theme of the musical is the phantom’s hopeless love to christine; who is actually in love with Raoul. As many love stories turnout, there is a happy couple and the person who is left behind, in this case the Phantom. The reason i mention this play is that, there were some aspects that I felt it was related to the recent coursework. As the phantom is a person with a horrible face, he never thought to live a ordinary life as a normal person. However, because of Christine, he dreams to love a women, no different from any other normal person. Even though he is aware of the circumstances, he dreams of it. I forgot who said this, but as an old saying, the only thing differentiates a human and an animal is rather if they think logically, and the presence of a dream. This is a strong motivation to all people. Some of Neruda’s work express this, as well as Richard Wright’s “The man who was almost a man”. Because of the time the work was written; when the rights of black were not equal to white, this desire of equality can be felt during the story. They just wanted to take the opportunity to taste the forbidden fruit, which the society never gave the opportunity to. From these works, I just felt that, the human desire is universal and no different from the people in the past or the present. As many of us dream of becoming whatever they dream for, that is what motivates the person.