Using this accident paired with rumors of a ghost in that same opera house, Leroux wrote Le Fantôme de l'Opéra and published it in 1910, which was later published in English as The Phantom of the Opera. Leroux had heard the rumours about the time the opera house was finished, and these rumours became closely linked with the novel: Act One of the opera Helle had just finished when a fire in the roof of the opera house melted through a wire holding a counterweight for the chandelier, causing a crash that injured several and killed one. The setting of The Phantom of the Opera is the actual Paris opera house, the Palais Garnier. The novel was first published in newspapers before finally being published as a book. Because of his fascination with both Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, he wrote a detective mystery entitled The Mystery of the Yellow Room in 1907, and four years later he published Le Fantôme de l'Opéra. With his job, he was able to travel frequently, but he returned to Paris where he became a writer. At the paper, he wrote about and critiqued dramas, as well as being a courtroom reporter. Human’s personality and human desire is connected each other in which desire drives someone’s personality in making some decisions and actions.Leroux initially was going to be a lawyer, but after spending his inheritance gambling he became a reporter for L'Écho de Paris. Someone who still loves and cares with him, his id is replaced by superego and changes Erik. His id takes part his mind and influences him to realize his desire by using some actions mostly are evil actions. Because of his appearances,he is ignored by his family and people around him.
Based on the analysis, the writer draws some conclusions as follows: Erik’s love desire isĬaused by his pass experiences since he was born. The technique of the data collection is library technique and the technique of the data analysis is descriptive technique. The secondary data sources are taken from literary books, internet, articles, and other data sources related to the analysis of The Phantom of the Opera.
The primary data source is Gaston Leroux’s novel entitles The Phantom of the Opera published in 1911. In this method, the writer uses two kinds of data sources, namely primary and secondary data source. The writer uses descriptive qualitative method. The problem of the study is “How is love desire reflected in Gaston Leroux’s novel The Phantom of the Opera?The objective of the study is to analyze Gaston Leroux’s novel The Phantom of the Opera based on its structural elements and the personality of the major character based on psychoanalytic approach by Sigmund Freud.
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