The Vicomte Raoul De Chagny

Finally, Lee and Christine surmounted their fears of life by being with one another. Christine had always feared rejection, without Lee's love and understanding Christine would never have had her carefree

Blanche watches too, blending with the mob. Once the last nun had been martyred and the lips of her voice were silenced, Blanche bravely finished the verse of the song the nuns were singing. Blanche was then killed on the spot by the mob and Sister Marie loses the Infant King in the subsequent riot. The events of the Infant King’s journey to Paris and Sister Marie losing it mirror Blanche’s brave act of singing. Blanche had finally overcame her fear of everything.

After Raoul wins over Christine’s heart, the Phantom becomes jealous. He mimics Christine and Raoul’s love song to each other:

Villefort was the prosecutor. He had an affair with Danglar 's wife and they had an illegitimate child together. The supposedly buried it alive years earlier. Villefort 's wife Heloise is devoted to her son Edward. Villefort 's daughter from his first marriage is named Valentine. She is also in love with Maximillian Morrel, the son of the captain who helped Edmond earlier. Heloise has been posoning Valentine so that her son will inherit everything (she actually poisons and tries to poison a lot of people, but Valentine is the only one that is very important to the plot). Edmond has been slipping Valentine an antidote though so that when she "dies" is will only be a sleep from which she will awake, in very Romeo and Juliet fashion. Danglars has been trying to sell his daughter into marriage with a man that says he is a prince. As it turns out though, the "prince" is actually the illegitimate child that was saved by the man who was supposed to bury him. The count sonpored him to come in the disguise of Prince Andrea Cavoralliti. Caderousse, a crook and the only person who helped that did not beomce rich later, tried to blackamail Andrea. He then kills Caderousse. Charges are then brought against him, Villefort admits in court that he is the father. He tries to flee with his wife and son (Valentine is already "dead") only to find that his wife poisoned herself and her son. He then goes mad and

In this film, the setting of the family’s small apartment in the French Quarter of New Orleans, LA contributes to the principle themes of human cruelty and kindness by facilitating most of the interactions between the characters. While some of these interactions were insignificant, many were significant and were paramount to advancing the plot and communicating the themes. When Blanche arrives at her sister’s home for the first

Throughout history, symbols have had an overwhelming presence among citizens. The French Revolution had many symbols that represented power. Did the events leading up to the storming of the Bastille persuade the French citizens to believe that it was a symbol of power? There are many reasons why the French citizens would believe the Bastille to be a symbol of power. It was a very overwhelming stone structure, which stood robust, surrounded by small villages along with farmland. The architecture and placement of this fortress gave itself a reputation of strength and impregnation. It stood by itself, being the most intimidating structure of its time.

The Marquis de Lafayette is best remembered for the part he played in the American War of Independence. He contributed in helping the Americans gain free control over the colonies by breaking away from British home rule. For sixty years he fought with consistency and insight for political ideals and social reforms that have dominated the history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Hence, Lafayette can be attributed to the spreading of liberty and freedom throughout America and France. Therefore, he is viewed as a symbol of liberalism in a once absolutist world.

He hurts people, and does not want Christine to marry Raoul. The relationship between the Phantom and Christine is a conflict that affects how she acts towards Raoul. The phantom has instilled fear in her, for example, after the fight at the graveyard, the Phantom declared “Now let it be war upon you both!” The Phantom also had killed other people up into this point, during the production of Don Juan, the Phantom crashed the chandelier upon the audience, and then set fire to the theatre. Also, due to fear, Christine keeps their engagement secret from the world, and then upon the Phantom finding out, he reacts in a rage of fear and hatred, If she chooses Raoul, she has reasonable evidence to believe that they both should die. If the Phantom had not instilled this fear in her before, and they had not formed a rather (mean, abusive, dating) relationship, they could have reasonably worked this out between the three of them. Christine also has a relationship with Raoul, and then proceeds to become engaged to him. Their engagement becomes a source of fury to the Phantom that caused him to go into solitude and set fire to the theatre. The Phantom made her choose, to prove that she still “belonged” to the Phantom, even after her engagement to

Edna ,still saddened by Roberts departure decided to go and visit a friend of hers,Mademoiselle Reisz, to hear her play the piano when she arrived she had discovered that the woman had moved. Edna then visited Madame Lebrun's home to retrieve the address . There she was greeted by Victor who told her the contents of the letters received from Robert. Edna was sad that Robert had not written her. As victor escorted Edna out...Madame Lebrun and victor discuss how Edna had changed saying “she doesn’t seem like the same woman.”. After receiving the new address she visits the artist ,Mademoiselle Reisz, Madam is very pleased to see her and inform her that Robert had written a letter almost entirely about Edna. Edna is flattered and begs to read the letter . Robert has requested the Madame to play a song for Edna on the piano. As Edna reads the letter and listens to the music ,she is deeply moved . She weeps.After the visit Edna ask is she can visit again and The madam informs her her company is welcome anytime.

I think that it's the final scene that evokes the greatest sympathy for Blanche. Having failed in convincing her own sister, Stella, that Stanley raped her, a doctor and a matron come from an asylum to take her away. It is in this moment that Blanche is forced to realise her fantasy ending is not going to come true, and so she decides to leave with the doctor on her arm, trying her hardest to be dignified, she says,

In Lanval, one of Marie De France’s twelve Lais, she demonstrates a narrative poem about love and lust set in medieval times. Her short, romantic tale narrates a knight’s love affair with a maiden that is so beyond beautiful that she surpasses all earthly splendors. Lanval, a knight who sat at King Arthur’s Round Table, is the center of Marie’s story and is envied by all the other men and hated for his gallantry, kindness, attraction and courage. The poem’s location is based in the feudal town of Carlisle.

This lay introduces two types of love: selfish and selfless. Selfish love is not courtly love. It lacks devotion and true loyalty. It lacks suffering and self-denial. Marie de France portrays this kind of love in the old husband of the woman whom Guigemar loves. The man locks his wife away in an enclosure guarded by a castrated man. By doing this, the husband shows a mean, limited

Stella, too, is a major character who lives in a world of hopes and fantasies. Stella’s tears over her sister as Blanche was taken away at the end of play reveals that Stella’s fantasies have been crushed by Stanley’s brutality. Stella calls her sister, “Blanche! Blanche! Blanche!”(142) , as if she does not want to let go of her sister. In spite of the fact that Stanley tried to justify and to relief her, Stella knows that something acquitted and abandoned had banished. She knows that her happy and humble world and her sister’s hopes had gone. Through her fantasy world, she thinks she could keep her sister for ever, but fantasy does not always work and makes life appear as it should be rather than what reality is. Also, Blanche imagines the doctor as a gentleman who is going to rescue her from a life that she imagines it as a life that does not want to accept her. Blanche finishes the play by saying, “Whoever you are—I have always depended on the kindness of strangers” (142). Blanche’s irony is demonstrated for two reasons. First of all, the doctor is not a gentleman; he came to take her to a mental health care. Second of all, strangers are not kind to her; they are kind only for trade of sex. Instead, they feel sympathy for her for creating a world where she is the victim. Blanche never perceives stranger’s kindness as something that people take advantage of. Instead, she thinks that Stanley is the one who does not treat her well, although he wanted

She begins to ramble on more, have more delusions and lie about crazy things such as Shep Huntleigh inviting her on a cruise to the Caribbean. She begins to shower more often or “hydrotherapy” as she calls it, because it “is necessary for her probably to wash away the feeling of guilt as also the stains of her promiscuous life” (Kataria 96). As the play comes to an end, Blanche becomes more psychotic and no one is on her side. Blanche appears to swirl into oblivion towards the end of the play when a fiight with Stanley gets physical. “She finally realizes to her dismay that she has lost her reputation, a place to go to, and what is worse, her charm. This realization, painful as it is, coupled with the rape, sends her reeling into a world of shadows from which she was never really far away” (Kataria 182.)

Hours after the state has taken Blanche, Stella is on the porch bawling in Eunice 's arms. Some time has passed and the sun is now setting. The grieving sister begins to try and pull herself together but gasping sobs continue to escape her frame. Pulling herself up, she leaves Eunice's arms. Eunice slowly backs away after guiding Stella to her husband. Still sobbing, Stella glances at Stan who is leaning against the doorframe, and looks away.