Phantom of the Opera

The opera is majestically shown in the Majestic Theater.

It also is the culprit for the tears and depression of most of my girl colleagues, who is desperately sympathized with the Phantom.

I, shedding the fewest tears, do not feel the same way.

The ending of the opera, when the phantom lets go of Christine, sinking deep in his own abyss of pain and loneliness, does not at  all seem to me so depressing. 

Why not? To me: 

Just like the ancient character Oedipus can be taken as one feature of human nature in modern psychology, Christine and the Phantom are two features of human nature. They are of the opposite quality existing in one person. I have seen many people who have the purity, beauty, and loving nature, side by side with the dark, ugly, and evil aspect--- the Christine and the Phantom in one body---struggling to dominate.

In the opera, Christine is developing her singing talent with the help of the Phantom, who, paradoxically, may be Muse here. Then, she is seized by the dark soul of the Phantom, whose terrifying sense of possessing being revealed. Admiration soon turns into terror and disgust. Christine wants to run away, to dodge the phantom. But can she? No. All kinds of struggling are tried, but in vain.  

The breakthrough comes only when she has to choose between the life of her beloved one and kissing the terrifying phantom. Christine bravely chooses the latter. She bravely chooses to face the biggest terror of her life---may be seen as the dark part of the person in whom they both live. She is then released and gets her freedom of having a normal happy human life...

We all kind of want to expand the angel of us so much so that we may easily be seized by the devil who is just the same and opposite of the angel. We should come down to earth, to love the real human being to face this terrible truth of us to get rid of the complex and thus to have a normal human life with modest, down-to-earth way of existing, thus the peace of mind ever after.

I am really happy for Christine to successfully get rid of the phantom.