How do your life experiences effect your view of The Phantom of the Opera?

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It makes me sympathize with Carlotta più than other people in audience usually do. I feel she is quite of tragic character, bullied and terrorized da Phantom, but in the same time she is a fighter and offers flamboyant color.

I guess when I think about this I think about Christine and her father,I Lost my dad a few years back and miss him till this giorno also I kinda understand the phantom's anguish of wanting to be loved and the battles with self loathing.

When I was 12 my parents got divorced. I had a quite bad relationship with my dad and we still can't get on well with. The following years I experienced a lot of bad things in my life (including death in the family). For almost 7 years in my life I have never had longer friendship with the kids of my age (mainly because of my appearance). I suffered from many kind of cruelty from my classmates. One of my teacher started teasing me because I'm a goth and even detto that I deserve this torture at the school because I don't want to be Friends with the "popular girls". After this I was really close to self harming. And I found the phantom of the opera. First Erik was like a soulmate for me. Later he was like a kind of replacement father figure. Later he became my guardian angel. And the phantom of the opera became much più for me than only a story. For me Erik is sacrosanct.