[The Phantom of the Opera] Boundary Bridge

Enid was born in a Nordic country, a kingdom, and she was the daughter of a duke.Enid's mother was a former Parisian aristocrat, so she learned French at an early age.There are some other languages, but those are mostly related to religion.

Enid's parents didn't have a good relationship.Her father, vain, flashy, and posturing.And her mother, under the long-term cold treatment of her husband, finally became a woman who moved slowly and clumsily, as if she was born to be tortured.People who encounter mental difficulties often turn to religion, as did Enid's mother.

The poor woman had achieved eternal peace in religion, but from another point of view, it was a half-dead life-in the end, they died together when she was six years old.Both sides are convinced that they will go to heaven.

Enid didn't believe this statement. She thoughtfully comforted her parents at the end of her life, and then became the only owner of the huge Duke's mansion.In fact, she thought death might be a relief, because living must be more painful and difficult.

When the duke and his wife passed away, and the duchess was still young, the old housekeeper, Bernard Ward, became the supreme will of the duke's mansion.For him, this is not a kind of arrogance, but a kind of loyalty, because Bena firmly believes that what he is carrying out is the will of countless ancestors' honors—before the princess's surname, almost all the honors of this country have been added.

Although the most recent of them was half a century ago, the princess's parents were complacent about it but did not intend to do anything about it.However, the old housekeeper faithfully recalled the lost glory and tried to imitate everything in the past.

Now he's in charge.Bernard asked all the servants to treat the princess respectfully, but he himself was indifferent and harsh and critical everywhere.He hoped that the young and plastic lady could develop an elegant and refined life style, just like the wish he had entrusted to the Duke and Duchess before, but he could not make them implement it.He raised Enid with this belief.

In this decaying and gorgeous duke's mansion, intoxicated by the old dreams of the past, you will suddenly feel that time has stayed for 100 years - that kind of orderly and methodical aristocratic life, exquisite, elegant, charming and ridiculous, exuding a decadent taste .Everything here, everything that Bernard is obsessed with, loyal and persistent, is a silent mockery to Enid.

He raised her into a medieval portrait of a lady -- chaste, gentle and beautiful, with noble manners and elegant speech.Benar Ward was complacent about this, but he never showed this complacency in front of the princess, instead he demanded her more severely.

Not only did he persecute her himself, he even asked everyone around her to persecute her together.That depressive and almost terrifying atmosphere has enveloped the Duke's mansion heavily, and it has lasted for decades.People in the middle are either assimilated and become a part of this horrible depression, or they insist on being sober, but they can't resist, and they can only be depressed everywhere until they collapse.

Enid spent the first 17 years of her life on the brink of collapse, and books were her only solace.Whenever she couldn't refuse the reality—she was too young to resist when Bena was in power, and when she got older, she got sick and contracted a heart disease, and her frail body was even a luxury to live, she Her legs can't even support her to leave the ducal mansion shrouded in clouds - Enid's soul will take refuge in the world of books.

Those beautiful poems and rhymes, those enlightened philosophy of life made her tortured soul clear and open day by day, and the pain became more and more painful day by day.

Books comforted her and made her see herself and everything around her clearly.But the spiritual power given to her by the books could not be translated into reality, which aggravated her pain.Hugo said that a one-eyed man has more serious defects than a completely blind man, because he knows what he lacks.And this is the true portrayal of Enid's life.

She struggled day after day in her desperate destiny, with no end in sight.She became more and more beautiful, but also more and more silent and pale.Bednar kept asking her what was the matter, why she was in such a bad shape, but he would not have cared for the strange gleam in her face as she read—the splash that comes when wisdom meets a tormented soul, heralding the final The deep kind of tragedy is watching yourself die.

People often turn to religion when they encounter spiritual difficulties, as did Enid's mother.But the young princess embarked on a completely different spiritual path: what she longed for was the purest spiritual freedom from the inside out.

She hopes to get rid of the rotten air of the Duke's mansion and smell the fragrance of flowers and plants; she does not care about money and honor from the bottom of her heart, but is willing to be poor and have a healthy and ruddy face; she wants to see the most vivid in people's faces and eyes her soul, but there are puppets around her... Enid does not despise them, she sincerely sympathizes with their misfortune, and believes that many people's conditions will improve if they read the book carefully, but she does taste enough Those numb and insignificant souls.She just wants a piece of beauty and magnificence that matches her profoundness and grandeur—that will be how lucky it will be in the future, and how unfortunate it will be to meet that man named Eric.

However, before that, she saw the light of life for the first time in a place other than the book - it was not the small touch she got from the flowers and trees, but the same touch and understanding feedback from others, which turned into singing and piano sounds in the world. floating between.

Enid was hit almost immediately. When she watched the red scarf girl bouncing away, she felt so reluctant and envious.

The princess was very fond of music, which was well known in the upper class, but her heart disease prevented her from singing, and she also had some small problems with her throat.From her lips that always uttered tender words, never could there flow a song, but only a broken melody.

She sat silently in front of the piano, letting Bernard pickily measure her sitting posture, but she played with her fingers deftly.That was the only moment when the whole Duke's mansion could feel its vitality, but Enid was the only one who felt it.

The music appeared at the right time, leading her to express her heart.However, the illness of not being able to sing is buried in the bottom of my heart, which has become an unforgettable regret.

Enid couldn't love her life, but she couldn't resist it.She knew that she had a fiancé, the Grand Duke Egmont who was three or four years older than her.Even a young man, the other party is lively, handsome, and frivolous, with the common faults of the upper class, but still somewhat willful and cute.But Enid knows what the other party will become sooner or later, just like the countless cases she has witnessed-she doesn't hate Egmont, but she can't love him, just as the other party's affection for her is purely out of appearance and It's just a distant beauty.

Enid would not be angry with Egmont because she hated the marriage, there would be someone else, but when Bernard told her that the wedding would be held in a year, Enid still couldn't help feeling flustered.

It wasn't just walking from one cage to another, it meant being able to see the end of a life at a glance - a life she could never escape.She would marry someone unloving and vulgar, have a child, and then grow silent, like a mother.

She is now able to understand her mother's pain, even though she doesn't fully identify with her.But even though Enid's wisdom far surpassed her mother's, she still couldn't get rid of her own destiny. How weak her personal strength was in front of social rules, not to mention her physical condition couldn't even leave her.At that time, Enid had really thought about death.

But she didn't choose to die - this world doesn't love her, but she loves the more distant world.Enid is unwilling to give up on herself, even if the price is to continue to struggle in a painful fate for the rest of her life... How many people have spent the rest of their lives in despair and loneliness like this, or become mediocre, or die silently without saying a word , Not everyone can wait for the opportunity to change their destiny.But Enid was lucky—she waited for that chance to change her destiny.

On the eve of her wedding to the Grand Duke Egmont, the witch appeared in front of her and gave her a chance to choose.

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