In phantom of the opera how did the phantoms face become disfigured?

Answer 1

It depends on which version of 'The Phantom of the Opera' you are refering to. In Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, the Phantom sings about how he was born with a skin infection...which caused a "mother's fear and loathing". So it is most recently said to have been a skin infection, except that his musical version was slightly different from the original novel by Leroux. The most commonly accepted version and theory is that the Phantom was born with a disfigured face (and body). In the 1965 movie, his face was burned by acid, and in 'Phantom of the Paradise', his face is mutilated in a record press accident, just as an example of other theories.

Answer 2

It depends on which version of 'The Phantom of the Opera' you are refering to. In Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, the Phantom sings about how he was born with a skin infection...which caused a "mother's fear and loathing". So it is most recently said to have been a skin infection, except that his musical version was slightly different from the original novel by Leroux. The most commonly accepted version and theory is that the Phantom was born with a disfigured face (and body). In the 1965 movie, his face was burned by acid, and in 'Phantom of the Paradise', his face is mutilated in a record press accident, just as an example of other theories.

Answer 3

It depends on which version of 'The Phantom of the Opera' you are refering to. In Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, the Phantom sings about how he was born with a skin infection...which caused a "mother's fear and loathing". So it is most recently said to have been a skin infection, except that his musical version was slightly different from the original novel by Leroux. The most commonly accepted version and theory is that the Phantom was born with a disfigured face (and body). In the 1965 movie, his face was burned by acid, and in 'Phantom of the Paradise', his face is mutilated in a record press accident, just as an example of other theories.

Answer 4

He was born with the deformity. It is clearly implied in the original novel as well as in the stage musical and the 2004 film based on that novel. There are many film versions that go creative on the matter, some aren't even deformed at all, but all those versions have very little to do with the original story anyway.

Answer 5

According to the movie and musical, the Phantom was born with a disfigured face. We learn this in the song "Down Once More", when the Phantom speaks of his "face that earned a mother's fear and loathing...a mask [his] first unfeeling scrap of clothing." He was put in a carnival sideshow as a very small child.

Answer 6

The Phantom did not become disfigured he was born like that. I know because in the ending, in the song Down Once More the Phantom says: This face, which earned a mother's fear and loathing ...

A mask, my first unfeeling scrap of clothing ...

Which baisicly states that he was born like that.

Answer 7

Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, the Phantom was born this way.

Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera, the phantom was tortured by gypsy as the Devil's Child.